homersapien 11,373 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 55 minutes ago, DKW 86 said: Homey it is not my job to ask your opinions of the crap you post. That’s your job. No one else’s. But given your past mental gymnastics (the above mentioned piece) where you say you randomly changed the subject in the middle of dozens of posts and didn’t tell anyone you did (of course not, that wouldn’t leave you much needed weasel room) and then went back and resumed the conversation. You continue your completely UNBELIEVABLE plea that you changed subjects but did not mention nor point it out at the time. No, as usual, you go for the bs. Mr Party-Line Talking Points posts up a butt kisser of an article that has since been corrected by the SFchron after being called out by yahoo. Now you say you don’t believe Feinstein. Why didn’t you just say that rather than posting up a crap article? You literally had to go dig up a home town shade toss as one of only two articles that mentioned DF. Both articles through shade on DF. But of course you didn’t mean that. No you question DFs story even while making not one comment on it while post three total articles on the stack sale. But again, oddly, not one of them in any way questioning DF. You know homes, maybe it is just you are a liar, and that’s all there is to it. Occams Razor. You are ******* crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,423 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 23 hours ago, homersapien said: You are ******* crazy. No, just persistent and observant. BTW, Still havent answered that question, just as predicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,373 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 On 3/23/2020 at 2:31 PM, DKW 86 said: Homey it is not my job to ask your opinions of the crap you post. That’s your job. No one else’s. But given your past mental gymnastics (the above mentioned piece) where you say you randomly changed the subject in the middle of dozens of posts and didn’t tell anyone you did (of course not, that wouldn’t leave you much needed weasel room) and then went back and resumed the conversation. You continue your completely UNBELIEVABLE plea that you changed subjects but did not mention nor point it out at the time. No, as usual, you go for the bs. Mr Party-Line Talking Points posts up a butt kisser of an article that has since been corrected by the SFchron after being called out by yahoo. Now you say you don’t believe Feinstein. Why didn’t you just say that rather than posting up a crap article? You literally had to go dig up a home town shade toss as one of only two articles that mentioned DF. Both articles throw shade on DF. But of course you didn’t mean that. No you question DFs story even while making not one comment on it while post three total articles on the stock sale. But again, oddly, not one of them in any way questioning DF. You know homes, maybe it is just you are a liar, and that’s all there is to it. Occams Razor. Like I said, the only reason I posted the SF Chronicle article was that it was a report from her hometown paper. I said nothing. What an incoherent rant you have manufactured from a simple post containing only a link. It's proof positive that you are ******* crazy. Please ignore me in the future and I will reciprocate. Take your "persistence" and apply it to someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,423 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 1 minute ago, homersapien said: Like I said, the only reason I posted the SF Chronicle article was that is was a report from her hometown paper. I said nothing about it. What an incoherent rant you have manufactured from a simple post with only a link. It's proof positive that you are ******* crazy. There is no point in discourse with you, as the above rant clearly demonstrates. Please ignore me in the future and I will reciprocate. I am the air that you f'in breathe... You couldnt ignore me if you wanted to. Again, you lie. You posted three articles on this: 1) One doesnt mention DF at all. 2) One mentions DF in one sentence, and tries to clear her in that mention. Its title states stock trading is a GOP Issue alone. 3) Last one misquotes a timeline, that was later corrected, again to clear DF one more time. COMMON DENOMINATOR: You are taking actions throwing shade for DF in all three articles while calling out the other perps. After posting up these three articles you "CLAIM" to question DF and her actions. BS! Nothing could be farther from the truth. homey, your actions (posting three article essentially clearing or covering DF) never match your words, claiming you actually question DF actions. Then again, this is you we are talking about. And this is why I dont believe a word you ever say and havent in years on this forum. There is always the weaselly out for you whenever it come to questioning one of those you support. It is not up to us to question you to determine your POV, youre a grown ass man, do it yourself. That's your responsibility, no one else's. Quit with the denials of the undeniable. I am just persistent and observant. BTW, Still havent answered that question, just as predicted. SSDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,148 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Burr's phone has been seized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdefromtx 3,159 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 On 3/24/2020 at 2:51 PM, DKW 86 said: I am the air that you f'in breathe... You couldnt ignore me if you wanted to. Again, you lie. You posted three articles on this: 1) One doesnt mention DF at all. 2) One mentions DF in one sentence, and tries to clear her in that mention. Its title states stock trading is a GOP Issue alone. 3) Last one misquotes a timeline, that was later corrected, again to clear DF one more time. COMMON DENOMINATOR: You are taking actions throwing shade for DF in all three articles while calling out the other perps. After posting up these three articles you "CLAIM" to question DF and her actions. BS! Nothing could be farther from the truth. homey, your actions (posting three article essentially clearing or covering DF) never match your words, claiming you actually question DF actions. Then again, this is you we are talking about. And this is why I dont believe a word you ever say and havent in years on this forum. There is always the weaselly out for you whenever it come to questioning one of those you support. It is not up to us to question you to determine your POV, youre a grown ass man, do it yourself. That's your responsibility, no one else's. Quit with the denials of the undeniable. I am just persistent and observant. BTW, Still havent answered that question, just as predicted. SSDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,148 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 These attempts to shoehorn Feinstein in are pretty weird. The sale of that biotech stock looks entirely above board, basically normal day trading, and took place before the hearing that seems to have triggered Burr and Loeffler's liquidation of their assets. I'd be saying the same thing if Ron Johnson was the subject of your ire here. His trades also looked fairly routine. Burr and Loeffler, on the other hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,148 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 On 3/22/2020 at 1:00 PM, homersapien said: (But to clarify for David's sake, I definitely think her actions - along with her husband, Richard C. Blum - need to be investigated to verify her claim it was done under a blind trust.) You got your wish. The FBI looked into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,148 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Burr is stepping down from his Chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,373 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 ..............Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement that Burr informed him Thursday morning “of his decision to step aside as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation. We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow.” The decision to step aside acknowledges the awkward, ethically fraught dynamic that would have existed if Burr (R-N.C.) had continued to lead a committee with oversight responsibilities for an agency conducting a criminal investigation of his conduct. It also has implications for the delicate balance of power between the government’s executive and legislative branches, suggesting that an investigation alone may be enough to remove a senior lawmaker from a key post. In the case of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), he did not step down from a ranking committee position until he after he was indicted on corruption charges in 2015 — a case that eventually fell apart. A senior Justice Department official said the warrant for Burr’s cellphone was approved “at the highest levels” of the agency and was served on Burr’s lawyer — though the phone had to be retrieved from Burr’s home. Investigators obtained a search warrant to examine data in the senator’s cloud storage for his iPhone, according to a person familiar with the case. The Burr search warrants were first reported by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. Tom Mentzer, a spokesman for Feinstein, said Thursday that she was “asked some basic questions by law enforcement about her husband’s stock transactions.” The spokesman said Feinstein “was happy to voluntarily answer those questions to set the record straight and provided additional documents to show she had no involvement in her husband’s transactions. There have been no follow up actions on this issue.” She was questioned in April, aides said. Disclosure records show Feinstein and her husband sold between $1.5 million to $6 million worth of stock between Jan. 31 and Feb. 18. Sen. Richard Burr, head of powerful committee, sold large amount of stocks before sharp declines in market Because the intelligence committee is a select committee, its Republican membership and leadership is largely up to McConnell. Aides to the majority leader declined to comment Thursday afternoon when asked whom he might install as chairman. Burr is expected to remain on the committee even though he will not be chairman. If McConnell chooses to go by seniority, Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho), would be next in line to chair the committee, but he already leads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After Risch is Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a national security hawk who had been widely expected to take over the committee once Burr retires. But Rubio currently leads the Senate Small Business Committee, a once-sleepy panel that is suddenly relevant now with a small-business lending program the centerpiece of a $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package passed by Congress last month. Both Risch and Rubio declined to comment at the Capitol, as did their offices.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/14/fbi-richard-burr-warrant/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,423 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Good riddance to all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdefromtx 3,159 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 How about we all accept that Congress universally corrupt, some just hide it better than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumps 3,704 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Those who illegally used their position to benefit financially should pay dearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,148 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 1 hour ago, homersapien said: ..............Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement that Burr informed him Thursday morning “of his decision to step aside as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation. We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow.” The decision to step aside acknowledges the awkward, ethically fraught dynamic that would have existed if Burr (R-N.C.) had continued to lead a committee with oversight responsibilities for an agency conducting a criminal investigation of his conduct. It also has implications for the delicate balance of power between the government’s executive and legislative branches, suggesting that an investigation alone may be enough to remove a senior lawmaker from a key post. In the case of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), he did not step down from a ranking committee position until he after he was indicted on corruption charges in 2015 — a case that eventually fell apart. A senior Justice Department official said the warrant for Burr’s cellphone was approved “at the highest levels” of the agency and was served on Burr’s lawyer — though the phone had to be retrieved from Burr’s home. Investigators obtained a search warrant to examine data in the senator’s cloud storage for his iPhone, according to a person familiar with the case. The Burr search warrants were first reported by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. Tom Mentzer, a spokesman for Feinstein, said Thursday that she was “asked some basic questions by law enforcement about her husband’s stock transactions.” The spokesman said Feinstein “was happy to voluntarily answer those questions to set the record straight and provided additional documents to show she had no involvement in her husband’s transactions. There have been no follow up actions on this issue.” She was questioned in April, aides said. Disclosure records show Feinstein and her husband sold between $1.5 million to $6 million worth of stock between Jan. 31 and Feb. 18. Sen. Richard Burr, head of powerful committee, sold large amount of stocks before sharp declines in market Because the intelligence committee is a select committee, its Republican membership and leadership is largely up to McConnell. Aides to the majority leader declined to comment Thursday afternoon when asked whom he might install as chairman. Burr is expected to remain on the committee even though he will not be chairman. If McConnell chooses to go by seniority, Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho), would be next in line to chair the committee, but he already leads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After Risch is Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a national security hawk who had been widely expected to take over the committee once Burr retires. But Rubio currently leads the Senate Small Business Committee, a once-sleepy panel that is suddenly relevant now with a small-business lending program the centerpiece of a $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package passed by Congress last month. Both Risch and Rubio declined to comment at the Capitol, as did their offices.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/14/fbi-richard-burr-warrant/ I'll entertain the idea that what's happening to Burr may be politically motivated, but he did provide the rope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,373 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Don't expect Trump world to rescue Richard Burr Trump allies want the president to stay out of Burr's insider trading case, wary of the political importance of North Carolina in 2020. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/trump-world-richard-burr-investigation-259740 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_M4_AU 7,827 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 13 hours ago, homersapien said: Don't expect Trump world to rescue Richard Burr Trump allies want the president to stay out of Burr's insider trading case, wary of the political importance of North Carolina in 2020. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/trump-world-richard-burr-investigation-259740 Why would Trump rescue Burr if he is guilty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,373 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 4 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said: Why would Trump rescue Burr if he is guilty? Because he can. Burr is a Republican senator who presumably supports Trump. Do you really think Trump gives a s*** if he's guilty or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_M4_AU 7,827 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Just now, homersapien said: Because he can. Burr is a Republican senator who presumably supports Trump. Do you really think Trump gives a s*** if he's guilty or not? Yes I do believe Trump cares if he is guilty. See Michael Flynn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,373 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 4 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said: Yes I do believe Trump cares if he is guilty. See Michael Flynn. That's a non sequitur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_M4_AU 7,827 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 12 minutes ago, homersapien said: That's a non sequitur. Burr has not be proven guilty, so if he is guilty Trump will not rescue him. Flynn admitted he lied to the FBI and was fired. Later, it appears, Flynn was set up to lie to the FBI and the DOJ recommendation to drop the case and Trump agrees. It took 3 years, but Trump does care if someone is guilty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,373 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 13 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said: Burr has not be proven guilty, so if he is guilty Trump will not rescue him. Flynn admitted he lied to the FBI and was fired. Later, it appears, Flynn was set up to lie to the FBI and the DOJ recommendation to drop the case and Trump agrees. It took 3 years, but Trump does care if someone is guilty. Flynn is guilty as hell. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/politics/flynn-trump-conspiracy-theories-pardon/index.html And then there's this: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-trump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_M4_AU 7,827 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 14 minutes ago, homersapien said: Flynn is guilty as hell. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/politics/flynn-trump-conspiracy-theories-pardon/index.html And then there's this: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-trump If he was set up by the FBI, everything after is not relevant. The DOJ would have to find another way to charge him with a crime. It doesn’t seem the DOJ or FBI is up to the task. To the pardon talk; now that in non sequitur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,373 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 33 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said: If he was set up by the FBI, everything after is not relevant. The DOJ would have to find another way to charge him with a crime. It doesn’t seem the DOJ or FBI is up to the task. To the pardon talk; now that in non sequitur. He confessed. He's guilty. This business about claiming he was somehow "set up" or tricked into confessing is a farce and a mockery of the law. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/politics/flynn-trump-conspiracy-theories-pardon/index.html Flynn's crime and cover-up regarding Russia Flynn lied to the FBI about his Russian contacts. He became Trump's first national security adviser in January 2017 and was interviewed shortly thereafter by FBI agents about his calls with the Russian ambassador. According to court filings, Flynn told at least four lies during the interview, about his conversations with the Russian about sanctions and a United Nations vote. Flynn said under oath that he wasn't set-up. Flynn got a heads-up that FBI agents wanted to interview him about Russia. Prosecutors said the agents gave him "multiple opportunities" to correct his lies. They used questioning tactics that are common in criminal probes. Flynn testified in 2018 that he knew it was a crime when he lied to the FBI agents, that he didn't think his rights were violated and that he didn't want to challenge the circumstances of his interview. Flynn lied to the Trump White House about Russia. The FBI wanted to interview Flynn after seeing public denials from senior White House officials that Flynn discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador. According to the Mueller report, Flynn lied privately to Vice President Mike Pence, then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and then-spokesman Sean Spicer, who publicly repeated those denials in a series of press interviews before Trump took office. Flynn told two judges under oath that he was guilty. When Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017, and during his initial sentencing hearing in 2018, Flynn said under oath that he was guilty of lying to the FBI. He made this sworn statement in front of two separate judges who handled different parts of his criminal case. He pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to the FBI. Additional wrongdoing beyond Russia Flynn was a pro-Turkey lobbyist while advising Trump. Flynn's plea revealed he was an unregistered lobbyist for Turkish interests while advising candidate Trump on foreign policy in 2016. Flynn's company was paid $500,000 by a Dutch company to push pro-Turkey interests in the US, and he publicly flip-flopped after initially backing the June 2016 coup attempt in Ankara. Flynn lied to the Justice Department about his Turkey lobbying. Flynn belatedly registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for Turkey after the contract ended. But he later admitted making three false statements in that paperwork. (Flynn acknowledged these additional crimes in his guilty plea, but he has since disavowed this admission and is now trying to withdraw the plea.) Flynn later changed his story on Turkey. Flynn was also slated to testify against his former business partner, Bijan Kian, who was charged with illegal lobbying for Turkey. According to court filings, Flynn told a grand jury that their lobbying "was always on behalf" of the Turkish government. But Flynn changed his story before the trial, and prosecutors didn't call him as a witness. The jury convicted Kian, but the judge threw out their verdict due to lack of evidence. 'Substantial' cooperation with Mueller Flynn got a strong plea deal, avoiding other charges. Despite seven documented lies to investigators, Flynn reached an agreement with Mueller in December 2017 and pleaded guilty to one count of lying. He avoided any lobbying-related charges, even though his business partner was later indicted. Flynn and his wife said in sworn affidavits that the deal protected their son, who was involved in the company. And according to an FBI note from 2017 released this week, investigators mulled whether Flynn violated the Logan Act with his Russian backchanneling. Flynn provided Mueller with evidence against Trump. After inking that cooperation deal, Flynn gave Mueller evidence about obstruction of justice by Trump, including a voicemail from Trump lawyer John Dowd shortly before Flynn flipped. Flynn also told investigators about how the Trump campaign discussed reaching out to WikiLeaks and find Hillary Clinton's emails. Embracing conspiracy theories Flynn's lawyers have peddled in conspiracy theories. Flynn switched up his legal team last year. He fired his white-collar attorneys and hired a team with more conservative ties, led by Sidney Powell, a right-wing firebrand who has a history of embracing conspiracy theories about the Justice Department. She has included these conspiracies in her court filings in Flynn's case. A judge ruled there was no Justice Department plot against Flynn. A federal judge soundly rejected many of the allegations put forward by Powell, who argued that corrupt FBI officials conspired to entrap Flynn because they hated Trump. The judge previously said "the record proves" that Flynn wasn't ambushed, and rejected his attempts to obtain more documents. Flynn's lawyers are using the newly unsealed documents as part of their ongoing attempt to withdraw the plea. Justice Department lawyers defended the Flynn investigation in court. Flynn pressed for more documents last year to prove his misconduct allegations against the FBI. But Justice Department lawyers rebutted his claims in court and called it "a fishing expedition in hopes of advancing conspiracy theories." (Later, Attorney General William Barr launched his own review of the files Flynn was seeking, and it was this review that surfaced the new documents that were unsealed this week.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,373 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Michael Flynn isn’t a martyr. He’s a crook and a crackpot. By Paul Waldman Opinion writer May 15, 2020 at 12:47 p.m. EDT For anyone with a memory that stretches all the way back to 2016, it is positively bizarre to see Republicans suddenly claiming that Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, is a martyr. It’s obvious why and how they’re doing it: In an effort to distract from Trump’s spectacular failure on the coronavirus pandemic, they are attempting to create a new fake “scandal” that will send us all down an endless rabbit hole chasing absurd lies and conspiracy theories. But Michael Flynn? He’s the one they want to portray as a victim? What’s next — Jeffrey Epstein was framed? Bernie Madoff was a humanitarian? Al Capone was misunderstood? Here’s the truth: Flynn should never have been allowed within 10 miles of the White House. He was a dangerous, dishonest and shady operator who was also kind of a loon. For a moment, it appeared that everyone in the Trump administration realized it, which was why he was booted from his position as national security adviser after only 24 days on the job. Yet now they’re treating him like a hero. So let’s quickly review who Flynn was: In 2014, Flynn was forced out of his position as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). As Colin Powell later described it in a leaked email, Flynn was “Abusive with staff, didn’t listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc. He has been and was right-wing nutty [ever] since.” As The Post reported, “Former subordinates at the DIA said Flynn was so prone to dubious pronouncements that senior aides coined a term — ‘Flynn facts’ — for assertions that seemed questionable or inaccurate.” The New York Times reported that some insiders “described him as a Captain Queeg-like character, paranoid that his staff members were undercutting him and credulous of conspiracy theories.” Flynn insisted that he was removed not for his erratic mismanagement but because his superiors didn’t agree with his warnings about the danger of radical Islam. He later gave speeches claiming that Democrats were installing Sharia law at the state and local level. Flynn once tweeted that “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL.” He has said Islam is “a malignant cancer” that “hides behind this notion of it being a religion.” Flynn used his social media accounts to spread lunatic conspiracy theories that Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex-trafficking, that President Barack Obama was a “jihadi,” that Clinton’s campaign manager conducted occult rituals, and that the United Nations was plotting to install a one-world government. Flynn was paid $45,000 to appear at a 2015 gala in celebration of Russian propaganda network RT (he sat at Vladimir Putin’s table during the dinner). Former senior military officials are supposed to receive Pentagon permission before accepting such payments; Flynn apparently did not. While working as an adviser to the Trump campaign in 2016, Flynn was also secretly working on behalf of the Turkish government, being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to advocate Turkey’s interests. This consisted, in large part, of seeking to discredit Fethullah Gulen, a dissident Turkish cleric now living in the United States. On Election Day in 2016, Flynn wrote an op-ed for the Hill blasting Gulen and praising Turkey, but did not disclose that he was being paid to do so. Flynn also failed to register as a foreign agent as required by law, only doing so retroactively after he was fired as national security adviser in 2017. In 2015, Flynn was paid by an American company seeking to partner with Russian interests to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East; in his security clearance documents, he failed to disclose a trip he took to work on the plan. In his brief time as national security adviser, he then promoted the plan inside the White House. During the transition after the 2016 election, Flynn maneuvered to delay a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State, an operation Turkey opposed because it involved a partnership between the U.S. and Kurdish forces. When Obama and Trump met in the Oval Office days after the election, Obama warned the president-elect that giving Flynn a high-ranking job in the administration was a terrible idea, which turned out to be right. Trump didn’t listen. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador, during which Flynn negotiated with the ambassador over sanctions the Obama administration had imposed as punishment for Russian interference in the 2016 election. The fact that Attorney General William P. Barr made an extraordinary and unprecedented effort to drop the case after Flynn pleaded guilty does not change the fact that Flynn lied to the FBI, and also lied to Vice President Pence about his conversations with Russian officials, leading Pence to then repeat Flynn’s lie on television. According to then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, when he told Trump about Flynn’s lies, Trump replied, “Not again, this guy, this stuff.” Those lies were the reason Trump gave for firing him. Trump has always gathered around him the most morally repugnant people he could find, an endless collection of grifters, liars and thieves. Flynn fit right in, even if he was discarded when he became an embarrassment. But the real problem is that he was ever given a position of responsibility in the first place. As you watch Republicans make the ludicrous claim that he’s the victim of an anti-Trump conspiracy, keep that in mind. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/15/michael-flynn-isnt-martyr-hes-crook-crackpot/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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