The Flynn firing was a "canary trap" as laid out in the linked article:Trump 4D Chess. This had nothing to do with anything RDS bloviated about on AJ's show. It is even better and will lead to a removal of those who are blockading any investigation into Pizza(pedo)gate. This is the snowball rolling down a mountain peak. I think the original page was shut down to keep this from being spread as it is still an active intelligence operation. Fascinating stuff.
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AreWeSure ago
Flynn will only be the first to be investigated and removed from office. There will be many others. See Pence comments today, he understands he soon will be the POTUS. There is a snowball rolling down a mountain peak, but it's not the mountain you are thinking off. There's a reason Giuliani was not given a cabinet position.
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Melitica ago
Guiliani may have been ditched exactly the reasons you think but those things don't take Trump out. U Pence's speech was management of rhetoric after McCain went out and made a hysterical rant speech.
shooglenifty ago
You obviously didn't read the article. Flynn was a sacrificial lamb. He wasn't investigated, the IC was and they were busted. There is no internal administration coup, it is a coup of the deep state by the administration.
AreWeSure ago
Yeah, like I said, the snowball running down the hill is not on the hill you are thinking of. Flynn took $40,000 to appear at the Russia Today 10th anniversary. He didn't disclose that payment when he was being vetted. He lied to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. He's not playing super-duper secret spy game 4 dimensions ahead of us, he was playing a simple spy game badly and he got caught.
Mrs_Ogynist01 ago
Can you please source the $40,000 payment.
AreWeSure ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-ask-pentagon-to-explain-russian-payment-to-flynn/2017/02/01/de5e5f0e-e816-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?utm_term=.a8cadc119e5c
http://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/320051-pentagon-no-record-russia-pay-to-flynn-allowed
He didn't disclose that payment when he was being vetted.
I heard he didn't disclose this, but that might not be accurate. The accurate issue with this payment is before it happened. See links above.
Since retired generals are often subject to recall to government, they need to ask permission to receive payment from foreign governments. They are given explicit instructions on this when they leave the military. RT is a Kremlin operation, so taking their money is violation of the constitution's emoluments clause. He should have gotten permision from DOD or Congress or both. He did not.
Flynn is the tip of the iceberg. This is not a Deep State war against Trump because they don't like him or Trump has a list of pedophiles. This is because they have proven contacts with Russian officials and Trump's team. There are three separate FBI investigations into this and Congress just asked the White House and the Trump campaign to preserve all the emails, texts and other documentation. Russian politicians toasted Trump with champagne they day after the election. Two weeks ago, Trump was all over Russian TV and they were promoting him. Today, he is off their air. The issue with Flynn and the other developments have made it too hot. Both the Kremlin and the White House have started to portray their relationship as chilly all of a sudden.
When the intel agencies issues their opinion on Russia interfering with our election, the FBI was the hold out. Now they are on board. The reason? Comey did not read the intel reports until he got a warrant. Because if he read them before he couldn't prosecute people based on that information. FISA warrants have been issued and all prosecution options are open. This is going to ramp up very quickly.
Mrs_Ogynist01 ago
I can’t read the WaPo article you link to because I will not pay them, so I will just assume that you are correct in that he was paid $40,000. According to rt.com – “RT is an autonomous non-profit organization.” I think that would be a pretty good defense as to why Flynn didn’t get pre-approval for his speech. Also, what are the chances he would have even been told no. This is a non-issue, and certainly not an issue to bring down a democratically elected president.
“ There are three separate FBI investigations into this and Congress just asked the White House and the Trump campaign to preserve all the emails, texts and other documentation.” There are lots of FBI investigations going on right now including the illegal recording of a private citizen and leaking to the press. Something that would have had to been authorized by senior IC members - the same senior IC members pushing this Russian connections and the ridiculous “dossier.”
“ Russian politicians toasted Trump with champagne they day after the election.” Well, Wolf Blitzer toasted Hillary and the DNC, and consider Hillary was pushing a “no-fly zone” over Syria, I can imagine that there were a lot of Russians glad we avoided WWWIII.
As for Comey being the hold out, it was probably because the DNC would not allow the FBI access to their servers and they had to just rely upon Crowdstrike’s analysis – the company that was paid by the DNC.
The reaction to Trump’s election by the democrats and some republicans is something I’ve never seen before. There is no way that it is all because a couple of low level Trump associates “may” have had contact with Russia. There is something big boiling to a head and I hope it all comes out in the open.
AreWeSure ago
There is something big boiling to a head and I hope it all comes out in the open.
Yes, there is. I don't see Flynn's payment bringing down Trump, it's another piece of evidence in the case. Both Flynn and Trump used to be very anti-Putin and then they weren't. Some time after he published his book Flynn's views changed.
.... illegal recording of a private citizen and leaking to the press.
Not sure what you are referring to here. But it's been reported that the FBI sought and got multiple FISA warrants and I suspect those warrants going back months informed the discussion that Comey just had with the Senate Intelligence Committee. There will be investigations shortly.
The "we avoided WW III" argument is a straight up Kremlin talking point. It's a fallacious argument that any action we take against Putin will equal WW III. It's completely false as the sanction regime is not WW III and it let's Putin off the hook for his actions like annexing Crimea and invading Eastern Ukraine. We have other steps we can take short of WW III.
shooglenifty ago
Hmm. FBI says no laws broke. He was a private citizen and columnist for the RT at the time. I think someone that made it to the top of the DIA can play the spy game much better than us message board surfers. I don't get the animus here, but peace. All will become clear soon.