President Donald Trump pressured a “reluctant” Michael Flynn into accepting a job as the White House’s top national security official even after Flynn warned the president that he was under investigation over undisclosed lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, The Daily Beast has learned.
The president’s continued loyalty to his ousted former aide is so strong, in fact, that the two have remained in touch despite the potential that their communication could be portrayed as White House interference in a federal investigation.
That's right even though both Flynn and Trump are both the subject of numerous investigations, they are still texting and calling each other like Middle School gossips.
And this despite the fact that Trump's lawyers have warned him to knock this shit off:
White House lawyers have had to warn President Donald Trump repeatedly against reaching out to his fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter tell The Daily Beast.
Trump, angered by press coverage of the Russia investigation and Gen. Flynn, has asked senior staff and the White House counsel’s office multiple times if it was appropriate to reach out to the fired National Security Adviser, according to a source close to Flynn and a Trump administration official with direct knowledge of the exchanges.
And if that was not shocking enough, Trump STILL wants Flynn back in the White House:
But Trump doesn’t just hope that Flynn will beat the rap. Several sources close to Flynn and to the administration tell The Daily Beast that Trump has expressed his hopes that a resolution of the FBI’s investigation in Flynn’s favor might allow Flynn to rejoin the White House in some capacity—a scenario some of Trump’s closest advisers in and outside the West Wing have assured him absolutely should not happen.
Those sources said Trump didn’t believe Flynn should be under investigation in the first place.
“Trump feels really, really, really bad about firing him, and he genuinely thinks if the investigation is over Flynn can come back,” said one White House official.
I guess that helps to explain why Trump was pressuring Comey to end this investigation, so that Flynn could rejoin him in the White House and they could stay up all night doing each other's hair.
Well considering the fact that this is all kinds of stupid, should we assume that this is just Trump being blindly loyal to a former friend, or is it possible that he is being directed to get Flynn back by somebody else.
You know, somebody who also has a comfortable relationship with Michael Flynn and wants him back advising Trump on national security.
By the way, speaking of investigations, the House Intelligence Committee has now gained access to valuable information from the Treasury Department.
Well gee, now we will know for a fact if Trump has any financial ties with Russia or not.
Like we already don't know the answer to that question.
"Wittes said Comey had discussed several encounters with Trump that had troubled him, including a ceremony for law-enforcement officials in the Blue Room in January, two days after Trump was inaugurated."
ReplyDelete"Comey's plan failed.
Trump told those in the room that the FBI director had "become more famous" than HIM. "Comey then walked up to Trump, who tried to hug Comey. Wittes said Comey was determined to not engage in such an embrace."
"Comey said that as he was walking across the room he was determined that there wasn't going to be a hug," Wittes said. "It was bad enough there was going to be a handshake. And Comey has long arms, so Comey said he preemptively reached out for a handshake and grabbed the president's hand. But Trump pulled him into an embrace and Comey didn't reciprocate. If you look at the video, it's one person shaking hands and another hugging."
http://www.businessinsider.com/james-comey-white-house-curtains-trump-2017-5
1st>BLOW's C a Ki$$!
http://www.bipartisanreport.com/2017/01/22/did-president-trump-really-just-blow-fbi-director-comey-a-kiss-on-camera-video/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-aide-shares-debate-prep-video-unwanted-trump-hug
Delete"Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Philippe Reines on Friday shared a video of himself almost violently hugging his boss" shared the video of prep for what he dubbed “the unwanted Trump hug” one of Trump’s well-known maneuvers, seemingly meant to turn a handshake into a judo-inspired show of dominance.
“Comey was disgusted,” Wittes wrote. “He regarded the episode as a physical attempt to show closeness and warmth in a fashion calculated to compromise him before Democrats who already mistrusted him.”
OT? HRC HRC
ReplyDeletehttps://thinkprogress.org/graham-says-congress-should-abandon-russia-look-at-emails-instead-bd9ebc32a78
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/321933-graham-special-prosecutor-necessary-if-fbi-finds-criminal-activity-in-russia
Mc$hame and Lady Lindsey 'to-get-her' again.
Fuck Graham.
DeleteSorry can't do that with Trump's dick up geaham's ass.
What is Franklin Graham up to lately?
Delete"Top officials from the National Rifle Association, whose annual meeting Friday featured an address by Trump for the third time in three years, traveled to Moscow to visit a Russian gun manufacturer and meet government officials.
About the same time in December 2015, evangelist Franklin Graham met privately with Putin for 45 minutes, securing from the Russian president an offer to help with an upcoming conference on the persecution of Christians. Graham was impressed, telling The Washington Post that Putin “answers questions very directly and doesn’t dodge them like a lot of our politicians do.”
That was the takeaway for Graham, the North Carolina-based evangelist, after his November 2015 Kremlin meeting with Putin.
The last time Graham had visited Moscow, with his father, Billy Graham, in the 1980s, the practice of religion was prohibited. On this trip, he said, conditions for Christians in Russia remained difficult. But Graham recalled that Putin listened as he described evangelical Christianity and the challenges facing Christians around the world. Putin explained that his mother kept her Christian faith even during the darkest days of atheistic communist rule.
“He understood,” Graham said of the Russian leader. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-republican-right-found-allies-in-russia/2017/04/30/e2d83ff6-29d3-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/19/frustration-outrage-builds-democrats-useless-deputy-ag-briefing-comey-firing.html
ReplyDelete"convinced that they couldn't trust anything that the Trump administration says."
"Democrats were not impressed at all:"The fact that this administration is avoiding honesty like it is a fatal disease suggests that what happened during the 2016 campaign is bad enough to topple this presidency.
Republicans continue to try to move the goalposts by moving the focus of the investigation on to Russia. "The fact that Democrats came out of the briefing frustrated and angry is a good sign. House Democrats are hungry for the TRUTH, and they are going to continue to question and fight for a real investigation until they get it."
I truly believe Flynn knows damaging information against Trump, his businesses, his Russian connections, his administration and his campaign.
ReplyDeleteTrump is desperate to prevent Flynn from flipping and making any deals for immunity.
Trump is showing more attention to Flynn than he does to Melania.
Flynn is $hitgibbon drumpf's HERo aka
DeleteAmerican IDOL chimp-Pee-on
I watched Trump and his wife board the plane together....it's obvious they have seen the press commentary as to Trump not assisting her and always boarding ahead of her!
DeleteHe did better this time - only walked a couple of steps ahead of her while ascending the steps to the door of the plane.
She doesn't smile - they don't smile at each other and it's so obvious she hates his guts! Under her circumstances I wouldn't want to be his First Lady either! Cannot imagine putting up w/him on a daily basis. Don't they live on two separate floors of Trump Towers?
@11:17 Bet $he had to lay out Naked again for him/other$ on the plane? Long flight...Air Force One
Deletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/longtime-trump-backer-fears-the-president-has-become-a-paranoid-snowflake/
ReplyDelete"While I cannot confirm any briefings or requests made by the House Intelligence Committee, I will say that examining financial records and transactions is absolutely crucial to our investigatory effort," Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Russia investigation"
ReplyDeleteThe problem is they're not going to find anything. All the shady stuff is done through shell corporations. You're not going to see "received $10 million from Russia" on his tax forms.
DeleteI read that they are also asked for info from the treasury dept area that deals specifically with shell corporations, can’t find the link right now.
DeleteIt was difficult to understand his love for Flynn. I thought it was due to Flynn's bitterness and hatred to Obama and Hillary. Also, Trump isn't happy with McMaster who continually tries to keep him out of trouble and tells him what to do while Flynn probably kissed the guy's ass unbelievable hard on everything he wasn't getting paid to oppose. Flynn has a vendetta against Obama for flirting him, what better way to get even than get Trump in the White House and do Putin's bidding.
ReplyDeleteIsn't butt love sometimes hidden?
DeleteWho is the bottom?
The sooner we get this bunch of garbage out of our life the better. I want the most extreme environmental president ever for our new president. This assclown show is awful. When the water food soil and air is sold to corruption and thugs our life is over. Our fellow americans, pets and children are suffering now today from this outrageous unregulated environmental mess. We the people must stop the contamination. Limit cell phone use to head. Drink, shower, and cook using filtered water. We must demand mining clean up. We must hold them accountable from fracking and chemicals used.
ReplyDeleteOmg, this is really the mafia!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhen you get out, taken in again!
POS! AS USA PREZ!!!
1. Get Trump's tax returns.
ReplyDelete2. Gain access to all of Trump's personal & business bank accounts & transactions and connect who he associated with on any financial deals.
3. Focus on that Palm Beach mansion purchase by the Russian (mafia) for $95 million dollars, when Trump only paid $41 million a few years earlier. The Russian NEVER lived in the house and eventually tore it down! Smells like illegal money laundering to me and Trump is smack-dab in the middle of it.
4. Get the IRS and the top Forensic Accountants to follow the money trail.
5. Trump is burnt toast.
Wasn't this a movie, the accountant.
DeleteTrump wants Flynn to head the FBI?
ReplyDeleteYou can't impeach this POS fast enough to protect this country.
Trump is nothing more than an ignorant jerk! I detest the man more and more every day. May he be impeached, put in jail or ascend into Hell - which we all know is his destination IF you are a Christian!
ReplyDeleteWashington Post out with another great story about someone currently in the White House, close to Trump, being investigated for Russian ties...Kushner? Tillerson?
ReplyDeleteNYT...quotes Trump with Russions saying that now things will be easy without the nut job, Comey, in the way!
WTF???
I would just really like to thank all the reporters and leakers of information. Be safe.
ReplyDeleteTrump knows that all of the people under investigation can rat on him for lesser sentence and they will. He is trying hard to keep pressure on these people to remain loyal to him which they will not in the end. The guy is a chronic lair. Lets hope he is taken off air force one in handcuffs and charged with obstruction of justice on his return.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/trump-michael-flynn-firing-mistake-aides-238618
ReplyDelete"He told New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that he could still be labor secretary even after he’d publicly named Alexander Acosta to the role. He privately told former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani he could potentially still name him as attorney general after he’d offered Jeff Sessions to the job.Trump has grown obsessed with defending the tough-talking 58-year old general, repeatedly telling aides and associates in private that Flynn was a “good man.” One adviser close to Trump said he’s heard Trump defend the general using the exact words described in reports of memos written by former FBI director James Comey recording his conversations with the president — and that Trump has told people inside the White House he wished the investigation would go away."“A lot of people in the White House don’t want anything to do with Flynn,” one White House official said. ”But Trump loves him. He thinks everyone is out to get him.”o some who know Trump, the president’s constant need to defend Flynn seems to be out of self-preservation. Trump, who liked employees to sign nondisclosure agreements, knows Flynn had at least one private meeting with Trump adviser Jared Kushner and Russian officials, and has been in the room for dozens of other sensitive meetings."“Once you fire Mike Flynn, he loses all executive privilege.”White House officials said Trump has told people to pass warm messages to Flynn if they speak to him."
"Trump also continues to talk to Lewandowski, who is considered as a candidate to join the administration.
Lewandowski said he has not spoken with anyone about joining the administration, even though officials say he has spoken to Trump and White House aides several times this week."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/trump-michael-flynn-firing-mistake-aides-238618
He wants him back? Maybe we can arrange for them to share a cell together.
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