Trump Says He Fired Michael Flynn ‘Because He Lied’ to F.B.I.
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Trump Says He Fired Michael Flynn ‘Because He Lied’ to F.B.I.
President Trump said on Saturday that he had fired Michael T. Flynn, his first national security adviser,
because he lied not just to the vice president but also to the F. B.I.
Shortly after the acting attorney general, Sally Q. Yates, told the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, in January
that Mr. Flynn might be compromised because he had misled the vice president, Mr. McGahn briefed Mr. Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The president has long asserted that he fired Mr. Flynn in February, less than a month after he took office,
because Mr. Flynn had lied to Vice President Mike Pence over whether he talked with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, about sanctions imposed on Russia by President Barack Obama.
In subsequent conversations between Mr. Trump and Mr. McGahn about whether Mr. Flynn
should be fired, Mr. Trump did not cite Mr. Flynn’s truthfulness with the F. B.I
President Trump said on Saturday that he had fired Michael T. Flynn, his first national security adviser,
because he lied not just to the vice president but also to the F. B.I.
Shortly after the acting attorney general, Sally Q. Yates, told the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, in January
that Mr. Flynn might be compromised because he had misled the vice president, Mr. McGahn briefed Mr. Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The president has long asserted that he fired Mr. Flynn in February, less than a month after he took office,
because Mr. Flynn had lied to Vice President Mike Pence over whether he talked with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, about sanctions imposed on Russia by President Barack Obama.
In subsequent conversations between Mr. Trump and Mr. McGahn about whether Mr. Flynn
should be fired, Mr. Trump did not cite Mr. Flynn’s truthfulness with the F. B.I