Trump Reacts to Memos: Comey 'Can Leak and Lie' While Flynn's Life is 'Totally Destroyed'

Source: Mediate



by Aidan McLaughlin | 6:53 am, April 20th, 2018

President Donald Trump bemoaned the treatment of his former national security adviser Michael Flynn — while bashing James Comey’s book — in a fairly existential early morning tweet on Friday.

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Flynn was fired last year, after serving a few weeks in the administration, allegedly because he misled the White House about his contacts with Russian officials.

The retired lieutenant general would go on to plead guilty to lying to the FBI about those contacts, and began cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

Comey, meanwhile, is currently on the tail-end of his media blitz to promote his new book, A Higher Loyalty, in which he details his interactions with Trump. Congress released on Thursday night 15 pages of Comey’s memos detailing those meetings.


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