National security adviser Michael Flynn resigned from his position only after he was asked to by President Trump, White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced Tuesday.
Trump asked for Flynn’s resignation “not based on a legal issue, but based on a trust issue,” Spicer said from the White House podium.
He added that the “level of trust between the president and Gen. Flynn had eroded.”
Spicer also revealed that in addition to Flynn misleading the vice president about what was discussed in his phone call with a Russian official, there were “a serious number of other questionable instances” from Flynn’s historically short tenure.
Spicer did not specify what those instances were.
But the White House press secretary maintained that the president is taking a hard line on Russia.
“The irony of the situation is that the president has been incredibly tough on Russia,” Spicer said.
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