National Enquirer brands Flynn a "Russian spy" -- Trump just threw Flynn under the bus. Why?

[highplainsdem]

The subject line above is a headline from John Aravosis at AmericaBlog.

http://americablog.com/2017/03/national-enquirer-brands-flynn-russian-spy-trump-just-threw-flynn-bus.html

No one should believe anything the National Enquirer writes. The fact that the National Enquirer says Flynn is a Russian spy likely means Flynn isn’t a Russian spy. But this story matters because the man who runs the National Enquirer, David Pecker, is a huge longtime friend of Trump. The Enquirer only runs stories that help Trump. And there is no way the Enquirer would run this story unless Team Trump thought this story helped Trump.

So the real question is why the White House thinks it’s to Trump’s advantage to suddenly throw Flynn under the bus. More on that after the images below.

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Now, why would Team Trump do this to Flynn? Because they fear Flynn has become a liability, perhaps by turning state’s evidence against them or because they’ve gotten wind of such damaging information about Flynn that they feel the need to distance themselves, as they did with Manafort last week. This is a real turn of events, as up until a few days ago the White House was defending Flynn big time. They threw Manafort under the bus last week, but not Flynn. So something changed to make them turn on Flynn.

Now, if you really want to go all 007, another reason to sacrifice Flynn might be to save someone else. If there’s a bigger fish who’s been compromised by the Russians, throw the world the smaller fish who may not have even been involved, and hope that their appetite is satiated.

I found this via Google after seeing John Schindler retweet a Rick Wilson tweet with a photo of the Enquirer cover:

Link to Wilson tweet:

Link to tweet

Enquirer page about that issue:

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/donald-trump-russian-influence-washington/

The one man who can expose Russia’s vast infiltration of America has been hiding in plain sight — and now the KGB spymaster is telling all in the new issue of The National ENQUIRER, on newsstands now! The insider's shocking revelations about Kremlin spies on U.S. soil are backed by top White House officials who claim ousted Trump advisor Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn “was, in essence, the Russian spy in Trump’s midst!”

Tweets from John Schindler commenting on the Enquirer story:

Link to tweet

Trump's about to learn his just-throw-my-old-pal-under-the-bus routine doesn't work on folks facing indictments + decades in Federal prison.

Link to tweet

Looks like Trump's terrified that #MoscowMike's cooperating with DoJ. I always suspected Flynn would flip first.

The second tweet there links to the AmericaBlog piece I'd found earlier via Google. Just refreshed that Google search

https://www.google.com/search?q=google&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=national+enquirer+trump+flynn+white+house+spy&*

and it looks like AmericaBlog is still the only site commenting on the Enquirer article.

[joeybee12]

1. Title tells you all you need to know. "Trump catches.."

Makes the orange turd out to be a hero, as if he'sactively trying to clean things up, when the non brain dead know he's activelly covering it up.

[Orsino]

2. Why? Because throwing people under the bus is what Trump does.

Trump fails, Trump blames others.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Because Flynn knows everything and could be granted immunity

[Idoru]

8. This

If Flynn starts to sing, they are all going to jail.

[highplainsdem]

4. People are starting to tweet this story to Michael Flynn Jr. No reaction from him yet.

https://twitter.com/mflynnJR

The idiot's still tweeting about PizzaGate.

[CanonRay]

5. The beginning of a McCarthy-like purge?

[jmg257]

6. Ah so was Flynn surveillance the source of Nunes' reports?

Although that would be related to Russia, so doesn't meet his narrative.

[Vinca]

7. More deflection. The noose is tightening.

[Vilis Veritas]

9. This is right out of the Putin handbook.

Create a false narrative to the real story and throw some people under the bus as scapegoats with the Leader being touted as the hero in the fake news.

Trump will come up smelling a little less turd-like and his followers will stand and salute.

Resist.