Flynn

President Trump dangled this pardon to encourage Flynn to backtrack on his pledge to cooperate with federal investigators—cooperation that might have exposed the President's own wrongdoing. And it worked.

If you can kill anyone with a criminal record who is acting erratically, that bodes poorly for Michael Flynn.

The Flynn effect is not at odds with “IQ is primarily innate” – assuming that the IQ test would be updated in this way, IQ reflects the position of an individual relative to the “average intelligence of people of the same period”.