President Donald Trump, who asked for and received then-national security adviser Michael Flynn’s resignation Monday [Feb. 14, 2017], on Wednesday defended the fired aide as “a wonderful man.”
Flynn, who had deep connections with Trump fostered throughout the 2016 campaign, was asked to resign after it became public that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence on conversations he had before moving into the White House regarding sanctions on Russia with Sergey Kislyak, the Kremlin’s man in Washington.