“The Federalist” declares that that the FBI investigation of Michael Flynn was a “set up”. That’s clever. I may inform the police, the next time I get a ticket, that I was “set up”: obviously, you were out to catch people who were speeding. You decided to park on the side of the road with your radar gun to see if I was speeding. That’s entrapment.
This logic is fairly typical of conservative, right-wing media, trying to make it sound like they–just like those real journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post– have the goods on someone. Yes, yes, our deeply researched investigation (we looked at three websites) has uncovered the shocking story of how the FBI, believing the Michael Flynn may have been coordinating Trump’s foreign policy with Russian interests, decided to try to trap him into coordinating with Russian interests so they could charge him with coordinating with Russian interests. The bastards! They even tricked him into confessing, and pleading guilty– oh the perversity of liberals and the media!