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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's 'trust' in Flynn must have 'eroded' rapidly last night
...according to Conway, Flynn was still fully engaged in the administration hours before Spicer says he 'asked' for his resignation, including participating in national security briefings.
Link to tweet
from Matthew Yglesiasz;
The resignation certainly seems to have been precipitated by a Monday evening Washington Post report saying that former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates had apprised White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn appeared to have mislead Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The story came out, it was a blockbuster, and shortly thereafter Flynn resigned. Just hours before the story dropped, Kellyanne Conway was assuring reporters that President Trump had full confidence in Flynn.
Then came the story. Then came Flynns resignation. The transition from confidence to resigned, in short, seems to have had something to do with the story.
read: http://www.vox.com/2017/2/14/14613308/why-was-michael-flynn-fired
tavernier
(12,446 posts)Better you than me.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,237 posts)And had him standing over his shoulder during the North Korean missile matter. We all saw the photos.
Just the base stupidity and the lying.
herding cats
(19,569 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:41 PM - Edit history (1)
Or, this was total lies and the situation required a quick exit before Pence and Trump were exposed.
My money is on the latter.
spanone
(136,012 posts)bigtree
(86,045 posts)...Spicer left so much out of his explanation that it invites further scrutiny, rather than dampens the appetite for it.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and the ONLY reason why they still aren't spinning for Flynn is because the WaPo story created so much heat...
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)dembotoz
(16,879 posts)Perhaps cabinet officials should rent their houses by the hour
Would appear the perv president could provide wisdom from his experience in Russia renting a room by the hour
spanone
(136,012 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)They were going to cover it up until that happened. Period.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)was de-encrypted? Like maybe at first it was just partially de-encrypted. Probably just to make sure Trump's name not in it?
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