'Lock him up!': Hecklers turned Michael Flynn's anti-Clinton chant against him as he left his plea hearing

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Protestors chanted and held signs as Michael Flynn walked out of a DC federal courthouse after pleading guilty to Mueller's charges.

• President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn was met with chants of "Lock him up!" outside a DC courthouse after pleading guilty to charges of lying to the FBI.
• The chants mirror one he and other members of the Trump campaign made throughout the election season in reference to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
• Flynn faces potential jail time and thousands of dollars in fines for the felony charge he pleaded guilty to.

As Michael Flynn, former White House national security advisor, left a federal courthouse in Washington, DC on Friday after pleading guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russians, he was greeted with a familiar chant from protestors and hecklers who had gathered outside alongside reporters.

"Lock him up!" they yelled, turning the tables on Flynn, who had himself lead crowds at the Republican National Convention in the same chant against former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in July 2016.

In footage from the convention, Flynn enthusiastically joined calls to put Clinton behind bars for allegedly using a private email server while secretary of state.

"Yeah that's right," Flynn said on the convention stage. "Lock her up!"

The "lock her up" chant has been used on numerous occasions by President Donald Trump and his associates during campaign rallies and on Twitter

"If I did a tenth of what she did," Flynn shouted in July 2016, "I would be in jail today."

A judge has yet to sentence Flynn for the charge he pleaded guilty to Friday morning, but his crime carries with it a maximum sentence of five years in prison and $250,000 fine.