First, a report issued by a Republican-led House committee — often touted by Trump — disclosed in 2018 that there had been an ongoing counterintelligence investigation of Flynn. Second, Trump was warned by President Barack Obama not to hire Flynn — and the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III says that warning actually soured Trump on Flynn. In a narrow, technical sense, Trump was not warned that Flynn was being investigated as a possible Russian agent. But Trump did get a warning not to hire Flynn from Obama — advice that the Mueller report, in a footnote, says began to gnaw at him and eventually soured the president on Flynn. The President-Elect had concerns because President Obama had warned him about Flynn shortly after the election.

Source: Washington Post May 20, 2019 07:01 UTC