Flynn pushed policy for former business associate while in the White House: report

President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pushed for the administration to develop a policy that would help one of his former business associates, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

A week after the presidential inauguration, Flynn, who was working in the White House, forwarded a proposal from IP3 – a company looking to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East — and told his staff to mold it into a policy for Trump’s approval, according to the Post.

Disclosure forms showed that Flynn served as an adviser to the company from August 2016 to December 2016, ending his relationship with the firm just weeks before joining the administration.

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IP3 said in a statement that the memo did not make a specific request on the company’s behalf, and said that Flynn did not accept an offer to serve as an adviser for the company, despite Flynn’s disclosure forms showing otherwise.

A White House official told the Post that the National Security Council staff took Flynn’s apparent conflict of interest and “did their best to tamp it down.”

The report comes amid speculation Flynn is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Flynn resigned from his role as national security adviser in February.

According to multiple outlets, he is under investigation for an alleged quid pro quo with the Turkish government, in which Flynn would have been paid millions of dollars in exchange for the extradition of a Muslim cleric living in the U.S.

Congressional Democrats also allege that Flynn violated federal law by failing to report a 2015 trip to Egypt and Israel on his security clearance form.