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UPDATED 2:00 PM PT — Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018
The White House has addressee the delay to Michael Flynn’s sentencing and the crimes he has pleaded guilty to.
During the press briefing Tuesday, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said anything that happens regarding Flynn’s sentence is between him and the courts. She then wished Flynn well on behalf of the president.
Reporters then pressed Sanders on the crimes of acting as a foreign agent while in the White House. She responded by saying those had nothing to do with the president.
Sanders also blasted Flynn’s initial interview where he lied to agents. She said the FBI has clear proven bias, especially under the watch of fired Director James Comey.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, in Washington. Sanders discussed the delayed sentencing for former national security adviser Michael Flynn and other topics. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
“The things that may have taken place, again, that’s for the judge to make that determination whether he engaged in something inappropriate,” said Sanders. “What we do know that was inappropriate, by own self-admittance of James Comey, is that the FBI broke standard protocol in the way that they came in and ambushed General Flynn, and in the way that they questioned him, and in the way that they encouraged him not to have White House Counsel’s Office present, and we know that because James Comey told us that and he said the the very reason they did it…the only reason that they it…it was the Trump administration and they thought they could get away with it.”
Sanders’ comments come after the president tweeted a staunch defense of Flynn ahead of Tuesday’s hearing.
