Trump tweets about Flynn over a dozen times, rips Comey after documents revealed
Trump's social media blitz about Flynn, Comey and the FBI came as his administration continues to grapple with the economic strife and rising death toll caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Michael Flynn, former U.S. national security adviser, exits federal court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 24, 2019.sent more than a dozen tweets and retweets Thursday supporting his former national security advisor and convicted felon Michael Flynn, while decrying the FBI's handling of his criminal case.
"What happened to General Michael Flynn, a war hero, should never be allowed to happen to a citizen of the United States again!" Trump tweeted.Trump fired Comey in May 2017 and later told NBC's Lester Holt that the Russia probe was on his mind when he decided to terminate Comey. As a result, then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump's social media blitz about Flynn, Comey and the FBI, which he has complained about for years, came as his administration continues to grapple with the economic strife and rising death toll caused by the coronavirus pandemic. More than 1 million people in the United States have tested positive for Covid-19, and nearly 61,000 have been killed by the disease,
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