Democratic Sen.: ‘Doesn’t Make Obvious Sense’ Why Trump Would Defend Flynn After Firing Him
On MSNBC tonight, Chris Hayes spoke with Sheldon Whitehouse––the ranking Democrat on the Senate subcommittee that brought Sally Yates to testify today. He recalled comments President Trump made about his awareness of Michael Flynn‘s actions back in February and said, “It seems plausible that he was not being truthful there.”
Hayes also brought this up:
“One of the strange mysteries here to me… is the fact that ultimately what General Flynn appears to have done was to lie to the Vice President of the United States and he was then fired by the President of the United States… and yet the conduct by the president would seem to indicate the president thinks that he was unfairly the subject of a witch hunt and bears him no animus for the fact that he lied to the vice president.”
And yes, even after Flynn was fired, Trump defended him and even said there’s a “witch hunt” against him.
Whitehouse agreed this is “peculiar behavior,” given how Flynn “lied to everybody he spoke to.”
So “this warm embrace” of Flynn from Trump, he added, is odd. Whitehouse went on to speculate:
“It suggests that there is some sensitivity to Russia in this White House that prevents them from reaching obvious conclusions, like ‘my national security advisor may be compromised, let’s firewall the guy’… I don’t know if they’re trying to send a signal to him, if they’re afraid that he is cooperating or might be cooperating and they want to kind of calm him down. I don’t know what that is all about. It doesn’t make obvious sense.”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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