Flynn Attorney Says She Briefed Trump On Case Amid DOJ Intervention
An attorney for the former national security adviser said in court on Tuesday she's been keeping the president in the loop even as the government has sought to drop the charges.
Updated at 4:47 p.m. ET
An attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn said she briefed President Trump and a lawyer working for him on the status of Flynn's criminal case in the past two weeks, according to statements in court on Tuesday.
The lawyer, Sidney Powell, initially told the judge she was wary of disclosing the contact because of so-called executive privilege, even though she does not work for Trump or the White House.
The disclosure emerged at an unusual hearing in which the judge presiding over Flynn's case probed
