Reuters: “The attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn told a federal judge on Tuesday that she had raised the case with the president but asked him not to issue a pardon. ‘I spoke one time to the president about this case to inform him of the general status” of the litigation,’ Flynn’s defense counsel, Sidney Powell, told a court hearing regarding Flynn’s criminal case. ‘I never discussed this case with the president until recently, when I asked him not to issue a pardon.'”