Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before Naming Him National Security Adviser

[ABX]

The New York Times is reporting that the Trump transition team knew that retired Lt. General Michael Flynn was under investigation prior to naming him as Trump’s choice for National Security Adviser:

    WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn told President Trump’s transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign, according to two people familiar with the case.


Read more: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/trump-team-knew-flynn-was-under-investigation-before-naming-him-national-security-adviser/#ixzz4hUPrxJ00

[geronl]

wow, so they purposely appointed a foreign agent to such a sensitive position... insane

[Mom MD]

and they thought this wouldn't be found out?  Or worse yet they thought it didn't matter?  This shows the Trump team to be inept at best and bordering on treasonous at worst....

[libertybele]

Yet another story by the NY Times.   

[EC]

Fox better for you?

Weeks before President Trump's inauguration, Michael Flynn told the transition team he was under federal investigation for working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign, the New York Times reported late Wednesday.

The disclosure by Flynn on Jan. 4 was first made to then-Trump transition team lawyer Donald F. McGahn II, who is now the White House counsel, two people familiar with the case told the newspaper.

Flynn's conversation with the transition team came a month after the Justice Department notified Flynn he was under investigation, according to the Times.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/17/trump-transition-team-knew-flynn-was-under-investigation-before-inauguration-report-says.html

[txradioguy]

Yet another story by the NY Times.   

Funny thing about crying wolf at everything that comes out in the news...you sometimes miss articles that contain factual evidence.  Even from sources you don't like.

[kevindavis007]

Funny thing about crying wolf at everything that comes out in the news...you sometimes miss articles that contain factual evidence.  Even from sources you don't like.

But it is OK, to cry wolf about Deep State...

[txradioguy]

@kevindavis I've never bought into that "Deep State" crap.

Too Alex Jones-ish and tinfoil hat for me. 

[kevindavis007]

@kevindavis I've never bought into that "Deep State" crap.

Too Alex Jones-ish and tinfoil hat for me.

I agree, way to Alex Jones-ish...

[Cripplecreek]

@kevindavis I've never bought into that "Deep State" crap.

Too Alex Jones-ish and tinfoil hat for me.

When I see people using the term "Deep state" I just write them off as someone not to be taken seriously. It ranks right up there with those who call anything they don't agree with "Fake news".

[txradioguy]

When I see people using the term "Deep state" I just write them off as someone not to be taken seriously. It ranks right up there with those who call anything they don't agree with "Fake news".

Exactly.

[Rivergirl]

Reading that Jamie Gorelick had high praise for Rosenstein.
So much for clearing the swamp.   Nothing more than re-arranging the alligators so as not to show their jaws.
Writing a scathing screed on Comey to give Trump cover for the firing is pathetic.  Can no one say NO to this man-child.

[Rivergirl]

Funny thing about crying wolf at everything that comes out in the news...you sometimes miss articles that contain factual evidence.  Even from sources you don't like.

Congressman Cummings stated publicly that he wrote to Pence months ago that Flynn was under investigation.   Now we have Pence declaring...he knew nothing.........nope not me.......no way.....no how.
Sold his soul using his religiosity as a shield.  Blech.

[Cripplecreek]

Reading that Jamie Gorelick had high praise for Rosenstein.
So much for clearing the swamp.   Nothing more than re-arranging the alligators so as not to show their jaws.
Writing a scathing screed on Comey to give Trump cover for the firing is pathetic.  Can no one say NO to this man-child.

Its kinda funny how the simple Trumpers flap their jowls about the "Deep State" yet somehow manage to overlook Jamie Gorelick working for Ivanka and her husband. If there is anyone who fits the description of a "deep state" operative its Gorelick yet Trumpers magically manage to overlook her.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Good morning.

Since we now have a special counsel handling this ... can we start posting all things "Russia" in the Scandal Watch section?  It would be nice to allow room for other political issues to be discussed.

Thanks for considering.

@mystery-ak
@Mod2 @Mod2 @MOD3 @MOD4 @MOD8

[DiogenesLamp]

Trump Team Knew Flynn Was Under Investigation Before Naming Him National Security Adviser

By the *OBAMA* Cartel.    It's not like it was a real investigation based on real evidence,   it was just another manifestation of Obama's efforts to push this stupid "Russians rigged the election"  meme to explain to exploding head liberals why Hillary lost. 



Any rational person at the time would have recognized it as some more Obama government phoney baloney propaganda,   and would not have taken it seriously at all.   

[DiogenesLamp]

@kevindavis I've never bought into that "Deep State" crap.

Too Alex Jones-ish and tinfoil hat for me.

When I see people using the term "Deep state" I just write them off as someone not to be taken seriously. It ranks right up there with those who call anything they don't agree with "Fake news".

Three of you in a row.   No wonder I don't take any of you seriously,   you simply have no conception of what is actually going on in this nation.   


Yes,  there is a *Deep State*,   and yes they do work to further their own self interests.   They are the career Bureaucrats in Washington,   and growing the government and accumulating more power is what they regard as being in their best interest. 

The Federal Government employees are something like 80% Democrat.   If you think they don't want to use the powers of their office to further their politics,  you are naive. 


People like Erick Holder and Lois Learner are not isolated rarities,  they are the norm in that environment. 


They *are*  the Deep State.   

[ABX]

Good morning.

Since we now have a special counsel handling this ... can we start posting all things "Russia" in the Scandal Watch section?  It would be nice to allow room for other political issues to be discussed.

Thanks for considering.

@mystery-ak
@Mod2 @Mod2 @MOD3 @MOD4 @MOD8

That's actually a good idea. "Scandal Watch" is actually a top feeding category to Bing News and Twitter. We moved it to a primary feed for those when we had so many Obama/Hillary scandals as well as all the Podesta/Wikileak emails.

If we move specific scandal articles to the Scandal Watch, it will actually bump it up in media feeds and make it higher priority than to be buried in politics.

I'm surprised you want more eyes on those articles versus just treating them like politics as usual, but we could do this if you insist.

[ABX]

We moved it to scandal watch along with a few others. We probably should have done this earlier, our visitor count shot up shortly after moving it now that it isn't buried in general politics.

[ABX]

@kevindavis I've never bought into that "Deep State" crap.

Too Alex Jones-ish and tinfoil hat for me.

Do a little search on Deep State in Bing where you can adjust the dates to only show hits before the current cycle. It is very interesting. Before this cycle, it was a term generally relegated to conspiracy theorists, especially the JFK bunch. Also many references to Venezuela. It seems this new term has been re-purposed lately.

[geronl]

Do a little search on Deep State in Bing where you can adjust the dates to only show hits before the current cycle. It is very interesting. Before this cycle, it was a term generally relegated to conspiracy theorists, especially the JFK bunch. Also many references to Venezuela. It seems this new term has been re-purposed lately.

There is no deep state in Venezuela now, it's shallow and floating on the blood of its victims

[txradioguy]

Too Alex Jones-ish and tinfoil hat for me.






Three of you in a row.   No wonder I don't take any of you seriously,   you simply have no conception of what is actually going on in this nation.   


Yes,  there is a *Deep State*,   and yes they do work to further their own self interests.   They are the career Bureaucrats in Washington,   and growing the government and accumulating more power is what they regard as being in their best interest. 

The Federal Government employees are something like 80% Democrat.   If you think they don't want to use the powers of their office to further their politics,  you are naive. 


People like Erick Holder and Lois Learner are not isolated rarities,  they are the norm in that environment. 


They *are*  the Deep State.

You need to buy stock in Reynolds Aluminum.

[Cripplecreek]

You need to buy stock in Reynolds Aluminum.

Its kinda funny how these clowns flap their gums about the "deep state" yet dutifully avoid acknowledging the fact that someone like Jamie Gorelick works for Kushner/Trump.

[txradioguy]

Its kinda funny how these clowns flap their gums about the "deep state" yet dutifully avoid acknowledging the fact that someone like Jamie Gorelick works for Kushner/Trump.

[Oceander]

You need to buy stock in Reynolds Aluminum.

Not insofar as he's correct about the tendency of bureaucracy to perpetuate itself and to conflate its own ends with the public good.