Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley reacted to unsealed documents related to the investigation of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, calling it “shameful.”
“There is so much to unpack with the new info on Gen. Flynn,” Haley tweeted. “The most upsetting is how calculated it was. Letting Gen. Flynn off is not enough. People need to pay for this and the FBI needs to answer to how the public can have confidence that it will never happen again. Shameful.”
There is so much to unpack with the new info on Gen. Flynn. The most upsetting is how calculated it was. Letting Gen. Flynn off is not enough. People need to pay for this and the FBI needs to answer to how the public can have confidence that it will never happen again. Shameful.
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) April 30, 2020
The unsealed records showed FBI officials discussing the possibility of prosecuting Flynn, Trump’s onetime national security adviser, for lying about communications with Russians.
“I agreed yesterday that we shouldn’t show Flynn [REDACTED] if he didn’t admit,” but “I thought about it last night and I believe we should rethink this,” an FBI official wrote. “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Haley was joined in her outrage by many other conservative news personalities immediately following the release of the document.
“I’ve been in D.C. most of my life — in and around government and family work for the government,” Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News program Wednesday evening. “The idea that our top law enforcement agency would set someone up like this, so boldly. … I find that really shocking.”
“This is just one of the most corrupt things I’ve ever seen in my life and one of the scariest,” he added. “How is this not a crime?”
Fox News contributor Dan Bongino tweeted: “The only person on the planet who thinks [former FBI Director James] Comey is a decent human being is Comey. We now know what a corrupt piece of garbage he is. What he did to Flynn was absolutely grotesque. He’s filth.”
The only person on the planet who thinks Comey is a decent human being is Comey. We now know what a corrupt piece of garbage he is. What he did to Flynn was absolutely grotesque. He’s filth.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) April 29, 2020
“Those who have been skeptical of the case against General Flynn from day 1 and been calling it an evil, politically motivated injustice were right,” radio host and former CIA analyst Buck Sexton tweeted. “The multi-billion dollar media apparatus that defamed and tried to ruin Flynn out of partisan spite were wrong. Never forget it.”
Those who have been skeptical of the case against General Flynn from day 1 and been calling it an evil, politically motivated injustice were right
The multi-billion dollar media apparatus that defamed and tried to ruin Flynn out of partisan spite were wrong
Never forget it
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 30, 2020
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham viewed the news as proof Flynn was “railroaded.”
“It’s pretty apparent to me that General Flynn was a victim of an out of control Department of Justice,” Graham tweeted. “He basically got railroaded. It’s pretty widely known the Obama Administration did not have much use for General Flynn.”
It’s pretty apparent to me that General Flynn was a victim of an out of control Department of Justice.
He basically got railroaded.
It’s pretty widely known the Obama Administration did not have much use for General Flynn.https://t.co/LyVvcUPB6A
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) April 30, 2020
