Attorney General Sally Yates bamboozled Pence, who then bamboozled Trump into believing Flynn had been compromised by the Russians and lied about it. It was all a set up and Trump's inability to see that allowed the Obama/Biden cabal to make Trump jump for the next 2 1/2 years as they set the Russia Russia Russia hoax in place.
If Trump had told Gates to stuff it, what a different world it would be.
I disagree about that. Based on what we learned later in the public reports on the matter, by the time we got to February 2017 it was clear that Mike Flynn was retarded at best. Once the contents of the guy’s phone conversations with the Russian foreign minister were splashed all over the national media, there was no way in hell he could ever stay in the Trump administration.