{"id":133966,"date":"2017-12-01T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133966"},"modified":"2017-12-01T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:08:31","slug":"flynn-to-plead-guilty-lying-to-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133966","title":{"rendered":"Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"_oneup\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-116243\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FlynnMike-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FlynnMike-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FlynnMike-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FlynnMike.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Former Trump national security adviser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\">Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI<\/a> about talk with Russian ambassador.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first plea by any of the four former advisers to President Donald Trump charged so far in the wide-ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn has been under investigation for a wide range of allegations, including his lobbying work on behalf of Turkey, but the fact that he was charged only with a single count of making false statements suggests he is cooperating with Mueller&#8217;s investigation in exchange for leniency.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Flynn was President Donald Trump&#8217;s favorite general, rapidly vaulted to prominence by his fiery speech at the 2016 Republican Convention and Trump&#8217;s decision to reward him with a plum job as his top national security aide.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn&#8217;s plunge was even faster. He was fired by Trump after just a month in the White House and left to contend with a criminal probe that led to his decision to plead guilty Friday to a single count of making false statements to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn&#8217;s decision to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation signals the role he&#8217;s likely to play in expanding efforts to unravel the possible involvement of senior Trump officials and perhaps the president himself in Russia&#8217;s meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI about talk with Russian ambassador. It&#8217;s the first plea by any of the four former advisers to President Donald Trump charged so far in the wide-ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Flynn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133983,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133966\/revisions\/133983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}