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Darrins was having a good time too. Aw shucks.
It doesn't matter whether Flynn secretly talked to the Russians before or after the election.
And do you ignorant mother ers really believe Flynn, etc ILLEGALLY talked to the Russians only AFTER the election?
Trash's team, from the election to 20 Jan, should have been in contact only with Obama's team, NOT ing around making contact with Russians while Trash team was not in office, subverting the LEGAL President, if he was a Repug-hated knitter.
Darrins was having a good time too. Aw shucks.
What does Michael Flynn’s plea deal mean for Trump? Here are 4 big questions.
1. What does Flynn even know?
the most significant thing about it is that it signals Flynn is cooperating. And it's likely his cooperation is far-reaching.
2. Why did Flynn lie?
Why did Flynn feel the need to misrepresent his conversations with the Russian ambassador?
were Flynn's lies merely the latest in a long volume of those close to Trump seeming to cover up the existence and substance of their contacts with Russia?
3. Who else, besides Jared Kushner, directed Flynn to talk to Russia?
Flynn contacted the Russian ambassador with the knowledge and at the direction of plenty of influential people.4. Why did Flynn direct Russia not to respond to U.S. sanctions?
. . . Court records and people familiar with the contacts indicated [Flynn] was acting in consultation with senior Trump transition officials, including President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in his dealings with the diplomat.Flynn’s plea revealed that he was in touch with senior Trump transition officials before and after his communications with the ambassador.
on Dec. 29, Flynn called the ambassador to ask Russia not to escalate an ongoing feud over sanctions imposed by the Obama administration, court records say. The ambassador later called back and said Russia had chosen not to retaliate,
did he indicate that the Trump administration might seek to ease those sanctions when it took over less than a month later?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nl_most&wpmm=1
ignorant, en led, privileged
Ivanka Trump pushed to put Flynn in office
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/iva...e+Raw+Story%29
Don't cry for Flynn
Michael Flynn will keep military rank and pension
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/mic...e+Raw+Story%29
Rachel Maddow: Flynn plea deal points the finger directly at Mike Pence involvement
Noting that Pence oversaw the Trump transition team, Maddow pointed that he likely was one of those who was aware that Flynn spoke withe the Russians about easing sanctions.
“Vice President Pence insisted publicly more than once that Mike Flynn never talked about sanctions with the Russians.
That was always a false statement,” Maddow began.
“Well, now we know that multiple members of the Trump transition team knew that was a false statement when Mike Pence said it.
So, why’d they let him say it?”
“Honestly, what we learned today also raises the question of whether or not Mike Pence knew that was a false statement when he said it,”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/rac...e+Raw+Story%29
8-D Chess tbh fwiw imho
>Flynn admits he got confused and inadvertently lied to the FBI
>Trump fires Flynn for lying to the FBI
>Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI
>this is somehow Trump's fault and very bad for him
Donald J. Trump — President of the United StatesChris never knows what he's talking about.
3 hrs ·
I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!
(Boy you're dumb
emails all good now.
"But his emails!"
Kyle Griffin doesn't know whether he's coming or going
Chris, why were Trump's advisers writing and forwarding emails that said Russia threw them the election?Kyle Griffin doesn't know whether he's coming or going
Trump appears to have just admitted to a serious crime on Twitter
This is a brand new version of events from the White House. And it could land the president in very hot water.
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI.
He has pled guilty to those lies.
It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful.
There was nothing to hide!
11:14 AM - Dec 2, 2017
This is a brand new version of events. Until now, the White House has claimed that Trump fired Flynn just because he lied to Pence.
According to Trump’s own tweet,
he would have known Flynn had lied to the FBI
at the time Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn,
assuring him Flynn had done nothing wrong.
On Twitter, Matthew Miller, a former Department of Justice official, echoes that Trump’s new version of events indicates an effort to obstruct Comey’s investigation.
Matthew Miller
✔@matthewamiller
Oh my god,
he just admitted to obstruction of justice.
If Trump knew Flynn lied to the FBI when he asked Comey to let it go,
then there is your case.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/937007006526959618 …
11:24 AM - Dec 2, 2017
Flynn resigned from his post Feb. 13 and Comey testified before Senate Intelligence Committee that in a Feb. 14 meeting in the White House — just a day after Flynn had left — Trump asked him to drop the investigation.
“I hope you can let this go,” Trump said to Comey, according to Comey’s memo on the conversation.
According to that same memo, Trump specifically told Comey in that conversation that Flynn had done nothing wrong. If today’s tweet is true, he then lied to Comey to get him to drop an investigation, knowing full well Flynn had lied to the FBI.
The White House has denied Comey’s version of events, but an FBI agent’s contemporaneous notes about events or conversations are often held up as evidence in court.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-twitter-obstruction-justice-2af99c5629f6/
"Oh my god,
he just admitted to obstruction of justice."
Crawl MF'er Crawl!
Putin pulling all the strings clearly.
Legal analyst Jeff Toobin destroys Trump lawyer’s claim that no crime was committed
“I’m not concerned about these bizarre theories,” Sekulow told Toobin. “There is no basis for saying, under the law or the facts, that any of this behavior during the campaign was criminal.”
Other experts disagree with Sekulow’s conclusion.
“Foreigners can’t contribute to federal, state, or local campaigns, and that doesn’t just cover cash contributions,”
Kathleen Clark, a professor at the law school of Washington University in St. Louis, explained.
“According to the statute, if a campaign solicits a foreigner to give a ‘thing of value’ to a political campaign, that would be illegal as well.”
The hacking of the DNC could also provide Trump associates with legal exposure under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
“If there is an agreement to commit hacking,
it doesn’t matter if the people in the Trump campaign didn’t do the actual hacking—
it just matters that they knew someone else would do it.
There just needs to be an agreement that one or more will do it,”
Orin Kerr, a professor at George Washington University Law School and computer law expert noted.
“They just need to have encouraged the hacking.”
A recent Supreme Court decision, Rosemond v. United States, expanded the definition of aiding and abetting to include assistance after the crime has been committed.
Toobin suggests that obstruction of justice will be easier for special counsel Robert Mueller to prove.
“Unlike ‘collusion,’ the crime of obstruction of justice is well established and easy to understand,”
Toobin noted.
“The issue is at the heart of Mueller’s mandate because a possible obstruction of justice—the President’s decision to fire James Comey—gave rise to the creation of the special-counsel position in the first place.
The crucial issue in the Comey firing is whether the President had a corrupt motive for the dismissal.”
“Trump’s financial affairs, especially with regard to Russia, remain opaque, but it’s possible to imagine how they might give rise to an impeachable offense.
A straight payoff to Trump—cash in return for, say, a relaxation of the sanctions imposed by President Obama on the Putin regime—would certainly be impeachable even if it were not technically a crime under American law.
Trump’s known business dealings suggest the possibility of a quid pro quo with Russian interests,”
“In 2015, for example, Trump signed a ‘letter of intent’ to build a tower in Moscow. Felix Sater, a Russian associate of Trump’s, wrote of the project, in an e-mail to Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen,
‘Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. . . . I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.’
That deal never came to fruition, but the intent expressed on both sides is deeply troubling.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/leg...e+Raw+Story%29
“They just need to have encouraged the hacking.”
“I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,”
the Republican nominee said at a news conference in Florida.
“I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
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