“I feel badly for General Flynn,” the president said. I will say this: Hillary Clinton lied many times to the FBI and nothing happened to her. Flynn lied, and it’s like – it ruined his life. Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI – ‘making false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements’ about his contacts with Russia. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, told reporters on Monday it was “absurd” to suggest that Flynn’s conversation with the ambassador could have influenced Putin’s thinking.

Source: The Guardian December 04, 2017 02:09 UTC