A former top Trump official has changed her tune regarding what she knew about disgraced national security adviser Michael Flynn's Russian contacts.
K.T. McFarland, who worked on the Trump campaign, served as deputy national security adviser and was nominated by the president to be the ambassador to Singapore, has reportedly revised statements she made to special counsel Robert Mueller's office about Flynn, according to The Washington Post.
McFarland's initial claim that she never talked to Flynn about his discussions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions during the transition period following the 2016 election was contradicted by Flynn's guilty plea last year, the Post reports.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Kislyak last December and has been cooperating with Mueller's team. He is set to be sentenced in December.
McFarland had publicly denied sanctions were discussed and told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that she had no memory of talking to Flynn about the recently imposed restrictions put in place by the Obama administration in response to Kremlin election interference.
Questions about McFarland's morphing memory derailed her ambassadorship last year.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., called the contradictions between her testimony and Flynn's plea agreement "alarming."
