23:54 The Trump administration is making plans to attack the credibility of Michael Flynn if he testifies against the president or his top aides, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The plan, which the Post learned of from three sources, would mark a shift in the president’s tone toward his former national security adviser, whom Trump has spoken of warmly even after he was fired from the White House and pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
The plan, which can be considered a somewhat standard legal maneuver, feeds further into speculation over what Flynn knows, as well as over what the Trump team thinks Flynn knows. According to the Post, Trump’s attorneys and advisors have been confident Flynn has no damaging evidence related to the White House team. But Flynn’s lenient plea deal has led some experts to believe he has promised information of some importance to the Mueller investigation into Russian interference with the election.
The plan to undermine Flynn’s credibility involves casting him as a liar—a task that might be made easier given lying is exactly what he’s pleaded guilty to—and as someone looking out for his own self-interest, and for the protection of his son. Flynn is expected to receive a short sentence for lying to the FBI about conversations he had with a Russian ambassador during the transition period after the 2016 election, and his son has avoided criminal charges altogether.
On Tuesday, Michael Flynn’s brother tweeted at the president that it was “[a]bout time you pardoned General Flynn who has taken the biggest fall for all of you given the illegitimacy of this confessed crime in the wake of all this corruption.” He then deleted the tweet and replaced it with a more restrained one.
Earlier in December, Trump didn’t rule out a possible pardon for Flynn, instead choosing to criticize the FBI and the Justice Department.
Many Americans have rushed to prepay their 2018 property taxes and save on their federal taxes, hoping to take advantage of a tax deduction that will be scaled back in the new tax law passed by Republicans last week, The Washington Post reports. However, the Internal Revenue Service confirmed Wednesday that taxpayers will be able to take advantage of the maneuver — but only under limited circumstances. The IRS said taxpayers can claim an additional property tax deduction when paying their 2017 taxes if they pay the tax this year and if the local tax authority has notified homeowners prior to 2018 of how much they owe in property taxes, known as a tax assessment. State and local laws vary as... 
Sources tell the Washington Post lawyers representing U.S. President Donald Trump plan to cast former national security adviser Michael Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wrongdoing. The strategy is a break from Trump’s previous sympathetic posture towards Flynn, whom the president called a “wonderful man” when Flynn was removed from his post in February, the report said. In fact, the report said, earlier this month Trump did not rule out a possible pardon for Flynn, who has recently agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Post reported. In... 
En man från Borlänge har åtalats misstänkt för allmänfarlig vårdslöshet. Han ska ha lämnat sin lägenhet utan att släcka ett par brinnande stearinljus, vilket slutade med en brand. Mannen förnekar brott. 
Lastbilschauffören från Borlänge ska ha kört åtta kilometer i timmen för fort på en plats i Hedemora kommun. Nu åtalas han misstänkt för hastighetsöverträdelse. Mannen erkänner brott. 
En kvarglömd jacka, en övervakningsfilm samt blodspår utgör bevisning mot en ung man från Falu kommun som har åtalats misstänkt för två alkoholstölder – mot samma restaurang. Den åtalade mannen förnekar båda stölderna. 
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President Donald Trump's falling popularity still had him as the second-most admired man in the world among Americans according to a Gallup poll released on Wednesday, with the top slots going to former President Barack Obama and Trump's Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, as the woman most Americans admire, according to Politico. Trump is now in a small group of incumbent presidents that failed to win the top distinction while in office after Obama beat him 17 to 14 percent to win his 10th most-admired title. Obama won the year that he was elected president along with each year he was in the White House and the first year he was out of office. Former President Dwight Eisenhower was the... 
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Israel's minister of Transportation announced that the new train station set to be built in the next few years in Jerusalem near the Western Wall will be named after United States President Donald Trump, according to The Washington Post. The station would carry 11 million tourists a year to one of Judaism's holiest sites in the Old City. Israel Katz said on Wednesday that the train station name would be a gesture to Trump who made the “courageous and historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel.” Trump officially announced on Dec. 6 to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing decades of U.S. policy and highlighting the ongoing debate about the... 
