For those with access to the WaPost, this is a good article breaking down just what a flake and idiot Mike Flynn is.
Just a sample:
- 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.
What part of…
…does the Washington Post fail to understand???
-Tom
You just redefine Flynn as the good guy and attack Obama admin for cutting him out of the loop.
That’s not it at all. You just scream SEE? GUILTY! and pretend the email proves your point.
The stay strikes me as expected, even routine. It’s quite normal for the Court to stay the order of a lower court while it considers an appeal.
KevinC
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Ahhh, my reading comprehension kind of sucks sometimes pre-coffee. :)
You can’t un-release it. This kind of thing will always be stayed until there is a final decision. Not that I expect to be satisfied by the final decision…
Fingers crossed we’ve got another Snowden or Manning waiting in the wings, worst comes to worst.
Seems like they’re trying to exonerate Flynn with call transcript releases:
Recall that speaking to the FBI about these calls, he said they did not discuss sanctions.
TPM has all the transcripts / call logs here.
Not sure that exoneration is going to be the net effect here. This feels more like something they had to release, so they waited until 5pm ET on a Friday while the news cycle was filled with other stuff. Classic take out the trash news dump.
Yes, agree, it’s a Friday dump and it won’t exonerate him. This makes it pretty clear he lied about the calls. It’s not reasonable that he ‘forgot’ this exchange.
The released transcript is damning for Flynn. As every non insane person already knew.
