Reps. Elijah Cummings, Nancy Pelosi and the New York Times fell for a parody account of Michael Flynn, who resigned on Monday.

“I believe we need to hold a public hearing with Flynn to get to the bottom of this,” Cummings said during a press conference on Capitol Hill, citing the parody tweet.

“While I accept full responsibility for my actions, I feel it is unfair that I have been made the sole scapegoat for what happened. But if a scapegoat is what’s needed for this administration to continue to take this great nation forward, I am proud to do my duty,” the fake account tweeted in a pair of messages.

Madam Leader, just this morning, Flynn tweeted, and this is a quote, ‘scapegoat,’ end of quote. Scapegoat. He basically described himself as a scapegoat,” said Cummings, D-Md.

Pelosi, D-Calif., added: “I have a tweet, I’m going to make, I’m telling my staff right now – it’s not scapegoat, it’s stonewall. And that’s exactly what the Republicans in Congress are doing.”

The New York Times had also featured the tweets in its story on Flynn’s resignation.

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