President Donald Trump knew Michael Flynn was under FBI investigation for his work as a lobbyist for Turkey before he named the retired Army general his national security adviser, The New York Times reported Wednesday night.
According to the Times, it was Flynn himself who revealed the information to Trump's transition team in early January.
Trump appointed Flynn as his national security adviser despite the revelation, but Flynn resigned less than a month into the job after it became known he had talked about sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and misled Vice President Mike Pence about it.
The Times earlier this week broke the story that former FBI Director James Comey wrote in a memo from his February 14 meeting with Trump that the president had urged him to end the Flynn investigation. Comey declined to do so. He was fired this month, reportedly because he usurped the powers of then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a July press conference.
The Trump White House denies Comey's version of events.
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