Friday, November 24, 2017

So it appears that Trump's former national security adviser has flipped and is now working with the Mueller investigation. And here we go.

Sorry, it's you or me buddy.
Courtesy of the New York Times:

Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, notified the president’s legal team in recent days that they could no longer discuss the special counsel’s investigation, according to four people involved in the case — an indication that Mr. Flynn is cooperating with prosecutors or negotiating a deal. 

Mr. Flynn’s lawyers had been sharing information with Mr. Trump’s lawyers about the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is examining whether anyone around Mr. Trump was involved in Russian efforts to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. 

That agreement has been terminated, the four people said. Defense lawyers frequently share information during investigations, but they must stop when doing so would pose a conflict of interest. It is unethical for lawyers to work together when one client is cooperating with prosecutors and another is still under investigation. 

The notification alone does not prove that Mr. Flynn is cooperating with Mr. Mueller. Some lawyers withdraw from information-sharing arrangements as soon as they begin negotiating with prosecutors. And such negotiations sometimes fall apart.

The Times article goes on to hedge its bets by suggesting that this is not absolute proof that Flynn is cooperating with Mueller, but of course it is.

We have been reading for months how the Mueller team has been working to turn Flynn, and get him to start cooperating, and it appears they have now done exactly that.

Not only that but Trump is clearly worried about it.

I wonder if Mueller can subpoena transcripts of phone calls like this?

I have a feeling that things are really starting to heat up, and that our Christmas Day conversations with those conservative relatives are going to be quite lively indeed.

Especially if Obama's former ethics czar is right about this part.
Love to be a fly on the wall at whatever golf club Trump is wasting taxpayer money at right now. 

56 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:34 AM

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/study-estimates-war-costs-at-5-6-trillion-1510106400

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  2. Anonymous8:38 AM

    “The most delicious moment in the coming days?” Wilson tweeted. “When the thousands and thousands of pro-Trump MAGA accounts (bots and real) who thought Mike Flynn was an American hero turn on him.”
    “‘He was against Trump ALL ALONG.’ ‘Flynn was DEEP STATE…’ ‘TIED TO SOROS…'”
    “If you play Flynn’s ‘Lock her up’ chant backwards, he’s saying, ‘Yes we can!’ in Arabic!'”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/gop-strategist-rick-wilson-predicts-orwellian-fate-for-flynn-if-he-turns-on-trump/

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    1. Anonymous10:06 AM

      epublican strategist Rick Wilson predicted President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” brigade will turn on Mike Flynn now that he may be cooperating with investigators.

      The disgraced former national security adviser’s attorneys have reportedly stopped sharing information about the Russian collusion case with Trump’s legal team, which suggests he may be cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller or trying to cut a plea deal.

      “The most delicious moment in the coming days?” Wilson tweeted. “When the thousands and thousands of pro-Trump MAGA accounts (bots and real) who thought Mike Flynn was an American hero turn on him.”

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    2. Anonymous10:06 AM

      https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/934081722731433985

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    3. Anonymous10:10 AM

      @10;06 "GOP Media Guy, Dad, Husband, Pilot, Hunter, Writer. I make ads and do politics. Daily Beast columnist. Everything Trump Touches Dies."

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  3. Yep. They were saying that Flynn would flip to save his son the worst of it and perhaps reduce his own charges/punishment.

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    1. Anonymous10:15 AM

      Exclusive: Sources: General Flynn ‘Wept’ As He Asked FBI to Spare Mike Flynn Jr
      https://patribotics.blog/2017/11/05/exclusive-sources-general-flynn-wept-as-he-asked-fbi-to-spare-mike-flynn-jr/

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    2. Anonymous10:34 AM

      patribotics.blog lol.

      that is where bill palmer gets his best stuff lolol!

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    3. Anonymous10:42 AM

      Yes nice that he feels bad for his son, but he apparently was quite willing to help kidnap and spirit a Turkish cleric out of the country and to his probable death in return for $millions.

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  4. Anonymous9:40 AM

    Trump's ignorance never ceases to amaze and astonish.

    I wonder if someone has explained to Trump how long the multiple and complicated conflicts in the "Mid_east" have been going on.

    Pop QUiz: MR President, how long has this "mess that you inherited" ben going on?

    Don: uh. 50 years?

    Try 4000 years asshole!

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    1. Anonymous5:10 PM

      But,but,but he is the great and almighty Donald trump, he will make the best deal, just as soon as he stops talking about himself.

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  5. Anonymous10:05 AM

    OT?
    "H"To all my Deplorable friends, I am extremely thankful to each and every one of you for just being who you are, Great Americans! Happy Thanksgiving to all!!"

    "a great guy (with great ratings)!" <dotard

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  6. Anonymous10:08 AM

    Trump said having a sitting president under criminal investigation would result in a “constitutional crisis.”

    “She’s likely to be under investigation for criminality for a very, very long time to come,” Trump said during a Oct. 31, 2016 speech in Warren, Mich.

    Time for Trump to eat his own words.

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  7. Anonymous10:11 AM

    LOL "They are gonna have to start frisking Jared for a wire in the Oval. " All he wanted to do was to bring peace to the Middle East, boo hoo. Princess Ivanka, feeling a sqeeze? She can't go down, she has so much to do for mothers and women.

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  8. Anonymous10:26 AM

    Trump attempts to prove he doesn’t dislike black athletes by playing golf with the whitest black guy to ever swing a club. Oh those womanizers love to bond.

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    1. Anonymous12:04 PM

      hahahahahaha
      They sure DO!

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    2. Anonymous2:28 PM

      60K A blow...

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    3. Anonymous3:04 PM

      Next A murder tOO? OJ"Gridiron GREAT has been ordered to take a cold shower while his lawyer looks into whether a visit to the Bunny Ranch would violate terms of his Nevada parole."
      "The Juice is lOOse and so are his hormones."
      " Simpson buddy Tom Scotto had called looking for “a Nicole Brown look-a-like.”
      "“There are still a lot of moving parts,” Hof said. “It all depends on O.J.’s schedules and meeting with the parole officers. It’s going to happen. The Bunny Ranch and the Bunny Ranch girls are anxious for O.J.’s visit.”
      “O.J., Juice … Come visit me,” she cooed in a now-deleted Instagram post that included her phone number. “I’m single. Those hands turn me up and on! The way they fit in that glove nice and tight ….”
      "The 5,000-square-foot home is in a gated community with a golf club."<Simpson, 70

      https://pagesix.com/2017/10/07/o-j-simpson-looking-to-spend-his-free-time-at-the-bunny-ranch/

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    4. Anonymous5:52 PM

      ISIS The 'golf Dubai DEAL' back on with 'T'iger?

      http://www.golfchannel.com/article/golf-central-blog/woods-trump-teaming-course-dubai/

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  9. Anonymous10:30 AM

    'Sorry, it's youR $ons or ME boy~ buddy'.

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  10. Anonymous10:34 AM

    (THREAD) Here's a brief itemization of the factual errors in the New York Times' breaking news story, below, about Michael Flynn possibly having signed a cooperation deal with Bob Mueller. The errors are inexplicable, and it's important they be called out.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/933903761050865665

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    1. Anonymous11:03 AM

      https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/933582030327177216

      "(THREAD) BREAKING: Allegations Trump spoke to Putin via speakerphone at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, discussing both his plan to run for president and his desire to see Trump Tower Moscow built with Putin's blessing—implying a quid pro quo—are 90% confirmed. Please read/share."

      "NYT is correct. Flynn's ties–to Russia predate Trump's 2016 campaign launch. In 2013, Flynn (then-DIA chief) became first US intel official allowed inside Russian military spy agency, GRU, which USIC say hacked the DNC. Trump's ties to Russia go back to the 80s"

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    2. Is Bill Palmer calling himself Seth Abramson now?

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  11. Anonymous10:35 AM

    NEWSWEEK has picked up my legal and journalistic analyses of the recent NYT article on Flynn. Hope you'll see my pinned tweet for more—the facts and background the NYT got wrong is going to be absolutely critical to the future of the Mueller probe and America's discussion of it.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/934117025705754625

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    1. I don't get my news from Twitter or Facebook. Neither are reliable, credible sources.

      I also neither know nor care who Seth Abramson is.

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    2. Anonymous5:17 PM

      Well 3:21 maybe you should do some research before dishing Seth Abramson and no he is not bill palmer.

      Hint:attorney journalist ABC news but I am sure you know more than him and have more inside sources in Washington than he does!

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  12. Anonymous10:36 AM

    (1) Trump launched his campaign in June 2015, not 2016 as you said.
    (2) I'm not saying Flynn's ties don't predate June 2015; I'm saying the example the NYT gave was a false example, as it did *not* "predate the campaign" and is the closest he ever came to Putin.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/934126283155525633

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  13. Anonymous10:37 AM

    (THREAD) BREAKING: Allegations Trump spoke to Putin via speakerphone at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, discussing both his plan to run for president and his desire to see Trump Tower Moscow built with Putin's blessing—implying a quid pro quo—are 90% confirmed. Please read/share.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/933582030327177216

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  14. Anonymous10:40 AM

    'Are you seriously suggesting the New York Times is "pro-Trump"? Really?'

    I've worked 2,000+ criminal cases in the United States. This is the most favorable investigative and media coverage I've ever seen a defendant receive—and the most ungrateful reception of that investigation and coverage from a defendant's "fan base" that I've ever seen.

    So yes.

    https://twitter.com/keithbaldrey/status/933926116066172928

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/933925411754528768

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  15. Anonymous10:43 AM

    Putin’s Strategy of Global Tension

    Ever since Moscow’s Little Green Men seized Crimea in early 2014, we’ve been in a new Cold War with Russia. To the consternation of wishful-thinkers, as Vladimir Putin’s confrontation with the West has become transparent, the reality of what I termed Cold War 2.0 almost four years ago has grown difficult to deny. Since the Kremlin’s revanchism is driving this conflict, we’re in it whether we want to be or not.

    Europe is the central front in Cold War 2.0, thanks to geography and history. Putin’s war on, and in, Ukraine continues on low boil, while the Russian military regularly delivers provocations—a too-close warship here, an aircraft buzz there—all along NATO’s eastern frontier, sending an aggressive message. Major military exercises like September’s Zapad mega-wargame demonstrate Putin’s seriousness about confronting the Atlantic Alliance.

    What Putin wants was the subject of my recent interview with Antoni Macierewicz, Poland’s plain-spoken defense minister. What the Kremlin boss seeks, he explained, is restoration of the Russian empire, to which Ukraine (or at least most of it) belonged for centuries. “Putin understands that there is no empire without Ukraine,” he added.

    However, Kremlin provocations extend far beyond the former Soviet Union, as Macierewicz elaborated:

    https://20committee.com/2017/11/21/putins-strategy-of-global-tension/

    http://observer.com/2017/11/putin-causes-global-tension-by-aiding-iran-cuba-venezuela-syria/

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    1. Anonymous4:34 PM

      Be careful what you wish for. Idiots.

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  16. Anonymous11:15 AM

    If Flynn Is Cooperating With Mueller, Then Case Against Trump Gets Much More Serious

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-michael-flynn-is-cooperating-with-robert-mueller-then-case-against-donald-trump-gets-much-more-serious

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  17. Anonymous11:18 AM

    Not too sure about this Abramson. Trump's call to the Turkish leader, on the heels of the announcement Flynn's lawyers signalling a deal with Mueller, creates suspicion about whose life is being put in danger by connecting with a dictator. Hmmm!

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    1. Anonymous11:33 AM

      Seth is regularly interviewed about politics and higher education by domestic and International media. Recent interviews include the BBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, ABC Radio, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Magazine, and The New England Review of Books. Seth's essays have also been widely cited, including discussions on CNBC, PBS, FNC, BET, and NPR, as well as in Politico, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy, Slate, and Pitchfork.

      http://www.sethabramson.net/bio

      http://www.sethabramson.net/media

      http://www.sethabramson.net/

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    2. Anonymous11:37 AM

      http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/trump-complains-players-boss-nfl-51358972

      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-24/turkey-says-trump-promised-to-halt-u-s-arming-of-syrian-kurds

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    3. Anonymous2:16 PM

      Distractions. That's ALL it is. Any of it. Shrug.

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    4. Kellyanus Conjob is regularly interviewed too.

      And yet she is a liar. Unreliable. No credibility whatsoever.

      Again, don't get my info from Twitter or Facebook. If Seth wants to be taken seriously, then he'll have to get a real job with a real, reliable media outlet and be vetted by them. Obviously Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars and the like do not count.

      Let him be employed by and printed in the Washington Post, New York Times or The New Yorker and maybe I'll start paying attention to his OPINION.

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    5. Anonymous5:24 PM

      Again 3:29 just because YOU have no clue who Seth Abramson is means nothing.he is a regular contributor to ABC news.

      I would take his opinion any day over yours,especially since you feel the need to disparage his opinion without even knowing anything about him

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  18. Anonymous12:07 PM

    Okay, fess up. Who helped him type "Recep Tayyip Erdogan" at 4:00 AM?

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    1. Anonymous4:08 PM

      R U babysitter?

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    2. Anonymous8:52 PM

      Hope Hicks is in charge of transcribing tweety fingers tweets.

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  19. Anonymous12:08 PM

    If Flynn Flips, Trump, Jared Kushner, and Don Jr. Could All Be Going Down For Russia Crimes

    'I negotiated a cooperation deal for a target with Mueller's office when he was US Atty and lemme tell ya, he's not gonna give one to Flynn unless he implicates someone up the ladder. That means Kushner, Don Jr., or Big Daddy. They are all having indigestion tonight.'

    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/24/flynn-flips-trump-jared-kushner-don-jr-russia-crimes.html

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  20. Anonymous12:16 PM

    Hours after Michael Flynn reveals he’s cutting a deal, Donald Trump makes suspicious phone call

    ...The timing here cannot be overlooked. Michael Flynn was on the payroll of the government of Turkey during the campaign and the transition period. One of the crimes he’s accused of is conspiring with Turkey to kidnap a cleric in Pennsylvania and ship him overseas. Now, just hours after Flynn decided to negotiate a plea deal against Trump, Trump is suddenly on the phone with the leader of Turkey. It gets stranger...

    http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/phone-turkey-trump/6210/

    Did Donald Trump just publicly threaten Michael Flynn’s safety?

    ...This phone call, and in particular the tweet announcing it, were intended to send a message to Michael Flynn. But legally speaking, at this point there is nothing that Trump or Turkey can do to Flynn. It sure sounds like Trump is hinting to Flynn that Turkey’s lawless regime might put his safety at risk if he goes through with the deal. Keep in mind that Flynn is flipping to protect his son from criminal prosecution. Is this a threat against Flynn’s son’s safety? If that sounds like it might be a stretch, keep in mind that just a week ago, Trump bizarrely insisted “people will die” if the Trump-Russia investigation continues.

    http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/threaten-michael-flynn-trump/6213/

    Michael Flynn just ruined Mike Pence’s life

    ...We still don’t know for sure why he did it, but Vice President Mike Pence has been covering for Michael Flynn for at least the past year. Congress notified Pence in November that Flynn was criminally on the take from the government of Turkey, yet Pence did nothing to prevent Flynn from being appointed National Security Adviser. Pence then went on national television and lied about knowing of Flynn’s foreign entanglements.

    Was Mike Pence trying to protect himself because he was also a part of the Trump-Russia-Turkey conspiracy, or was Pence merely protecting Michael Flynn in order to keep his administration from falling apart? Now that Flynn is squealing, we’re about to find out the answer. Even if Pence wasn’t in on the original criminal conspiracy, he appears to have committed obstruction of justice by trying to cover it up after the fact.

    http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/mike-pence-michael-flynn/6212/

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    1. Jeebus, Bill Palmer's fucking opinion again?

      You never give up, do you Bill?

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    2. Anonymous6:11 PM

      Trump is full of hot air...

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  21. Anonymous12:18 PM

    Robert Mueller nabs Trump-Russia hacker at the worst possible time for Donald Trump

    ...An infamous Russian hacker, believed to be near the center of the Trump-Russia election hacking scandal, is being extradited to the United States so that the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller can have their way with him.

    The Czech Republic has ruled that Russian hacker Yevgeny Nikulin will be extradited to the United States, and not returned to Russia, according to a new report from Radio Free Europe (link). Nikulin’s attorney has revealed that the FBI believes Nikulin was involved in Trump-Russia election hacking. Mueller has jurisdiction over the FBI in all matters relating to the Trump-Russia scandal, which means that Nikulin is now all his.

    So now, even as Robert Mueller is gaining Michael Flynn as a cooperating witness with valuable information about the Trump campaign’s sign of Trump-Russia collusion, he’s also gaining a hacker with insider information on the Russian side of the collusion. There is no guarantee that Nikulin will cut a deal once he arrives in the United States. But assuming he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life rotting in an American prison, it’s likely that he’ll work something out with Mueller and spill his guts.

    http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/hacker-robert-mueller/6215/

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    1. Anonymous6:12 PM

      Aw, is that why Vlads all prissy? Coming undone is it

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    2. Anonymous7:15 PM

      American prison still better than Siberia.

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  22. Anonymous12:26 PM

    ‘All because Trump fired Comey’: Cuomo guest explains GOP fears ‘huge’ Mueller finding just before midterms

    ...During a discussion on reports that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn may have flipped on President Donald Trump, Washington Examiner reporter David Drucker said Republicans worry that that the Mueller investigation may be so huge now that it could bleed well into 2018.

    “Look, we know this investigation really irritates President Trump. and people closest to him find it to be very distracting,” Drucker told host Cuomo. “I think that the bigger danger is not so much Trump because there’s more at the moment. There’s more time for this to play out before he goes in front of the voters again in 2020.”

    “Republicans on Capitol Hill are concerned about the length of the investigation as it relates to the 2018 elections,” he continued. “Could Mueller come up with a big finding just before the election next year that could put the Republicans further on defense? They’re on the ballot next year and he is not.”

    “Initially they were pleased to see special counsel because it got them off the hook for what they were supposed to do about this potential problem with Trump, his campaign, and the Russians,” Drucker continued to explain. “Then they realized this is completely out of their control. They have no control of the timing. They don’t know what they’re going to find. They don’t know how it’s going to look. Now they are, in a sense, at the mercy of the president but not just the president. Whatever it is the president or people close to him might have done during the last campaign may impact them in the next campaign.”

    Summing up the various paths Mueller appears to be following, and how the Trump investigation seems to continually be expanding, host Cuomo laughed and explained, “All because he fired Comey.”

    Watch the video below via CNN:

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/all-because-trump-fired-comey-cuomo-guest-explains-gop-fears-huge-mueller-finding-just-before-midterms/

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    1. Anonymous6:11 PM

      Boo hoo hoo, let me get out my little violin.they should have thought about this before they nominated a traitor and sex offender

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  23. Anonymous12:30 PM

    ‘He knows something really significant’: Ex-Watergate prosecutor says Flynn must have busted Trump or his family members

    ...“Unless Flynn can give him Jared Kushner, Don Jr, or the president, he’s not of value to him and he would prosecute him for the numerous crimes that he’s being investigated for.”

    “I’m suspecting that because Donald Trump protected him so much, he knows something really significant about the president or his son or his son-in-law, and that’s the only reason that the president would have been so concerned about him in particular,” Wine-Banks concluded.

    Watch:

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/he-knows-something-really-significant-ex-watergate-prosecutor-says-flynn-must-have-busted-trump-or-his-family-members/

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  24. Anonymous1:25 PM

    Donald Trump's Shady Ties to Russia: The Daily Show

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HYe9VdOGIQ

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    1. Anonymous2:18 PM

      Mr. Donald fails to listen.
      He has been told 5 times.
      Let the world change...
      It will Never be the same.
      You can thank him for war.

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    2. Anonymous6:14 PM

      And you can bet Cheney is chomping at the bit for war.

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  25. Anonymous4:06 PM

    Bombshell report reveals new details about Trump's Oval Office meeting with Russians after he fired Comey

    http://www.businessinsider.com/bombshell-report-trump-oval-office-meeting-russians-comey-2017-11

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  26. Anonymous6:21 PM

    If Flynn was willing to sell out his county, why wouldn't he sell out trump and his band of traitors?
    If found guilty,they better strip him of his military title,pension and benefits, oops forgot,we pay for his prison room and board.well maybe they should make him work it off making license plates.
    As someone who found Hillary guilty with no evidence or trial,I say he should receive the same treatment:LOCK HIM UP

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