US: Flynn sentencing postponed after hearing

By Michael Hernandez </p> <p>WASHINGTON (AA) – Sentencing for disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was postponed until next year Tuesday following a scathing rebuke from the judge in the case. </p> <p>In one of the most heated exchanges during Judge Emmet Sullivan's grilling of Flynn, Sullivan told the retired Army general that &quot;arguably, you sold your country out&quot;. </p> <p>&quot;I can’t hide my disgust, my disdain,&quot; Sullivan reportedly said as Flynn stood by his attorneys. </p> <p>Flynn pled guilty last year to lying to federal investigators about his contacts with Russia in January 2017 — shortly after he assumed his post in U.S. President Donald Trump's then-nascent administration.</p> <p>Flynn has since cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe into Moscow's alleged attempts to sway the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign collusion. </p> <p>If he had been sentenced Tuesday, Flynn would have been the first White House official to have been sentenced in the probe, which Trump calls a &quot;witch hunt&quot;.</p> <p>Flynn's legal team requested the delay in order to allow him additional time to cooperate with Mueller's investigation</p> <p>The former top advisor is likely to testify in a separate case in Virginia involving his former business associates. </p> <p>Responding to the latest development, the White House maintained the crimes Flynn pled to have nothing to do with the president.</p> <p>Flynn's next hearing has been set for March. </p> <p>In a separate development, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders denied reports that Trump has promised Turkish officials he would extradite Fetullah Gulen, the man Turkey blames for a failed 2016 putsch. </p> <p>&quot;The only thing he said is we would take a look at it,&quot; Sanders told reporters, adding Trump has given &quot;nothing committal at all in that process&quot;.</p> <p>Gulen and his Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) orchestrated the July 15, 2016 coup attempt which martyred 250 and injured nearly 2,200.

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