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In their final encounter during the transition following the 2016 election, Donald Trump’s incoming national-security adviser surprised Barack Obama’s outgoing national-security adviser. Susan Rice writes in her memoir that the Michael Flynn she was dealing with had nothing in common with the firebrand she had watched leading a “lock her up” chant against Hillary Clinton at the Republican National Convention a few months earlier. Flynn, a retired general and the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was respectful and subdued, eager for her advice. When Rice extended her hand and wished him the best of luck, Flynn asked her...

President Trump should have purged every single Obama appointee down to the city dog catcher. It is nothing short of astonishing that not one FBI agent came forward and spoke out against this treasonous plot. These agencies are irretrievably broken. …this entire operation was a deliberate and direct attack on the foundation of American governance. As for Barack Hussein Obama, he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and hounded like our great President has been hounded for the past four years. Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation...

News Analysis The case of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is inevitably heading toward its conclusion. While the presiding district judge, Emmet Sullivan, is trying to keep it going, there’s only so much he can do, chiefly because there’s nobody left to prosecute the case after the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped it last month. In the latest developments, the District of Columbia appeals court set a hearing in the case on June 12, while the DOJ’s solicitor general himself, as well as five of his deputies, urged the court to order the lower-court judge to accept the case dismissal. “I...

<p>IT IS FOCUSED ON THE REASONS WHY MICHAEL FLYNN WAS TARGETED. THERE APPEARS TO BE MULTIPLE WAYS THE DEEP STATE WERE TRYING TO HELP HILLARY GET ELECTED. THE FLYNN SAGA IS AN INTRIGUING ONE THAT PROMPTS A QUESTION, WHAT DOES GENERAL FLYNN KNOW? BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE, OBAMA ASKED TRUMP NOT TO HIRE FLYNN. Let’s EXPLORE AND SEE WHY? THOUGH I’VE INCLUDED COMMENTARY IN A FEW PLACES, THE READER IS ULTIMATELY LEFT TO FORM THEIR OWN CONCLUSION. AN IN-DEPT TIMELINE TO INCLUDING ACTIVITIES FROM ’15-17, WILL BE RELEASED AT A LATER DATE. HERE AT THE REPUBLICUS, WE SUPPORT THE RANK AND FILE OF THE FBI, POLICE OFFICERS, BORDER PATROL AGENTS, ICE, THE MILITARY AND ALL OTHER LEOS.</p>

President Trump has defeated Democrats in the intelligence community (IC) who were leaking classified information to the press. Such leaks have been a problem for many presidents, but Trump is the first who took a proactive approach and set up a sting operation that identified the leakers. It’s highly illegal to leak classified information. It’s also illegal to PUBLISH this information, but Trump is too smart to try and prosecute reporters. I thought that Trump would fire members of the IC until the leaks stopped, but the president solved the problem with a much more imaginative and deadly approach: He...

Less than a month in to the new administration, President Trump's National Security Adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, resigned after reports that he had misled his White House colleagues, including Vice President Mike Pence, about conversations he'd had with Russia's ambassador to Washington. In those conversations, Flynn discussed sanctions that the Obama administration had imposed on Russia to punish Moscow for its interference in the U.S. election. Those conversations could have violated the Logan Act, which prevents unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments in relation to "disputes or controversies." The law, however, which was enacted in the 1790s, has never...