Sean Spicer’s explanation for why it took 18 days to fire Flynn defies the space-time continuum
Chris Cillizza
Here’s the most important thing: Spicer used the fact that Yates refused to enforce Trump’s travel ban as evidence that she was a ”political opponent” of the President and, therefore, that the White House was right to not simply take her word for it on Flynn.
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