--- title: Hillary Clinton Sends Pointed Tweet After Flynn Resigns description: Hillary Clinton on Tuesday issued a pointed response to the resignation of Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's national security adviser canonical: https://time.com/4670356/hillary-clinton-michael-flynn-resignation/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-14T14:29:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T07:17:02.177Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Sends Pointed Tweet After Flynn Resigns og:description: There are 'real consequences of fake news' she warned og:url: https://time.com/4670356/hillary-clinton-michael-flynn-resignation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt697da62b6e539868/6988ba4286f68e2e896e3821/hillary-clinton-michael-flynn.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton And VP Biden Attend Portrait Unveiling For Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Sends Pointed Tweet After Flynn Resigns twitter:description: There are 'real consequences of fake news' she warned twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt697da62b6e539868/6988ba4286f68e2e896e3821/hillary-clinton-michael-flynn.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Sent a Pointed Twitter After the Resignation of Trump Advisor Michael Flynn > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, twice a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=c62af08b-a24d-4a80-8d52-5cd4b89591e1&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: National Security Advisor Michael Flynn Resigns [Watch (HLS stream): National Security Advisor Michael Flynn Resigns](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/l16JcwKD.m3u8) (0:59)  _Published 2017-02-13. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn resigned from the Trump Administration Monday night, blaming the "fast pace of events" during the transition for his misstatements about phone calls with a Russian ambassador._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 14, 2017 2:29 PM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 14, 2017 2:29 PM UTC Hillary Clinton on Tuesday [issued a pointed response](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/831377792893849600) to the [resignation of Michael Flynn](http://time.com/4670208/michael-flynn-resignation-trump-white-house/?xid=homepage), President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. She shared a [tweet by Philippe Reines](https://twitter.com/PhilippeReines/status/831356816609116160?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw), a former Clinton aide who played Trump during debate prep. “What goes around COMETS around,” Reines said, referencing a [false conspiracy theory](http://time.com/4594988/pizzagate-gunman-comet-ping-pong-regret/) that Comet Ping Pong, a Washington D.C. pizzeria, was harboring a child sex abuse ring run by Clinton. Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., spread the Comet Ping Pong conspiracy on social media and was fired from Trump’s team. When Flynn Sr. resigned on Monday, Reines suggested he look into a job at Domino’s — “given your pizza obsession.” “Philippe’s got his own way of saying things, but he has a point about the real consequences of fake news…” Clinton said. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/831377792893849600) > [](https://twitter.com/PhilippeReines/status/831356816609116160) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] What I can confirm having spoken to him about it is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the United States took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. [ MUSIC ] When he makes reports on the General Flynn the conversations with Russians about the sanctions before you [ UNKNOWN ] I don't know about it I haven't seen it. 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