Fox News’ Cavuto Destroys Devin Nunes’ Excuses For Flynn’s Lying: ‘No One Had a Gun to His Head’

Fox News is no longer such a safe space to spin for Donald Trump and his associates, as demonstrated by Neil Cavuto‘s utter destruction of every excuse Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) tried to make for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn‘s lies to the FBI.

On Friday afternoon, special counsel Robert Mueller released a rebuttal to the Flynn defense team’s sentencing memo, challenging the suggestion that Flynn had been somehow unaware that lying to the FBI was a crime when he was interviewed in January of 2017.

That subject came up on Friday afternoon’s edition of Your World with Neil Cavuto, as Nunes phoned in to parrot the Flynn team’s talking points.

First, Nunes insisted that Flynn didn’t lie, and that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn didn’t think he’d lied at the time.

Cavuto said, “I know how much you honor the guy, praise the guy, very illustrious career. But he admitted he lied, he did lie. He told investigators he lied. That’s just the reality, right?”

“Right, but it’s also called ‘entrapment,’ If he admitted he lied in the investigation…” Nunes replied.

“No one had a gun to his head, though, sir, you know what I’m saying?” Cavuto interrupted.

Nunes told Cavuto, “Neil, if somebody come see you and takes your house and all your money and your retirement and you’re out of money and the prosecutors say, ‘Well, you know, you could admit to lying,’ Neil?”

“That’s not what happened,” Cavuto said, and when he laid out the fact, Nunes was forced to say, “This is only my personal opinion.”

Nunes continued to make the bizarre excuse that Flynn pleaded guilty to lying out of financial hardship, but Cavuto pointed out that, “In early January, he was not at that stage.”

Cavuto diplomatically ended the interview by saying “We’ll watch it very, very closely.”

Not an hour before Nunes’ appearance, Shepard Smith similarly burst the bubbles of many a Flynn apologist as well by telling his audience to stop insisting Flynn didn’t lie, and “find something defensible.”

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.

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