WATCH: GOP Doug Collins suggests Flynn judge may have "conflict of interest" after hiring personal attorney

Appearing on Fox and Friends Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) suggested Emmett Sullivan, the Clinton appointed Judge in the Flynn case, may have a “conflict of interest.”

“I think we’re delving into areas here where the question is becoming a conflict of interest.” Colins argued “You have a judge who has implicated himself in a case now in which he is sitting at the final arbiter of what General Flynn’s decision is.”

Fox News reports Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., told “Fox & Friends” on Sunday it was an “unprecedented” step for U. S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to hire a personal attorney as an appeals court reviews his decision not to immediately grant the Justice Department’s request to dismiss its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

“He’s wanting to play every position, he wants to play the defense attorney, the prosecutor… the judge, he wants to bring in his own hearings here. This is something that’s very concerning,” Collins told co-host Griff Jenkins. “It’s no shock to me that he finally had to go get his outside counsel because he’s operating in areas right here that frankly, he needs to explain.”

Sullivan hired high-profile attorney Beth Wilkinson, after Flynn’s attorney last week filed an emergency writ of mandamus to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals seeking that the prosecution against Flynn be dismissed as the Justice Department has requested, and for Sullivan to be taken off the case.

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