Right-wing myth-making of Michael Flynn

Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, the phenomena of the president making liberals lose their marbles over rage, cuts both ways, it seems. The latest victims of TDS on the Right have begun to transform Michael Flynn, a three-star lieutenant general, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and national security adviser, into a victim of the legal system, framed and hoodwinked by the FBI.

It still remains unclear how much Flynn is actually guilty of. That Flynn’s behavior was bad doesn’t make the FBI’s less so. As my Washington Examiner colleague Quin Hillyer detailed, the FBI was unethical in laying out a perjury trap if they didn’t have a real crime to investigate.