Via CNN’s @GloriaBorger: “One source close to the president attempted to mitigate the severity of the charge against Flynn by pointing out that everyone lies in Washington.”

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 1, 2017

The whole game plan has always been to render empirically verifiable facts *irrelevant* — if everyone lies, there’s no longer any point in pursuing the truth. Inquiry itself is rendered suspect:https://t.co/p30OZTEcOk https://t.co/7XNag7emR5

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 1, 2017