Michael Flynn is back under the spotlight. A series of stories have broken over the past news cycle regarding more undisclosed foreign contacts and the role his son, Michael Flynn Jr., may have played in possible Russian collusion.
Reports published this morning say that Flynn Jr. is now a subject of the federal Russia probe helmed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. NBC News is citing four current and former officials with knowledge of the matter. Flynn Jr. is known to have worked with his father’s foreign lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group. According to NBC, Flynn Jr. was heavily involved in the daily operations of his father’s firm. This included attending meetings and courting clients.
Flynn Jr. gained attention on social media during the 2016 campaign for promoting the Pizza-gate conspiracy theory on Twitter.
Identifying Flynn Jr. as a subject is a classic investigatory move by Mueller. The publicity is intended to increase pressure and compel those subjects and others to come forward and cooperate.
