A federal judge on Thursday released the audio of a voicemail that then-Trump attorney John Dowd left in late 2017 asking lawyers for former national security adviser Michael Flynn for a “heads-up” if he knew of information implicating President Trump.
Special counsel Robert Mueller examined the November 2017 message in his obstruction of justice inquiry. Dowd left the voicemail for Flynn’s then-attorney Robert Kelner after they withdrew from the joint defense agreement with Trump’s attorneys.
In it, Dowd asks Flynn’s attorney’s for a “heads-up” if there is information that “implicates the president.” Dowd also reminds the lawyers that Trump’s “feelings” toward Flynn, a former campaign adviser, still remain.
“I understand that you can’t join the defense; so that’s one thing. If, on the other hand, we have — there’s information that implicates the president, then we’ve got a national security issue, or maybe a national security issue,” Dowd says, according to the recording. “We need some kind of heads-up.”
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Judge Emmet Sullivan had obtained the audio from federal prosecutors through a prior court order and has now made it publicly available.
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