Trump Says He Fired Michael Flynn ‘Because He Lied’ to F.B.I.<br />President Trump said on Saturday that he had fired Michael T. Flynn, his first national security adviser,<br />because he lied not just to the vice president but also to the F. B.I.<br />Shortly after the acting attorney general, Sally Q. Yates, told the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, in January<br />that Mr. Flynn might be compromised because he had misled the vice president, Mr. McGahn briefed Mr. Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter.<br />The president has long asserted that he fired Mr. Flynn in February, less than a month after he took office,<br />because Mr. Flynn had lied to Vice President Mike Pence over whether he talked with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, about sanctions imposed on Russia by President Barack Obama.<br />In subsequent conversations between Mr. Trump and Mr. McGahn about whether Mr. Flynn<br />should be fired, Mr. Trump did not cite Mr. Flynn’s truthfulness with the F. B.I
