Wow

[John Dowd, a] lawyer for President Donald Trump asked for a “heads up” from former national Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s attorney as Flynn was poised to enter a cooperation agreement with prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, according to a transcript of the message made available Friday.

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The message, much of which is included in Mueller’s report, is one of the most concrete examples yet of how people close to the president apparently sought to influence those in contact with Mueller.

“This is clearly a baseless, political document designed to smear and damage the reputation of counsel and innocent people,” Dowd said in an emailed statement following the release of the transcript.

  Bloomberg

What the hell is he talking about? The document "designed to smear and damge the reputation..." is a transcript of a voicemail he left for Flynn's attorney.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered prosecutors earlier this month to make public a transcript of the voice recording, as well as transcripts of other recordings of Flynn, including conversations he had with Russian officials. Sullivan also asked prosecutors to provide portions the Mueller report that relate to Flynn -- in full, without Justice Department redactions.

Prosecutors didn’t provide any unredacted portions of the report, saying there were none that were relevant to the judge’s order.

They also said they aren’t releasing any other transcripts. They said they didn’t rely on any other recordings to establish Flynn’s guilt.

If the judge really asked for transcripts of all Flynn conversations with Russians, it probably wasn't wise to say in essence, he doesn't need them. But I'm not a lawyer.*

Flynn is awaiting sentencing in Sullivan’s court after pleading guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with former Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.

About a hundred years ago, it seems.

A partial transcript of the [Dowd] voicemail was previously made public in Mueller’s report, which described it as part of a “sequence of events could have had the potential to affect Flynn’s decision to cooperate, as well as the extent of that cooperation.”

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It was left on Nov. 22, 2017, days before Flynn formally entered his plea deal with Mueller and after Flynn’s lawyers informed the President’s legal team they could no longer have confidential conversations due to Flynn’s cooperation.

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Dowd, in his statement Friday, called the obstruction section of Mueller’s report “a baseless, political document designed to smear and damage the reputation of counsel and innocent people.”

  TPM

Dowd statement excerpt:

Glad to get that cleared up. He wasn't calling his own voicemail baseless.  This is the problem reading articles that quote pieces of things without clearly tying them to their proper references.

He claimed that Mueller “knows and his March 2019 report reflects there was no conflict of interest between counsel for the President and LtGen Flynn involving the matters under investigation as reflected in the unprecedented cooperation by the President with all Special Counsel requests including materials and testimony describing LtGen Flynn and his resignation from office.”

Unprecedented cooperation. Like refusing to be intereviewed? Declining to even answer some written questions? That kind of cooperation?

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*UPDATE: