The left is furious that the Trump administration settled with former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn over wrongful prosecution, agreeing to pay him $1.25 million. Flynn had sued the government, alleging that the DOJ and FBI had politically targeted him due to his association with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Mary McCord, a former DOJ prosecutor writing for MS NOW, said it was an “ominous new precedent … to settle a baseless claim of malicious prosecution.” 

But it wasn’t really a precedent. The mainstream media just pretends to ignore previous precedents by their leftist comrades in government, giving them sparse coverage. In Maricopa County, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas attempted to prosecute two Maricopa County Supervisors in the late 2000s for corruption. One of them, Don Stapley, raised about $86,000 for a campaign with no opponent, then spent most of the money on luxury personal items and vacations with his family. The prosecutions went nowhere due to cozy relationships between the judges and supervisors.

The supervisors filed bar complaints against Thomas and me — I was serving as a Special Assistant — and got Thomas disbarred. Stapley’s fellow supervisors awarded him $3.5 million of taxpayers’ money over the stress of being prosecuted. 

About the same time, they also awarded $3.75 million to the disgraced former owners of the Phoenix New Times, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, who were prosecuted shortly afterwards for facilitating ads for prostitution involving minors on Backpage.com. Larkin killed himself........

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