The Flynn Affair Could Bring Down Trump’s Presidency

[HereWeGoAgain]

So how's the whole Flynn thing working out for you?

 

[ABikerSailor]

You know, Trump thought that after he got rid of Flynn, the whole thing would blow over and go away.

Only trouble is, it appears that it isn't going away, and the more they look into this, the more they find threads leading to other places.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

You know, Trump thought that after he got rid of Flynn, the whole thing would blow over and go away.

Only trouble is, it appears that it isn't going away, and the more they look into this, the more they find threads leading to other places.

Yeah, just like the pussy grabbing thing, the Russia connection thing, the vote hacking thing.........

This is a non-story. The only thing Flynn did wrong was being less than honest with the VP. That's it. He didn't break any laws, Trump didn't break any laws, nobody broke any laws. But if it makes you feel better chasing a ghost, go right ahead. The rest of us will move on.

 

[ABikerSailor]

You know, Trump thought that after he got rid of Flynn, the whole thing would blow over and go away.

Only trouble is, it appears that it isn't going away, and the more they look into this, the more they find threads leading to other places.

Yeah, just like the pussy grabbing thing, the Russia connection thing, the vote hacking thing.........

This is a non-story. The only thing Flynn did wrong was being less than honest with the VP. That's it. He didn't break any laws, Trump didn't break any laws, nobody broke any laws. But if it makes you feel better chasing a ghost, go right ahead. The rest of us will move on.

The pussy grabbing fiasco blew over, but the Russian thing and the election thing are still very much in play.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

You know, Trump thought that after he got rid of Flynn, the whole thing would blow over and go away.

Only trouble is, it appears that it isn't going away, and the more they look into this, the more they find threads leading to other places.

Yeah, just like the pussy grabbing thing, the Russia connection thing, the vote hacking thing.........

This is a non-story. The only thing Flynn did wrong was being less than honest with the VP. That's it. He didn't break any laws, Trump didn't break any laws, nobody broke any laws. But if it makes you feel better chasing a ghost, go right ahead. The rest of us will move on.

The pussy grabbing fiasco blew over, but the Russian thing and the election thing are still very much in play.

Only in the minds of liberals. The rest of us moved on to better things.

 

[Contumacious]

Senate hearings on the subject, including testimony under oath, are likely.

If Donald Trump thinks accepting Michael Flynn’s resignation will feed the beast enough to sate its hunger, he is mistaken.

This story is big, and will only get bigger in the days, weeks and months ahead. It could be the beginning of the end of Trump’s presidency. To be sure, additional dots would have to be connected, but the picture is already beginning to come into focus.

The Washington Post has reported that Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with the Russian ambassador during the month before Trump was sworn in. The subject of sanctions was not something that was mentioned casually or incidentally. It was the main topic of at least one of the calls. It did not slip through the cracks of Flynn’s memory.

In the final days of the Obama administration, government officials at the highest level already knew enough about those communications, and the lies Flynn had told about them, to be alarmed. Exactly how they obtained this information isn’t fully known yet, but it seems to have been based on some mix of wiretaps, intercepted Russian diplomatic cables, and human resources.

The Post reported yesterday that in the month before Trump took office, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the CIA, the FBI Director, and the Acting Attorney General all believed that Flynn had put himself in a compromising position. The Russian government knew that Flynn had discussed sanctions with their ambassador, and that Flynn had lied about it in public. Flynn had also presumably lied to Vice President Pence, who had issued his own categorical denial.

"The familiar and ominous cry of “What did the president know and when did he know it?” is creeping into the national conversation."​

The Russians knew that Flynn had lied when he denied having discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador just as the Obama administration was in the process of imposing those sanctions on them for interfering with our presidential election. This was something the Russians could use as leverage against Flynn. They could threaten to expose him. In a word, Flynn might be vulnerable to blackmail by Russia.

According to the Post, that concern led Sally Yates, the then acting attorney general, to inform Donald McGahn, Trump’s White House Counsel, late last month that she believed Flynn had misled senior administration officials about his communications with the Russian ambassador. Yates warned McGahn that Flynn was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail.

So what does all this have to do with Trump? Up to this point, he hasn’t been implicated directly in any inappropriate conduct. But the familiar and ominous cry of “What did the president know and when did he know it?” is creeping into the national conversation.

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My guess is that Trump only fired Flynn in self-defense - but it's way too late. The genie is out of the bottle.

Yes, the contrived Flynn affair will bring DJT's presidency down at noon on January 20th, 2024. Sad.

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[Lakhota]

Formal requests to "preserve all materials" is an interesting development. Just the beginning...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee has sent formal requests to more than a dozen organizations, agencies and individuals, asking them to preserve all materials related to the committee's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related issues, according to a congressional aide.

The committee chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and its vice chairman, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., sent letters Friday, the same day committee members received a classified briefing from FBI Director James Comey. Committee members declined to comment on what was discussed after the more than hourlong briefing.

Congressional staffers have said that they are not aware of any evidence that materials are not being preserved, but Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Thursday on the Senate floor: "There is real concern that some in the administration may try to cover up its ties to Russia by deleting emails, texts and other records that could shine a light on those connections. These records are likely to be the subject of executive branch as well as congressional investigations and must be preserved."

More: Aide: Senators Want Materials Saved For Probe Into Russian Election Interference

 

[danielpalos]

We have a Commerce Clause; for just this type of contingency. Our Founding Fathers, thought of every Thing.

 

[Lakhota]

Most Americans! That sounds good.

Most Americans Want Congress To Investigate Michael Flynn