Commentary: If he did nothing wrong, why did Michael Flynn lie?
by Harry Litman, Los Angeles Times
Dec 07, 2017
3 minutes
President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that he "had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI," adding, "It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"
Both halves of the tweet are jaw-dropping.
In the first half, Trump admits to knowing that Flynn, his onetime national security advisor, had already lied to the FBI at the time he pushed FBI Director James B. Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn. (The overture
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