The Secrets Flynn Was Desperate to Conceal
The former national security adviser’s lies protected himself. But they also protected Trump.
Russian intelligence services intervened in the 2016 U.S. election to help elect Donald Trump. They intervened in ways that were illegal, and they intervened in ways that were clandestine. In the context of an election decided by 80,000 votes in three states, they intervened in ways that probably were decisive. Altogether, the Russian action to elect Donald Trump in 2016 ranks among the most successful intelligence operations in world history.
President Trump and his supporters dismiss these facts as “the Russia hoax,” but facts they are—facts beyond rational doubt.
Yet despite three years of investigation, much of the Trump-Russia story remains mysterious. We don’t know the Russians intervened so aggressively, and we don’t fully know .
