Bust It and Trump can Pardon....Hopefully
My guess is that Trump will never pardon Flynn because he won’t have to. Flynn will have the opportunity to withdraw his guilty plea and the charges will be dropped.
The President won’t have to Pardon. The case isn’t over yet. Normally with a plea, you waive all rights to an appeal. But, if you can show that the case was built on lies(no pun intended) or evidence was withheld, then it’s like hitting reset. Which is what is happening. Any wonder why Mueller is delaying the sentencing?
What if the President knows everything about the case and knows that Flynn was railroaded. He issues a Pardon, based on a set of documented and verifiable facts. Meaning that Mueller sent an innocent man to prison, again, and withheld evidence, which is criminal and at the very least, get him disbarred. Then that opens up a gigantic can of worms because everything is tainted after that.
I predict that Mueller will continue to string this out, until no one is paying attention and try to quietly lose his case against the General.