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Mueller Rejects Flynn’s Attempt to Portray Himself as Victim of the F.B.I.

"The Michael Cohen Sentencing Memos Are Damning for Trump"


Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, will be sentenced next week. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

By Adam Goldman

Dec. 14, 2018

WASHINGTON — The special counsel’s office rejected on Friday a suggestion from Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, that he had been tricked into lying last year to F.B.I. agents investigating Russia’s election interference and ties to Trump associates.

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The president seized on the case that Mr. Flynn made against the F.B.I. in his sentencing memo, defending him on Twitter ..

They gave General Flynn a great deal because they were embarrassed by the way he was treated - the FBI said he didn’t lie and they overrode the FBI. They want to scare everybody into making up stories that are not true by catching them in the smallest of misstatements. Sad!......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2018

.. and on Fox News. “They convinced him he did lie, and he made some kind of a deal,” Mr. Trump said of investigators on Thursday during the television interview.

That contradicts the narrative that prosecutors have described in court papers. American intelligence had picked up Mr. Flynn’s conversations on wiretaps of the ambassador as part of standard surveillance. So the F.B.I. agents had evidence that Mr. Flynn was lying when he denied asking Mr. Kislyak that Russia refrain from reacting harshly to sanctions imposed by the Obama administration over election interference. He also said he did not remember Mr. Kislyak telling him that Moscow had backed off as a result of Mr. Flynn’s request.

And prosecutors revealed on Friday how far investigators had gone during the interview to give Mr. Flynn the chance to tell the truth. At one point, the F.B.I. agents repeated portions of what he had said privately to Mr. Kislyak to jog Mr. Flynn’s memory. “But the defendant never corrected his false statements,” the prosecutors wrote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/us/politics/michael-flynn-fbi-donald-trump.html

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New tension between Flynn and Mueller as Flynn’s sentencing approaches

Flynn’s lawyers implied he was railroaded. Mueller’s team says, not so.

By Andrew [e-mail] Dec 14, 2018, 6:20pm EST
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/14/18141351/mueller-michael-flynn-sentencing-interview