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US President Donald Trump raged against the Flynn matter during a morning call-in interview with Fox News, during which he alleged former US President Barack Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, of being complicit in a conspiracy to cook up crime and put Flynn behind bars while also ending his candidacy in 2016 or weakening his presidency. The Obama-era FBI existed to manufacture a crime against his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, a day after the Trump administration’s Justice Department dropped all charges against the retired Army general. The White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said, “Did the FBI confront Flynn to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired”, paraphrasing internal FBI communications that were made public recently.

McEnany added, “If the FBI can target a three-star general, they can target you”. The US Justice Department dropped charges on Thursday, including one that Flynn lied to federal investigators. Trump fired him in February 2017, saying he did so because his first national security adviser lied to Vice President Mike Pence and the FBI about his contacts with Russians and his private business dealings. He said, “Sleepy Joe (the former vice president who is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee) was involved in this, also. Other people around president Obama were deeply involved, also”. Trump said, also implicated former President Barack Obama in what he agreed with a Fox host is the greatest political scandal of all time.