Trump: I fired Flynn because of what he told Pence
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/trump-no-i-didnt-tell-flynn-to-talk-about-sanctions-with-russia.html
A defiant President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that he asked Michael Flynn to resign because of Flynn’s statements to Vice President Mike Pence.
“I fired him because of what he said to Mike Pence.”
Trump added that he had no problem with Flynn making the calls because he was “doing his job.”
Trump maintained that he asked Flynn to resign only because of the statements he made to Pence, not because they were made public in a Washington Post report.
“I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it,” he said.
“With all that being said, I think he’s a fine man.”
—>>>> He stressed that he did not think Flynn did anything wrong by talking to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Trump made mistakes like all of us would in his four years in office.
Sessions was a mistake, but in many ways I think Flynn was his biggest mistake. His one chance to stand up to the intelligence community and by abandoning him (thanks to Pence and Priebus and the GOPe) during the media storm he taught his opponents that they could win by simple hysteria.
Flynn did nothing wrong. Period. Trump threw him to the wolves and I suspect that he recognizes it was a major mistake because they never let up.
That’s didn’t throw him under the bus or to the sharks. He did the right thing....asked for his resignation....as evidenced about events to come. Letting it fester in the White House was good for no one. Media rules!!