Blame Obama! White House Offers The Lamest Response To Flynn Charges

After President Donald Trump’s for­mer National Security Adviser Michael Flynn plead­ed guilty to lying to fed­er­al agents about his con­tacts with the Russian ambas­sador dur­ing the tran­si­tion peri­od, the White House seemed to dis­tance itself from Flynn by throw­ing for­mer President Barack Obama under the bus.

“Today, Michael Flynn, a for­mer National Security Advisor at the White House for 25 days dur­ing the Trump Administration, and a for­mer Obama admin­is­tra­tion offi­cial, entered a guilty plea to a sin­gle count of mak­ing a false state­ment to the FBI,” White House lawyer Ty Cobb said in a state­ment on Friday, per press pool reports.

The state­ment con­tin­ued, “The false state­ments involved mir­ror the false state­ments to White House offi­cials which result­ed in his res­ig­na­tion in February of this year. Nothing about the guilty plea or the charge impli­cates any­one oth­er than Mr. Flynn. The con­clu­sion of this phase of the Special Counsel’s work demon­strates again that the Special Counsel is mov­ing with all delib­er­ate speed and clears the way for a prompt and rea­son­able con­clu­sion.“https://​www​.salon​.com/​2​0​1​7​/​1​2​/​0​1​/​b​l​a​m​e​-​o​b​a​m​a​-​w​h​i​t​e​-​h​o​u​s​e​-​o​f​f​e​r​s​-​l​a​m​e​s​t​-​r​e​s​p​o​n​s​e​-​t​o​-​f​l​y​nn/