Former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa on Tuesday shot down a bogus conspiracy theory alleging that the FBI entrapped former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and forced him to lie.
Responding to a Trump tweet from earlier in the day that accused investigators of putting "tremendous pressure" on Flynn during their talks with him, Rangappa pointed out that investigators gave Flynn multiple opportunities to correct his story, which he had to have known was false at the time.
"That's hogwash," she said in reference to Trump's tweet. "I read that 302 that was released by [special counsel Robert] Mueller's team last night, and Michael Flynn was anything but pressured into lying. In fact, the FBI agents who interviewed him reminded him of conversations that he'd had that they were asking him about that he initially did not disclose."
Despite efforts from agents to help Flynn set his story straight, however, the former national security adviser never budged.
"What is really telling is what Mueller said in the sentencing memo: That Flynn was committed to his story," Rangappa explained. "He wasn't even sweating it! He wasn't showing any signs of deception. And from a counterintelligence perspective, this is really concerning because this means that there is already a cover story that has been decided upon."
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