Michael Flynn hires new lawyer, Sidney Powell, who had urged him to withdraw guilty plea in Mueller case

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Michael Flynn hires a lawyer who once urged him to withdraw guilty plea in Mueller case

President Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn has hired a new lawyer, Sidney Powell, who previously had urged him to withdraw his guilty plea to a charge filed in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Powell is a former federal prosecutor who has described Mueller and other key figures related to the federal government's probes of Russian election interference as "creeps on a mission." The news of Powell's hiring comes just days after Flynn's former attorneys, Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony of Covington & Burling, told Washington, D.C., federal Judge Emmet Sullivan in a court document that they were withdrawing as his counsel. Those lawyers wrote that Flynn had told them he "has already retained new counsel for this matter" when he fired them.as part of his plea agreement.

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