UPDATED: In apparent shift, Trump tweets he fired Flynn for lying to FBI
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAN FABIAN AND JULIA MANCHESTER - 12/02/17 01:40 PM EST
President Trump said Saturday he had to fire Michael Flynn as national security adviser because he lied to Vice President Pence and the FBI, in an apparent shift from the reasons Trump stated at the time Flynn was fired.
Trumps changing rationale is a discrepancy that will catch the attention of prosecutors on Muellers team looking into whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation.
"I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies," Trump tweeted while traveling in New York City for fundraising events. Trump also stressed there was nothing to hide!
"It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!" he added.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/362938-in-apparent-shift-trump-tweets-he-fired-flynn-for-lying-to-fbi
update:
Dem on Trump's Flynn tweet: 'This is obstruction of justice'
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 12/02/17 01:20 PM EST
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) seized on President Trump's tweet about his former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Saturday, saying it was proof of obstruction of justice.
Link to tweet
Lieu's comments come after Trump on Saturday defended Flynn's actions during the presidential transition as "lawful," arguing there was "nothing to hide."
Link to tweet
Other vocal Trump critics seized on Trump's tweet Saturday, pointing to it as evidence of the president obstructing justice.
MORE
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/362936-dem-on-trumps-flynn-tweet-this-is-obstruction-of-justice
CanonRay
(14,135 posts)nycbos
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)lastlib
(23,364 posts)It's a bald-faced lie, and he damn well knows it, he just wants to try to bamboozle the short-memory base of his. It doesn't work with the rest of us, and it's an admission of obstruction of justice. He IS going down.
TEB
(12,947 posts)He basically just admitted to obstruction of justice
C Moon
(12,225 posts)DownriverDem
(6,235 posts)trump's moron supporters will believe every word of his lies. This nightmare we are living is beyond words.
emulatorloo
(44,268 posts)Lulu KC
(2,579 posts)"He was just kidding."
still_one
(92,497 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)johnnylol
(31 posts)michael isikoff believes at the time flynn lied to the fbi.. trump did not know even white house council did not know since sally yates never mentioned it to them...
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)The significant date is not when Flynn lied, but, rather, when he was fired. Yates had briefed the WH prior to that time.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,245 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,414 posts)kacekwl
(7,025 posts)testifying under oath on live TV. I could watch for hours.