Shortly after former President Donald Trump won the 2016 election, his incoming national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn had several phone calls with then-Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. The contents of that phone call, which should have been classified, were leaked to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who wrote a column about the phone calls implicating impropriety.
It ended up looking like someone from the Obama administration leaked the phone call to hamstring the incoming Trump administration by suggesting Flynn was breaking the law. The Ignatius column, as noted by The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross, “set in motion a series of events that eventually led to Flynn pleading guilty in the special counsel’s investigation.”
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