Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was "certainly ambushed" by federal investigators who eventually charged him with lying to the FBI over his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday, not long before Flynn was to appear for his sentencing hearing.
"We don't have expectations but certainly we have a lot of concerns," Sanders told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
"I think that the judge does as well which is why he requested additional information, particularly about the way the FBI broke every standard protocol that they have.
"We know that because of James Comey's actual comments that they threw FBI protocol out the window for one reason only, because it was the Trump administration, and they thought they could and could get away with it."
While the White House isn't arguing that Flynn was entrapped, it does argue he was ambushed, said Sanders.
"The FBI, we know, had clear political bias," said Sanders. "We've seen that time and time again. One thing we're 100 percent sure on, the president made the right decision in firing James Comey because every day we learn more and more all of the things that he did that were so far out of bounds for what the FBI director should do, and we'll see how that plays out in court today."
Sanders also slammed Comey's comments that President Donald Trump is undermining the rule of law.
"I think the last person that we will take any lecture from about the values of this country is from a self-admitted liar and leaker that we know James Comey to be," said Sanders.
"There is no doubt that he did a tremendous number of things wrong and brought outrageous corruption to the FBI, led it with a political bias that is unheard of at an agency like that."
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