Flynn resigns amid controversy over Russia contacts

CNN ^ | February 13, 2017 | Sara Murray, Gloria Borger and Jeremy Diamond

[rdl6989]

Washington (CNN)Embattled White House national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned Monday night, two sources tell CNN. His departure came just after reports surfaced the Justice Department warned the Trump administration last month that Flynn misled administration officials regarding his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States and was potentially vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians.

[JohnBrowdie]

yeah, sure. the simple fact that you think twitter needs to be “analyzed” proves that you are giving it infinitely more credit than it deserves — which is to be expected since your “analysis” is, as of the current date, a whole year old.

twitter is a vast intellectual wasteland. it is a massive pile of anonymous, unverified, unreliable, inconceivably ridiculous hysteria delivered by every moron that can afford broadband (or a wireless data plan) in 140 character snippets of depraved idiocy.

I know you think this is heresy. I understand that you think there is some sort of profound truth to be found in a billion people all talking trash at once. I think it’s at best annoying as hell, at quite possibly eroding what’s left of western culture 100 charcters at a time.

thanks for asking.

(and it doesn’t become an instant pillar of universal respectability simply because donald trump uses it to blast people that we all hate. it simply proves that something can’t be 100% contemptible; even the most useless thing in the universe has some use every now and then)

[KavMan]

I HATE THIS POLITICALLY CORRECT TRUMP! HE NEEDS TO FIRE ALL HIS POLITICALLY CORRECT ADVISORS!!!

1ST IT WAS MONICA CROWLEY & NOW FLYNN!!! I'M GETTING PISSED!!!!!

I WANT THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT TRUMP BACK!!! 😡😡😡

[ichabod1]

Mr. Trump has that commitment to never backing down when he thinks he’s in the right so if he let him go, he must have his reasons.

[9YearLurker]

I suspect things are not that simple.

[Morpheus2009]

Yeah, that’s true. But sadly plenty of people in high positions are caught up in an absolute need for cognitive dissonance, so hardly anyone can tell.

[romanesq]

You’re on the right track. I’d hope the revamped EO is ready for signature. Then at least he can announce it and then set up the signing ceremony.

But I fear we’re not going to be so fortunate. So it’s a 48 hour Leftstream media cesspool. It’s already underway.

Even Hillary is up from her coma tweeting about it (or her staff is).

[ichabod1]

Of course they are not that simple, but sometimes I find it helpful to apply Mr. Trump’s known philosophy to a situation to help me read what is going on. If Flynn were clean I think he’d back him bigly.

[Morpheus2009]

Hillary, running a bad campaign that took things for granted, barely lost to Trump. Pence would lose big time. Sorry, but Pence just doesn’t have the level of strategy and fighting spirit that Trump does.

[b4its2late]

Flynn has opened himself up to a thorough investigation now and the Dems will demand it.

[pollywog]

Pence is GREAT!! He would win in a heart beat!!

[Morpheus2009]

Nice guy, sure, but what would he do about all the accusations and hype about him? We can go over what ifs now, but at least Trump has a reason for centrists and leftists to want him to stay alive, since someone more right than him will take over if he dies.

[wardaddy]

Looks today it’s a concerted effort of leakers beyond inter White House strife

From Career libs in the security apparatus of the country

[Enlightened1]

[blackberry1]

Word to the wise. Only violations of law, no matter how dated, can bring you down.

There will be mistakes along the way...just don’t transgress anything legally.

[Archon of the East]

Forgive me for my ignorance but the left is trying to cast this as possibly impeachable? Why is a conversation between flynn and Russian ambassador about anything an issue?

[rdl6989]

The mad-dog crazy left is desperate to latch onto anything it can.

[kiryandil]

I'm glad that you've weighed in with your political ignorance, JB.

Not that it increases my knowledge - just that people understand your lack of it. 😀

You wrote, in your ignorance: " which is to be expected since your “analysis” is, as of the current date, a whole year old."

I wrote that I've been analyzing Twitter since October 2016. An ongoing endeavour, to be sure, but not "a whole year old", as you represented falsely.

Pretty sure that my continuing analysis is mere minutes old, after roughly 4 and a half months.

But I waste my time with you. Enjoy stewing in your solipsism, palsie. 😀

[kiryandil]

The game is to get Trump out or tied up so he can't appoint any Supreme Court justices.

It's really that simple.

The "tell" will be when the Democrats refuse to confirm Gorsuch "because Trump's future is in doubt", and the #FakeStreamMedia will begin a 24/7 artillery barrage to support that gambit.

If we see that, we'll know it's time to take the gloves off, PERMANENTLY.

[IWONDR]

“I smell a rat in all this. The media and the left now has its Russia conspiracy narrative at full blast now and will be hanging it around the administration’s neck. I’m so sick of this. The media that didn’t do sh*t for eight years is going all out 24/7 to try and wreck this presidency.”

exactly. who will those quisling obama holdovers in the justice dept and national security community go after next. Trump should have forgiven Flynn as this ouster plays right into the hands of those who will do whatever it takes to take down Trump.

see this excerpt: “The abrupt resignation Monday evening of White House national security adviser Michael Flynn is the culmination of a secret, months-long campaign by former Obama administration confidantes to handicap President Donald Trump’s national security apparatus and preserve the nuclear deal with Iran, according to multiple sources in and out of the White House who described to the Washington Free Beacon a behind-the-scenes effort by these officials to plant a series of damaging stories about Flynn in the national media.

The effort, said to include former Obama administration adviser Ben Rhodes—the architect of a separate White House effort to create what he described as a pro-Iran echo chamber—included a small task force of Obama loyalists who deluged media outlets with stories aimed at eroding Flynn’s credibility, multiple sources revealed.

The operation primarily focused on discrediting Flynn, an opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, in order to handicap the Trump administration’s efforts to disclose secret details of the nuclear deal with Iran that had been long hidden by the Obama administration.”

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/former-obama-officials-loyalists-waged-campaign-oust-flynn/

Trump needs to ensure that Flynn’s successor identifies and publishes the secret deals that Obama made with the Iranians as soon as possible.

[IWONDR]

“Justice Dept: Flynn “Could be subject to blackmail.”

why would the justus dept be concerned about blackmail now when Hillary and Obama were so vulnerable and crooked themselves and nary a peep from them then???