Schiff: ‘No Amount of Shifting Blame’ Towards Obama Lets Trump off the Hook for Flynn

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SCHIFF: "Well, I think it follows the pattern of the Trump Administration which is to blame Obama for everything and every mistake they made. The reality is he was fired by the Obama Administration. And I haven’t seen the security forms that he filled out to determine whether General Flynn in fact filled them out accurately and disclosed these trips. If he didn’t, that’s another problem for General Flynn. But none of this lets the Trump Administration off the hook for not doing adequate vetting. They obviously knew about this trip to Russia. And I’ll tell you, when I read this op-ed that Flynn wrote right around the time of the election urging the United States to hand over Gulen to Erdogan, this clerk that lives in Pennsylvania, that struck me as so peculiar and so odd. Now we know why. He was paid essentially over half a million dollars to write op-eds like that one. There should have been red flags going up during the vetting process. And no amount of shifting blame towards Barack Obama lets the administration off the hook for this. But it obviously is also adding to the troubles for General Flynn."