Two sentences in this article are especially provocative, and not only that, they’re erroneous. Here they are:
Trump expressed to Comey that Flynn had “serious judgment issues” when Trump learned that Flynn hadn’t told him about a phone call he received from a foreign world leader back in May 2016. The Wall Street Journal later reported that the leader in question was Russian President Vladimir Putin.
If that was true, that Putin was calling Flynn in May 2016, it would be yet more evidence of . . . collusion.
The only problem is, the Wall Street Journal article never says, suggests or hints that Putin called Flynn in 2016. What it DOES say is this: Putin called Flynn shortly after Trump’s 2017 inauguration, to congratulate Trump, and that Flynn didn’t tell the president about the call for 6 days, and the president was furious about that time gap. Flynn apparent informed Trump of Putin’s call during a lunch Trump was having with British Prime Minister Theresa May.
This article misstates both a James Comey memo and a Wall Street Journal story. A correction is necessary, TPM.