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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Fri May 17, 2019, 09:23 PM May 2019

Trump blames Obama for not warning him about Flynn

By Aaron Rupar
May 17, 2019, 4:30pm EDT

... On Friday, Trump tweeted his lament that nobody warned him about Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general who was dismissed from his job as director of national intelligence by then-President Barack Obama in 2014. After his dismissal, Flynn wasted little time cozying up to the Kremlin, and then spent 2016 as one of Trump’s key campaign surrogates ...

During the presidential transition period, he had phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in which he advised Kislyak not to respond to new sanctions the Obama administration placed on Russia for interfering (on Trump’s behalf) in the just-completed presidential election. Not only did Flynn undercut Obama’s foreign policy, but he then lied about it, telling FBI investigators during an interview conducted days after Trump’s inauguration that he and Kislyak did not in fact discuss sanctions.

Flynn’s lies to the FBI prompted officials to warn Trump once again about Flynn. On January 26, 2017, then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates personally informed the White House that Flynn lied to the FBI about his calls with Kislyak, and therefore was at risk of being blackmailed by Russia. But instead of immediately taking action against Flynn, the Trump administration fired Yates three days later ...

https://www.vox.com/2019/5/17/18629545/trump-michael-flynn-tweet-obama-warned-him

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Trump blames Obama for not warning him about Flynn (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2019 OP
Trump lives in upside-down world. Ilsa May 2019 #1
tRump bdamomma May 2019 #2
Obama warned him, so did Sally Yates RainCaster May 2019 #3
Don't matter if Barack warned him or not....tRump said Barack didn't warn him.... a kennedy May 2019 #4
I think the WH has a rubber stamp which says, "Trump blames Obama" LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2019 #5

a kennedy

(29,647 posts)
4. Don't matter if Barack warned him or not....tRump said Barack didn't warn him....
Fri May 17, 2019, 10:05 PM
May 2019

so it’s the truth, he didn’t warn him, end of story.

5. I think the WH has a rubber stamp which says, "Trump blames Obama"
Fri May 17, 2019, 10:28 PM
May 2019

I'm waiting for Fat Donnie to start blaming our last real president for the failure of the Trump Casinos.

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