RE: [Michael Flynn’s] prepared to testify that President Trump, as a candidate, Donald Trump, ordered him — directed him to make contact with the Russians
QUESTION: Let’s say Trump did, is this illegal?
Is it not possible that one would want to talk to the Russians IN ANTICIPATION of an election victory?
Obama did something similar in his campaign. Here’s Kim Strassel of the WALL STREET JOURNAL:
KIM STRASSEL: I think we are having a discussion that is absolutely divorced from reality this week. It is astonishing. Let me set the scene for you. It’s 2008. We are having an election. And candidate Obama, he’s not even president-elect, sends William Miller over to Iran to establish a back channel and let the Iranians know that should he win the election they will have friendlier terms.
Okay, so this is a private citizen going to foreign soil obviously in order to evade U.S. intelligence monitoring and establishing a back channel with a sworn enemy of the United States who was actively disrupting our efforts in the military in the Middle East.
So is that bad judgment? Is that a bad thing that happened? Back channels are completely normal. They happen all the time. Reagan did them. Obama did them. Everyone did. So I’m not quite sure why supposedly having, at least the president’s now elected, setting up a back channel with the Russians is somehow out of bounds.
WHERE’s THE OUTRAGE? WHERE’s THE INVESTIGATION?
He also went to Iraq and asked them to postpone the troop level agreement.