Did Trump admit something he shouldn't have in his first tweet about Michael Flynn's guilty plea?
A little more than 24 hours after Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, President Trump finally took to Twitter to offer his thoughts. He may wish he hadn't.
In his first tweet on the subject since Flynn's plea, Trump argued that Flynn had no reason to lie about his actions because they weren't unlawful. But it's the first part of the tweet that caught plenty of people's attention.
“I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI,” Trump began.
Except when Trump fired Flynn on Feb. 13, Flynn's contradictory comments to the FBI on his meeting with the Russian ambassador weren't public knowledge. And the current timeline as we understand it does not suggest the White House had direct knowledge of what Flynn said at the time.
Flynn's comments to the FBI didn't come into the public domain until three days after his dismissal, on Feb. 16, when The Washington Post's Sari Horwitz and Adam Entous reported that Flynn had wrongly denied discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador:
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