By Esme Cribb:
On Wednesday, Trump launched a broadside against one of his favorite targets: the media.
He called Flynn “a wonderful man” during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and blamed the press for treating Flynn “so badly.”
“I think he’s been treated very, very unfairly by the media, as I call it the fake media, in many cases, and I think it is really a sad thing he was treated so badly,” the President said. “I think that it is very, very unfair what’s happened to General Flynn.”
Trump’s comments stood in stark contrast to his spokesman’s explanation for Flynn’s departure. On Tuesday afternoon, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Trump asked Flynn to resign “based on a trust issue” rather than any media treatment.
“The President was very concerned that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others,” Spicer said. “The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led the President to ask for General Flynn’s resignation.”
The Full Story (February 15, 2017)
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