Rigged system!
Double standard!
He alone, the best-known and most often exposed liar in American political history, can be trusted on all these things.
But our institutions are all corrupt and lying deceivers, out to betray him and the American people, who love him so.
That's his story, outright, and Breitbart's, and in varying mixtures of implicitness and explicitness it's the story of the Republican Party in the Congress.
President Trump defends Michael Flynn for lying to FBI by claiming Hillary Clinton did the same thing
Apparently the FBI never said so and even denied it.
President Trump defended his former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Monday for lying to the FBI – by bashing 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton and claiming she did the same thing.
"Hillary Clinton lied many times to the FBI, nothing happened to her," Trump told reporters at the White House.
"Flynn lied and they destroyed his life. I think it's a shame."
The Justice Department did not bring charges against Clinton over her use of a private email server while she was secretary of State, and law enforcement officials have said they do not believe Clinton misled investigators.
"We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI," then-FBI director James Comey said during congressional testimony in July 2016.
Yet Flynn, who was forced out of the White House in February after less than a month on the job, pleaded guilty last week to charges of lying to the FBI about his pre-inauguration contacts with the U.S. ambassador to Russia.
But of course Trump and his defenders claim the FBI is full of Democrat hacks out to destroy The Duce and gave Hillary a pass.
[O]n Sunday, the president condemned Mr. Comey as a liar, saying that “I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn” and that Mr. Comey had harmed the bureau and its employees.
He also accused the bureau’s agents of spending years pursing a “phony and dishonest” investigation into the email server of his 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton.
. . . .
As he sought to discredit the Russia inquiry, which he has long called a political “witch hunt,” Mr. Trump on Sunday seized on reports that Mr. Mueller had removed a veteran F.B.I. agent because he sent text messages that appeared to express views critical of Mr. Trump.
In several tweets, the president harshly criticized the agent, Peter Strzok, who had previously helped lead the 2016 investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton had mishandled classified information on her private email account.
Mr. Strzok is considered one of the bureau’s most experienced and trusted counterintelligence investigators.
“Report: ‘ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE,’” Mr. Trump said in his 10th tweet on Sunday, which by the early evening had been retweeted more than 24,000 times.
“Now it all starts to make sense!”
. . . .
The president retweeted a Twitter post urging Christopher A. Wray, the current F.B.I. director, to “clean house” at the agency.
In a statement on Sunday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he had directed Mr. Wray to “review the information available on this and other matters and promptly make any necessary changes.”
. . . .
Mr. Trump’s efforts to shift attention away from Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea began Saturday night, when he assailed the Justice Department for its handling of the Clinton email investigation and questioned the department’s dedication to living up to its name.
“Many people in our Country are asking what the ‘Justice’ Department is going to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress, deleted and ‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails?” he wrote, referring to messages that Mrs. Clinton’s lawyers had deemed unrelated to her government work.
“No justice!”
In another tweet Saturday night, Mr. Trump accused the F.B.I. of destroying Mr. Flynn’s life for his lying to agents, while letting “Crooked Hillary Clinton” off easy for what he said were her own lies to agents.
“Rigged system, or just a double standard?” he said.
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