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Jackson, Ryan[jackson.ryan@epa.gov] POLITICO Fri 12/1/2017 10:24:17 PM Mueller probe: Trump White House caught off guard by Flynn plea
No one in the White House was prepared.
Friday began with the now-routine flurry of tweets from President Donald Trump - two about the acquittal of an undocumented immigrant accused of a 2015 killing in San Francisco, one about his tax legislation. White House staffers, fresh from their in-house holiday party Thursday, prepared to welcome the press to the annual media party later in the afternoon.
There were no leaks in advance that former national security adviser Michael Flynn planned to plead guilty to a single count of lying to FBI agents - lies he told in January, after Trump took office, about his contacts with Russia's then-ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential transition last December. Flynn has promised to cooperate fully with the Mueller investigation and, according to prosecutors, says his Russia outreach was ordered by two other top members of Trump's transition team, claims that bring the probe deeper than ever into the Trump White House.
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