Robert Mueller says FBI didn’t give Michael Flynn a reason to lie

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Friday filed court documents responding to ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn’s sentencing memorandum, in which his lawyers said he was “unguarded” during an FBI interview in 2017.

“Nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements to the FBI,” Mueller replied in the documents, ABC News reported.

His comments come in response to a filing by Flynn’s lawyers on Tuesday in which they discussed the January 2017 interview between Flynn and a pair of FBI agents.

Flynn’s team said he was not properly warned of the consequences of lying to the agents before the interview took place.

Earlier this week, a federal judge set Friday as a deadline for the government to turn over documents related to the January 2017 meeting for review — prompting Flynn’s backers and President Trump to claim the feds tricked Flynn, a retired Army general, into cooperating.

But the filing said that the agents were worried that warning Flynn “might adversely affect the rapport.”

Flynn last December pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the interview about contacts he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition.

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