WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of a voicemail that one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers left for former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lawyer in November 2017 after learning Flynn was pulling out of a joint defense agreement with the president.
The voicemail was left by John Dowd, who served as one of Trump’s personal lawyers in the Mueller investigation until Dowd resigned in March 2018. According to Robert Mueller’s report, on Nov. 22, 2017, Flynn’s counsel alerted Trump’s lawyers that Flynn was withdrawing from the joint defense agreement and could no longer share confidential information.