Trump’s story on Flynn exit doesn’t add up, and you can bet Mueller just made a note

General Michael Flynn on Friday pled guilty to a charge of lying to FBI agents that were brought by special counsel Robert S. Mueller, and the former national security adviser to the President agreed to cooperate with ongoing investigations.

A plea bargain usually means the prosecution is going for the bigger fish.

On Saturday, President Donald Trump tweeted that he had fired his national security adviser Michael Flynn in February “because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI.”

That doesn’t add up, and it casts suspicion upon the President because, three days after Flynn was fired, Trump said at a news conference on Feb. 16 that he fired Flynn because Flynn lied to Mike Pence. There was no mention made by Trump at the time about Flynn lying to the FBI.

That could put the President in a tight spot because Mueller’s prosecutors are now undoubtedly going to pick his statement apart.

Interestingly, it’s what Flynn wasn’t charged with that offers a clue to what information Flynn may have given Mueller as ammunition to go after the very top of the Trump campaign hierarchy.

According to Steven Miller, a former anti-corruption federal prosecutor:

“This is a very narrowly drawn structural plea bargain. By virtue of a single count he can’t get more than a five-year sentence. You don’t get that unless you’re giving something serious to the government. And the number of players left are relatively small: it’s Kushner, it’s Trump Jr., it’s the Trump campaign, and it’s the President. So I think this is something that would cause all of them to be extraordinarily worried.”

He added: “It’s a neon sign that there’s massive cooperation underway by Flynn.”

While Trump now emphatically states there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia in regards to the presidential election, there’s more here than meets the public eye.

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