Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and others were unfairly targeted "to take down a duly- elected president of the United States" in the "greatest political crime in the history of our country," according to President Donald Trump, who called the victims "heroes."
"It was the greatest political crime in the history of our country," Trump told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo. "If I were a Democrat instead of a Republican, I think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago, and I'm talking with 50-year sentences.
"It is a disgrace what's happened this is the greatest political scam, hoax in the history of our country. And people should be going to jail for this stuff and hopefully, a lot of people are going to have to pay.
"No other president should have to go through, and I'll tell you, Gen. Flynn and others are heroes, heroes, because what's happened to them. They weren't after Gen. Flynn, they wanted him to lie about me, make up a story, and with few exceptions, nobody did that."
Trump added those involved are surprised "we caught them in the act," he added.
"All these guys were guarding the fort and once they left, it got easier and easier and now it's like an avalanche of really bad – call it treason, call it whatever you want – but they tried to take down a duly-elected president of the United States," Trump told Bartiromo.
Trump added a rebuke of a two-tiered level of justice when it came to Hillary Clinton's email investigation by many of the same people.
"How about they walk into see Hillary Clinton's people, five people, I think, and they said you all have immunity," Trump said. "And with our people, they wanted to try and put them in jail and, in some cases, they did.
"And those people are going to go down as heroes."
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