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‘Lock Him Up’

The scene outside the courthouse where former National-Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
Source: Susan Walsh / AP

It’s not every day that a former White House official pleads guilty to lying to the FBI—especially when that same official once led a crowd of thousands in a rallying cry against government corruption. So on a chilly Friday morning in Washington, dozens of people gathered outside a federal courthouse to revel in Michael Flynn’s undoing.

“I’ve been telling myself if I have the chance to chant ‘Lock him up’ at Mike Flynn, I will take that chance,” Hillary Clinton. Keenan had just arrived on the scene with his wife, Marie Collins, who told me she was “just trying to see a small drop of justice in the chaos of modern American politics.”

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