Trump and Putin, behind the scenes

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But taking his feud with the FBI and defense of Flynn into the court of public opinion may backfire for the president. A tweet he sent on Saturday showed why: It seemed to indicate that he knew Flynn had lied to the FBI when he asked Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn raising more questions about whether he tried to obstruct justice. The White House scrambled to clean up the mess Trump's tweet had created, claiming hours later that Trump's lawyer John Dowd had crafted the tweet inartfully. Legal experts were incredulous. "Most lawyers I know are so careful about what they write that they triple-check every letter they send out," said former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti. "We’re supposed to believe Trump’s lawyer wrote a false tweet about the Mueller investigation and sent it out through the President’s account?" A pardon, moreover, would be essentially useless at this point, said former Department of Justice spokesman Matt Miller — and Flynn is likely aware of that.

Trump escalates war with FBI, defense of Flynn after guilty plea - Business Insider

And when he realized his mistake he blamed his lawyer for the tweet, which has no credibility as lawyers would be orders of magnitude more careful and Trump just tweets what's on his mind without thinking of consequences.