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Botany

(77,586 posts)
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:24 AM Feb 2022

Never forget that Mike Flynn helped to sell out Ukraine to Russia in 2014 and then President ...

Last edited Tue Feb 22, 2022, 06:26 PM - Edit history (1)

... President Obama fired him from the Defense Intelligence Agency because he did not give the
President warning about Russia's invasion of the Crimea. There are reports that after President
Obama fired him he then went and spent time in Russia.

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Never forget that Mike Flynn helped to sell out Ukraine to Russia in 2014 and then President ... (Original Post) Botany Feb 2022 OP
Kicking for visability SheltieLover Feb 2022 #1
And don't forget that Paul Manafort worked for a pro Putin President of the Ukraine and that Botany Feb 2022 #6
And they are both free. SheltieLover Feb 2022 #9
And they guy on the far left ... Mike Pence ... was picked by Manafort (AKA Putin) to be V.P. Botany Feb 2022 #12
Handpicked and preapproved by the Kremlin dalton99a Feb 2022 #14
He sure was! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #54
Flynn's brother was working from the Pentagon on 1/6/21 to stop and or slow down Botany Feb 2022 #56
Yup! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #57
He needs to spend the rest of his life in GITMO! lastlib Feb 2022 #53
I couldn't agree more! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #55
There aren't DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #58
I agree! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #59
K&R, uponit7771 Feb 2022 #2
And Obama Warned Trump dalton99a Feb 2022 #3
Great find! I had not seen this photo before. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #27
Was taken at the same dinner as the more famous one in Botany's #7 KS Toronado Feb 2022 #31
and he shared a table with Jill Stein and Putin JohnSJ Feb 2022 #4
Yup! Botany Feb 2022 #7
Putin's honored guest dalton99a Feb 2022 #11
Yup Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #36
Seated at Putin's right hand. colorado_ufo Feb 2022 #51
Translator earpiece. nt LittleGirl Feb 2022 #74
Thank you. colorado_ufo Feb 2022 #76
Yup! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #10
EFFING Flynn............. secondwind Feb 2022 #5
Why has this traitor not been charged and arrested Beachnutt Feb 2022 #8
Because TFG pardoned him. Remember? Ocelot II Feb 2022 #13
"Ukraine" not "the Ukraine" lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #15
Thanx Botany Feb 2022 #16
Indeed! Duppers Feb 2022 #29
Kind of like when the Rs say the "Democrat party" which is bullshit and a pejorative OMGWTF Feb 2022 #60
Overheard last week at Walmart. "General Flynn is the only real patriot we've got!" Midnight Writer Feb 2022 #17
Up is down in Trumpworld. dalton99a Feb 2022 #18
The judge tells Flynn that "arguably you sold your country out." Botany Feb 2022 #19
Wasn't that Jared who was working on the back channel? leftieNanner Feb 2022 #21
You might be right ... It all does kind of run together at some point. Botany Feb 2022 #26
Kushner, Erik Prince, Seychelles, back channel for Trump & Putin liberalla Feb 2022 #48
The Seychelles* are really in the middle of no place .... 900 miles of east central Africa in .... Botany Feb 2022 #52
It was the crime of the century. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #63
And Manafort* gift wrapped the rat fucking of America by Russia by giving Vlad's agent .... Botany Feb 2022 #65
I wonder how much these guys made to sell out their country? Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #66
Flynn is not the only American who sold out their country. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #46
How thick was the Russian accent? Zambero Feb 2022 #20
No worse than Tucker Carlson's. Midnight Writer Feb 2022 #34
Flynn has his own sub-cult, a blog/podcast something going full bore these days. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #28
A patriot for Russia perhaps PatSeg Feb 2022 #38
Flynn is working on the Coup 2.0 right now. L. Coyote Feb 2022 #22
"Operational security." dchill Feb 2022 #39
KNR niyad Feb 2022 #23
Obama bad. Period. Democrats too, is all they know. czarjak Feb 2022 #24
When Obama Rebl2 Feb 2022 #25
See post #3 President Obama warned TFG about Flynn and so did acting A.G. Sally Yates Botany Feb 2022 #30
And yet he continues to receive his General's pension CanonRay Feb 2022 #32
The military should strip that traitor of his General title at least IronLionZion Feb 2022 #33
This news about Flynn is old news, the news I want to hear is that the Military recalled the SOB Escurumbele Feb 2022 #35
✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ msfiddlestix Feb 2022 #37
Picked sides, he did. calimary Feb 2022 #40
When DU was hacked Election Day 2016 StClone Feb 2022 #41
I hope we get a reveal on just how deep the corruption was in Trump's admin. ificandream Feb 2022 #42
Right, how many GOP leaders are Russian assets? Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #47
K & R! liberalla Feb 2022 #43
"That he didn't give warning of the invasion." Botany Feb 2022 #44
He receives a US military pension while he is working for Russia. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #45
As we speak dalton99a Feb 2022 #50
He has been on the taxpayer dole since college. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #62
Kick BadgerMom Feb 2022 #49
How much do you make for selling out your country? Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #61
Broken record NQAS Feb 2022 #64
It is sealed because he was juvenile but Flynn did some time for some crime. Botany Feb 2022 #67
The scariest thing Mr.Bill Feb 2022 #68
Please change "the Ukraine" to just Ukraine blue-wave Feb 2022 #69
Foreign Policy for Sale OR Privatization of Foreign Policy for Private Interests bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #70
Don't forget Paul Manafort and Tad Devine were business partners undermining the govt. of Ukraine. George II Feb 2022 #71
And that Paul Manafort worked for free for the Trump campaign Botany Feb 2022 #72
K&R MustLoveBeagles Feb 2022 #73
Mike Flynn is a traitor and gets a government pension! Emile Feb 2022 #75

Botany

(77,586 posts)
6. And don't forget that Paul Manafort worked for a pro Putin President of the Ukraine and that
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:28 AM
Feb 2022

Trump got money and support from 2 Ukrainian mobsters.

Botany

(77,586 posts)
12. And they guy on the far left ... Mike Pence ... was picked by Manafort (AKA Putin) to be V.P.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:33 AM
Feb 2022

Botany

(77,586 posts)
56. Flynn's brother was working from the Pentagon on 1/6/21 to stop and or slow down
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 02:09 PM
Feb 2022

any national guard response to Trump's thugs. I think Mike Flynn was around Trump that
day too.

lastlib

(28,420 posts)
53. He needs to spend the rest of his life in GITMO!
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 01:43 PM
Feb 2022

at the very least in the Colorado SuperMax prison.

SheltieLover

(81,288 posts)
55. I couldn't agree more!
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 02:04 PM
Feb 2022

They need to be in steel cages while they are being investigated & tried. Definite danger to our society.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
58. There aren't
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 02:39 PM
Feb 2022

enough cells in Gitmo and Super Max to hold all the Republicans that deserve it.

Silly me, I am old enough to remember when the US Gov't sent that couple to the gas chamber for what is now seemingly, practically nothing compared to what these Republicans have done.........

And 70 million voters look the other way................

dalton99a

(94,767 posts)
3. And Obama Warned Trump
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:26 AM
Feb 2022
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-warned-trump-against-hiring-mike-flynn-say-officials-n756316

Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials
The warning came less than 48 hours after the November election when the two sat down for a conversation in the Oval Office.
May 8, 2017, 10:10 AM CDT / Updated May 8, 2017, 10:33 AM CDT
By Kristen Welker, Dafna Linzer and Ken Dilanian

Former President Obama warned President Donald Trump against hiring Mike Flynn as his national security adviser, three former Obama administration officials tell NBC News.

The warning, which has not been previously reported, came less than 48 hours after the November election when the two sat down for a 90-minute conversation in the Oval Office.

colorado_ufo

(6,259 posts)
51. Seated at Putin's right hand.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 01:34 PM
Feb 2022

I have had multiple occasions to dine with consuls general and ambassadors, and seating is a very big deal. There are people who have special training in how to seat dignitaries from different positions and countries.

I wonder whom Flynn is talking with on that earpiece.

OMGWTF

(5,175 posts)
60. Kind of like when the Rs say the "Democrat party" which is bullshit and a pejorative
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 02:55 PM
Feb 2022

because there is no such thing as the Democrat party; it's the Democratic party.

Have I told you lately how much I fking loathe the Rs?

Midnight Writer

(25,567 posts)
17. Overheard last week at Walmart. "General Flynn is the only real patriot we've got!"
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:36 AM
Feb 2022

Guy was going on a rant. I walked on by without hearing much more, but he had a little (unmasked) crowd there.

Botany

(77,586 posts)
19. The judge tells Flynn that "arguably you sold your country out."
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:44 AM
Feb 2022
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/18/judge-tells-michael-flynn-you-sold-your-country-out-at-hearing.html

BTW The Trump White House and the V.P. were not taken by surprise by Flynn's illegal calls to Russian
Ambassador Kislyak they damn well knew what he was doing and Don Jr. was working on trying to get a
"secret back channel" communication link to Russia/Putin and the White House @ the same time too.

leftieNanner

(16,162 posts)
21. Wasn't that Jared who was working on the back channel?
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:50 AM
Feb 2022

I don't know. It's all such mushed up garbage at this point, it's difficult to keep track.

Botany

(77,586 posts)
26. You might be right ... It all does kind of run together at some point.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 11:07 AM
Feb 2022

Putin's installing TFG into the White House and up to now was part of the biggest criminal
operation in America's history (if you don't count slavery and the genocide of the new world
native peoples).

liberalla

(11,154 posts)
48. Kushner, Erik Prince, Seychelles, back channel for Trump & Putin
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 01:11 PM
Feb 2022

(the key figures I recall... but I'm sure there's more. So many tentacles)

Botany

(77,586 posts)
52. The Seychelles* are really in the middle of no place .... 900 miles of east central Africa in ....
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 01:38 PM
Feb 2022

... the Indian Ocean. And for Erik Prince to just run into a think it was Russian agent, a Saudi
money guy, and a middle eastern middle man in some restaurant there isn't believable.

We really do need to root out all these scummy players from our government and what not.


* My neighbors had some family there and they said it was almost 2 full days of flying to
get there from Ohio.

Irish_Dem

(81,896 posts)
63. It was the crime of the century.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 03:39 PM
Feb 2022

Like taking candy from a baby.

Must have surprised even Putin himself to see it go so perfectly.

Botany

(77,586 posts)
65. And Manafort* gift wrapped the rat fucking of America by Russia by giving Vlad's agent ....
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:01 PM
Feb 2022

.... Konstantin Kilimnik the data analytics on Americans in targeted areas so the Russian agents
and Cambridge Analytica/Facebook knew exactly where and by how much they had to manipulate
the outcome of the voting in order to use the electoral college to install TFG into the White House.


* along with people like Flynn too.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

Irish_Dem

(81,896 posts)
66. I wonder how much these guys made to sell out their country?
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:04 PM
Feb 2022

Monthly stipend?
Flat fee?
Bonus when certain markers achieved?

Rebl2

(17,847 posts)
25. When Obama
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:58 AM
Feb 2022

fired him he left and spent time in Russia? The US should not have let him back in or he should have been investigated. Was he giving away military secrets to putin?

Botany

(77,586 posts)
30. See post #3 President Obama warned TFG about Flynn and so did acting A.G. Sally Yates
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 11:15 AM
Feb 2022

n/t

IronLionZion

(51,439 posts)
33. The military should strip that traitor of his General title at least
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 11:27 AM
Feb 2022

I'd like to see him court martialed and locked up in Leavenworth for life.

Escurumbele

(4,102 posts)
35. This news about Flynn is old news, the news I want to hear is that the Military recalled the SOB
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 11:31 AM
Feb 2022

and that they are preparing to court martial the bastard...why is that not happening?

Totalitarian regimes triumph because the military becomes complicit, that is my biggest worry with all that is happening.

StClone

(11,869 posts)
41. When DU was hacked Election Day 2016
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 12:06 PM
Feb 2022

It was likely Russian hackers in my opinion. If so we personally feel DUers was betrayed by Flynn and his dupes.

ificandream

(11,846 posts)
42. I hope we get a reveal on just how deep the corruption was in Trump's admin.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 12:33 PM
Feb 2022

I don't think we've come close yet.

liberalla

(11,154 posts)
43. K & R!
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 12:45 PM
Feb 2022

I didn't know the exact reason Pres. Obama fired him. I knew it Russia related, but not specifically that he didn't give warning of the invasion. Wow.

Botany

(77,586 posts)
44. "That he didn't give warning of the invasion."
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 12:58 PM
Feb 2022

I have family that works for the DoD and we have satellites all over and there was no way
that Russia could have invaded Ukraine w/out our military and intell not knowing about it
before hand. I think that Flynn was already a working asset for Putin/Russia before 2014.

BadgerMom

(3,425 posts)
49. Kick
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 01:27 PM
Feb 2022

And let’s not forget that Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, who led the delegation and is not running for re-election to his seat this year, along with Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana, Steve Daines of Montana, North Dakota’s John Hoeven, Jerry Moran of Kansas, South Dakota’s John Thune, and Rep. Kay Granger of the 12th District of Texas all traveled to Russia on the Fourth of July, 2018. All but Shelby and Daines (who was re-elected in 2020) are running this year. I realize that it may be tilting at windmills to unseat some of these traitors, but not all of them. Johnson is at least somewhat vulnerable. In light of the story yesterday about the candidate who asked for help from Russian intelligence in his losing 2016 House bid, this trip smells even more.

Irish_Dem

(81,896 posts)
61. How much do you make for selling out your country?
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 03:36 PM
Feb 2022

Do you get a monthly stipend from Putin?

Or a flat fee?

And perhaps a nice bonus when certain targets are met.

NQAS

(10,749 posts)
64. Broken record
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 03:57 PM
Feb 2022

I've asked this before. And we'll probably never know the answer.

Is any part of the US Government doing a counterintelligence/treason investigation of Flynn? Any part, meaning DIA, NSA, CIA, FBI. All would be involved.

He was the head of DIA and his actions for the better part of a decade suggest support for Russia, a megalomania personality (in my non-doctor opinion), and a weird tendency to ignore reality. This doesn't come out of nowhere. Was he a Russian agent at any point? Or, back further - was he a Soviet agent? Per Wikipedia, he was in the Army from 1981. He might have come to the attention of the Soviet Union early on. And from the 1990s onward he was a rising star, just the kind of military officer that would come to the attention of an intelligence service.

Asking for some 80 million friends.

Botany

(77,586 posts)
67. It is sealed because he was juvenile but Flynn did some time for some crime.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:25 PM
Feb 2022

I have no doubt that Putin had his hooks into Flynn since @ 2013 when he visited Russia.

Mr.Bill

(24,906 posts)
68. The scariest thing
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:56 PM
Feb 2022

is for those of us who would like to think the military command will always support the President and follow his orders, I have three words for you:

General Michael Flynn

Who else at the Pentagon does Putin command?

blue-wave

(5,389 posts)
69. Please change "the Ukraine" to just Ukraine
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 06:15 PM
Feb 2022

Saying the Ukraine is an insult to Ukrainians and has been used by Ukraine's oppressors for centuries to claim ownership of Ukraine.

bucolic_frolic

(55,463 posts)
70. Foreign Policy for Sale OR Privatization of Foreign Policy for Private Interests
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 08:04 PM
Feb 2022

Sure looking like a sell out

George II

(67,782 posts)
71. Don't forget Paul Manafort and Tad Devine were business partners undermining the govt. of Ukraine.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 09:39 PM
Feb 2022
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