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Trump admits to obstruction of justice on Twitter

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johnsmith

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https://amp.businessinsider.com/trump-defends-flynn-there-was-nothing-to-hide-2017-12

President Donald Trump may have just given special counsel Robert Mueller's obstruction-of-justice investigation an inadvertent boost.

On Saturday, Trump defended his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, following news that Flynn had pled guilty to one count of making false statements to investigators during an interview in January about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the transition period.

"I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI," the president tweeted on Saturday. "He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"

Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser in February, when news surfaced that Flynn had spoken to Kislyak about US sanctions on Russia on December 29 - the same day that the sanctions were imposed by President Barack Obama.

Trump told reporters at the time that he had been forced to fire Flynn because he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about those conversations. But the White House gave no indication at the time that it knew Flynn had lied to the FBI in a January interview about those conversations - a federal crime that Flynn pleaded guilty to on Friday.

Trump's tweet on Saturday appears to indicate that Trump was aware Flynn had lied to the FBI when he departed the administration in February.
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I was expecting some interesting tweets after yesterday's news, but not this.
 
spookyduzt

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Amory

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I think he's just an idiot and is throwing in the FBI part now that it's come out. Acting like he knew about it all along and was part of why he fired him

But I don't know that that will make a difference
 
Zed

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I had to fire Bob Morton because he made a mistake. Now it's time to for me to make a mistake.
 
MasterYoshi

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Amory said:
I think he's just an idiot and is throwing in the FBI part now that it's come out. Acting like he knew about it all along and was part of why he fired him

But I don't know that that will make a difference
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The problem with this version of the truth is that he asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn after he was fired due to pressure from the press.
 
theme park joe

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No you see you can't treat the word of the president from his official twitter account that's verified as actual information! Just another TRIGGERED LIB /s
 
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