Flynn and Son to be charged for Russian Collusion
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With Flynn now feeding information to prosecutors, "they're reaching a point where they're going to start involving more significant figures," including possible "dotted line" connections between Flynn and the president.
Flynn flipping is a major break for Mueller — and bad news for the next big target
Michael Flynn was a key player in Donald Trump's orbit, including his election campaign, his transition team and, at least for a few days, in his White House.
All the more reason why the retired general will prove very valuable to the U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russian election-meddlers.
Flynn, Trump's short-lived national security adviser, is the first senior official to cave to Robert Mueller's probe. He pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about his talks with the Russian ambassador last December.
It was part of a plea deal with Mueller's team as they pressure figures around president Trump to co-operate with their investigation.
With Flynn helping them, that pressure will be applied in one direction.
"Upwards," said Barak Cohen, a former federal prosecutor.
"They're going to take that information Flynn has provided, and they'll keep going as high up the food chain as it gets," he said. "They won't stop until they're satisfied they've reached as far as they reasonably can."
Flynn's co-operation not only suggests he has information Mueller's team finds crucial to the case, but that a pre-agreement sit-down called a "proffer of information" gave prosecutors enough confidence in Flynn's answers to warrant offering him a deal.
Flynn's guilty plea for lying to the FBI — a felony that carries a maximum five-year sentence — is an "inflection point" in the case, Cohen said.
Flynn flipping is a major break for Mueller
No he didn't, MF. Nice try though. I liked your next post better. At least there was an attempt to substantiate Tiger Woods. :lol:
Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn entered a guilty plea Friday to lying about efforts by the incoming Trump administration to help Israel avoid censure at the UN Security Council over its illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Yet several major US media outlets were initially silent about the Israeli connection.
Flynn appeared in federal court in Washington to admit that he lied about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador last December, in the weeks before Donald Trump took the oath of office.
The single count charges that Flynn lied to federal investigators about two conversations; in the first, on 22 December, Flynn asked the Russian envoy to delay or defeat the UN Security Council vote condemning Israel’s settlements.
FBI Has Flynn on Lying About Ties to Israel, Not Russia
LOL! It isn't even about Flynn and russia, it's about FLYNN colluding with ISRAEL!
Well that explains the avros and hoids...
MF ..well there IS NO explanation for that, at least if there is, we can nazi it.
HaHa
here is how the NYtimes reported it
Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. and Will Cooperate With Russia Inquiry
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ADAM GOLDMANDEC. 1, 2017
The Events That Led to Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea
The guilty plea by Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, brings the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election into Mr. Trump’s inner circle.
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador last December, becoming the first senior White House official to cut a cooperation deal in the special counsel’s wide-ranging inquiry into election interference.
Mr. Flynn’s discussions with Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, were part of a coordinated effort by Mr. Trump’s aides to create foreign policy before they were in power, documents released as part of Mr. Flynn’s plea agreement show. Their efforts undermined the existing policy of President Barack Obama and flouted a warning from a senior Obama administration official to stop meddling in foreign affairs before the inauguration.
The documents do not disclose what Mr. Trump knew about Mr. Flynn’s discussions. But in at least one instance, prosecutors say, Mr. Flynn was directed by a “very senior member” of the presidential transition team to discuss a United Nations resolution. Mr. Trump’s lawyers believe that unnamed aide was Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, according to a lawyer briefed on the matter.
FBI Has Flynn on Lying About Ties to Israel, Not Russia
Yup, NOW we know it's as I have said before, all about collusion with ISRAEL, who sinks MILLIONS into controlling US elections, so they can get BILLIONS in aid money that is illegal because they never signed the NNPT. Also of course, besides hating the U$, ISRAEL also HATES RUSSIA, so I guess its all good according to them.
LAWSUIT CLAIMS US AID TO ISRAEL VIOLATES NUCLEAR PACT
lawsuit filed in a US district court claims that US aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that don’t sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, who filed the lawsuit Monday with a Washington DC court, said the United States has given Israel an estimated $234 billion in foreign aid since Congress in 1976 passed the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, with its stipulation regarding countries that did not sign the NPT, according to Courthouse News.
Lawsuit claims US aid to Israel violates nuclear pact - International - Jerusalem Post
Yet several major US media outlets were initially silent about the Israeli connection.
Flynn appeared in federal court in Washington to admit that he lied about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador last December, in the weeks before Donald Trump took the oath of office.
The single count charges that Flynn lied to federal investigators about two conversations; in the first, on 22 December, Flynn asked the Russian envoy to delay or defeat the UN Security Council vote condemning Israel’s settlements.
FBI Has Flynn on Lying About Ties to Israel, Not Russia
LOL! It isn't even about Flynn and russia, it's about FLYNN colluding with ISRAEL!
Well that explains the avros and hoids...
MF ..well there IS NO explanation for that, at least if there is, we can nazi it.
HaHa
here is how the NYtimes reported it
Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. and Will Cooperate With Russia Inquiry
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ADAM GOLDMANDEC. 1, 2017
The Events That Led to Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea
The guilty plea by Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, brings the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election into Mr. Trump’s inner circle.
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador last December, becoming the first senior White House official to cut a cooperation deal in the special counsel’s wide-ranging inquiry into election interference.
Mr. Flynn’s discussions with Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, were part of a coordinated effort by Mr. Trump’s aides to create foreign policy before they were in power, documents released as part of Mr. Flynn’s plea agreement show. Their efforts undermined the existing policy of President Barack Obama and flouted a warning from a senior Obama administration official to stop meddling in foreign affairs before the inauguration.
The documents do not disclose what Mr. Trump knew about Mr. Flynn’s discussions. But in at least one instance, prosecutors say, Mr. Flynn was directed by a “very senior member” of the presidential transition team to discuss a United Nations resolution. Mr. Trump’s lawyers believe that unnamed aide was Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, according to a lawyer briefed on the matter.
FBI Has Flynn on Lying About Ties to Israel, Not Russia
Yup, NOW we know it's as I have said before, all about collusion with ISRAEL, who sinks MILLIONS into controlling US elections, so they can get BILLIONS in aid money that is illegal because they never signed the NNPT. Also of course, besides hating the U$, ISRAEL also HATES RUSSIA, so I guess its all good according to them.
LAWSUIT CLAIMS US AID TO ISRAEL VIOLATES NUCLEAR PACT
lawsuit filed in a US district court claims that US aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that don’t sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, who filed the lawsuit Monday with a Washington DC court, said the United States has given Israel an estimated $234 billion in foreign aid since Congress in 1976 passed the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, with its stipulation regarding countries that did not sign the NPT, according to Courthouse News.
Lawsuit claims US aid to Israel violates nuclear pact - International - Jerusalem Post
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I believe everyone in the White House knew that there was to be no mention of any meetings with any Russians at any time.
This has been Trump's stance from the beginning - even though we now know there were many meetings with many Russians at many times.
Therefore the part about lying to Pence is itself a lie that Pence is part of.
Trump nails it.
Hillary Clinton Lied To FBI And Nothing Happened To Her, Flynn Lied And They Ruined His Life
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v..._her_flynn_lied_and_they_ruined_his_life.html
Hillary Clinton Lied To FBI And Nothing Happened To Her, Flynn Lied And They Ruined His Life
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v..._her_flynn_lied_and_they_ruined_his_life.html
If Trump's apparent foolishness is just an act, then he's an absolute genius. If he tells the judge he was clueless as to what was happening all around him, the judge would certainly have to accept that.
Flynn will be VP?
That doesn't sound right,
I fully expect Trump to start a war in North Korea.
That is republican presidential politics 101.
I don't think he is even interested in starting a war with Ping Pong just keep the aggressive pressure on him. Ping Pong will either back down or Crack under the constant U.S. pressure
Nah I don't see nukes being pulled out of the U.S. holster no need on such a speck on a map.
Do you have ALL the facts about the situation? Or are you just one of those twits unable to realize if you don't have ALL the facts, you really don't have anything?
Either way he will be gone
and so will thousands and thousands of people :smile: