Powell Said He Pressed Flynn to Testify to a Knowing FARA Lie. That Is Her Claim.

Allegation In October 2019 and January 2020, The Federalist reported Powell’s claim that Van Grack “was determined that Mr. Flynn would testify in the Rafiekian case that he had knowingly signed a false FARA registration,” and that when Flynn would not, the government treated him as a co-conspirator and put Michael Flynn Jr. on a witness list. Powell’s later supplemental brief (ECF 153) walks November 27–29, 2017, emails: Van Grack sent proposed plea papers; a November 29 redline, she wrote, deleted “as he then and there knew” from the FARA false-statement language.

A redline in a defense exhibit is a document. Powell’s charge that he then demanded Flynn testify to knowledge Flynn had refused to admit is her advocacy. The Federalist’s “asked my client to lie” line is the outlet repeating Powell. It is not a jury verdict that Van Grack suborned perjury.

The January 15, 2020, Federalist piece also quotes Van Grack at the December 18, 2018, sentencing: that Flynn “has held nothing back” in cooperation. Record both the praise and the later fight. Do not pick one.