Is the White House scapegoating Michael Flynn?

Of the 180 officials for whom the White House released financial disclosure statements last week, Flynn appeared to be the only one who had original and amended versions of that statement sent out to the media.

Discrepancies between the two disclosures raised red flags due to payments from RT and two other Russian entities, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky and airline Volga Dnepr. None of the three had been disclosed in Flynn’s initial filing.

But amendments to financial disclosure statements are routine. Numerous other Trump administration officials amended their initial disclosure forms without having their initial forms—and their accompanying errors or omissions—released to the press.

“Virtually all filers in every administration amend their disclosures from time to time because of the complexity of the forms and the precision of the information required,” a White House source familiar with the disclosure process acknowledged.