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| Bloomberg's Eli Lake: The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn |
| 2017-02-15 |
| [Bloomberg] If we are to believe the Trump White House, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn just resigned because he lied about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the vice president. As White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway told NBC's "Today Show" on Tuesday: "Misleading the vice president really was the key here." That sounds about as credible as when the president told CIA employees that the media had invented the story about his enmity toward the spy agency, not even two weeks after he had taken to Twitter to compare the CIA to Nazis. It's about as credible as President Donald Trump's insistence that it didn't rain during his inauguration. Or that millions of people had voted illegally in the election he just won. The point here is that for a White House that has such a casual and opportunistic relationship with the truth, it's strange that Flynn's "lie" to Pence would get him fired. It doesn't add up. Oh for fok's sake. These libtards simply cannot resist the temptation to mock and belittle. It's not even clear that Flynn lied. He says in his resignation letter that he did not deliberately leave out elements of his conversations with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak when he recounted them to Vice President Mike Pence. The New York Times and Washington Post reported that the transcript of the phone call reviewed over the weekend by the White House could be read different ways. One White House official with knowledge of the conversations told me that the Russian ambassador raised the sanctions to Flynn and that Flynn responded that the Trump team would be taking office in a few weeks and would review Russia policy and sanctions. That's neither illegal nor improper. What's more, the Washington Post reported Monday night that last month Sally Yates, then the acting attorney general, had informed the White House that Flynn discussed sanctions with Kislyak and that he could be susceptible to blackmail because he misled Pence about it. If it was the lie to Pence that sunk Flynn, why was he not fired at the end of January? The WAPO, an acknowledged guardian of truth and civility. Skipping down to the BLUF In the end, it was Trump's decision to cut Flynn loose. In doing this he caved in to his political and bureaucratic opposition. Nunes told me Monday night that this will not end well. "First it's Flynn, next it will be Kellyanne Conway, then it will be Steve Bannon, then it will be Reince Priebus," he said. Put another way, Flynn is only the appetizer. Trump is the entree. So, the revealing of the left's target folder is somehow news ? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 The problem here is that instead of sacking flynn, Trump should have said: so what? He should have been talking to russia along with other countries, which he did, its routine and normal. The cold war ended in 1991. Lets have a congressional investigation into Saudi influence on US elections and foreign policy instead And start your own witch hunt into saudi influence You'd claim hillary and obama and the deceptacon deep state |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-15 18:22 |
| #4 Alex jones says Rinsed Penis is indeed the termite undermining, the leaker-in-chief and the problem |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-15 18:18 |
| #3 CBS is repeating the word "chaos" as often as they possibly can. Forget Flynn. This is all about Trump. It seems there are more than one way to assassinate a president. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-02-15 11:09 |
| #2 Yup. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-02-15 09:59 |
| #1 Flynn had to know someone somewhere had ears on Sergey. The channel he used obviously wasn't deep enough or perhaps he didn't care. Either way someone was willing to reveal methods in order to bring him down. But why so public? Lake is right. This one smells like a hit job with a larger agenda. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2017-02-15 09:55 |