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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYet More Shoes Drop in the Flynn Scandal
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/05/flynnOur big announcement on the Trump-Russia scandal.
Yet More Shoes Drop in the Flynn Scandal
Kevin Drum
May 18, 2017 12:10 AM
Another hour, another Trump scandal. I can't keep up. Here's the latest timeline on Mike Flynn. The three items in italics are new:
August 9: Flynn is hired by the Turkey-U.S. Business Council for $600,000 to help repair Turkey's image in the US. However, Flynn chooses not to register as a foreign agent on the pretext that he's just lobbying for a business group that has nothing to do with the Turkish government.
November 18: Trump names Flynn as his National Security Advisor.
November 30: The Justice Department opens an investigation into Flynn's lobbying activities. Flynn keeps this news to himself for over a month.
December: Flynn has repeated contacts with various Russian officials but doesn't tell anybody.
January 4: Flynn tells the incoming White House counsel that he is under investigation. Nothing happens.
January 10: In a meeting with Susan Rice, Flynn puts the kibosh on an Obama plan to use Kurdish help to take the ISIS-occupied town of Raqqasomething that his erstwhile client Turkey is opposed to. McClatchy reports: "Members of Congress, musing about the tangle of legal difficulties Flynn faces, cite that exchange with Rice as perhaps the most serious: acting on behalf of a foreign nation from which he had received considerable cash when making a military decision. Some members of Congress, in private conversations, have even used the word treason to describe Flynns intervention, though experts doubt that his actions qualify." Still nothing happens.
January 26: Acting attorney general Sally Yates warns the White House that Flynn has lied about his contacts with Russian officials, which may have compromised him. Still nothing happens.
February 9: The Washington Post reveals Flynn's lies about his Russian contacts. Everything is now public.
February 13: Finally something happens. Trump fires Flynn.
February 14: Trump meets with FBI director James Comey and asks him to kill the investigation into Flynn.
March-April: Comey continues the investigation.
May 9: Trump fires Comey.
November 18: Trump names Flynn as his National Security Advisor.
November 30: The Justice Department opens an investigation into Flynn's lobbying activities. Flynn keeps this news to himself for over a month.
December: Flynn has repeated contacts with various Russian officials but doesn't tell anybody.
January 4: Flynn tells the incoming White House counsel that he is under investigation. Nothing happens.
January 10: In a meeting with Susan Rice, Flynn puts the kibosh on an Obama plan to use Kurdish help to take the ISIS-occupied town of Raqqasomething that his erstwhile client Turkey is opposed to. McClatchy reports: "Members of Congress, musing about the tangle of legal difficulties Flynn faces, cite that exchange with Rice as perhaps the most serious: acting on behalf of a foreign nation from which he had received considerable cash when making a military decision. Some members of Congress, in private conversations, have even used the word treason to describe Flynns intervention, though experts doubt that his actions qualify." Still nothing happens.
January 26: Acting attorney general Sally Yates warns the White House that Flynn has lied about his contacts with Russian officials, which may have compromised him. Still nothing happens.
February 9: The Washington Post reveals Flynn's lies about his Russian contacts. Everything is now public.
February 13: Finally something happens. Trump fires Flynn.
February 14: Trump meets with FBI director James Comey and asks him to kill the investigation into Flynn.
March-April: Comey continues the investigation.
May 9: Trump fires Comey.
The new news here is that Trump knew about the FBI investigation far earlier than anyone has reported before. By the time Sally Yates alerted the White House to Flynn's lying, they had already been warned off Flynn by President Obama and they'd known about the FBI investigation for three weeks. Nonetheless, they did nothing until it all became public.
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Yet More Shoes Drop in the Flynn Scandal (Original Post)
babylonsister
May 2017
OP
It won't make a difference if hiring Flynn wasn't illegal and the GOP doesn't care.
Raven123
May 2017
#9
this is the 1st time he can't just buy somebody off. not pay ever is his plan.
pansypoo53219
May 2017
#10
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)1. Trump is still funning the Flynn show. More Obstruction crimes.
Phoenix61
(17,000 posts)2. "Stay strong" hmmm
As in keep your mouth shut and don't flip on me. He just keeps digging, doesn't he.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)3. As these shoes drop, someone should start flinging them.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)4. republicans waiting for russia to tell them what to do
disgusting
NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)5. Lock them ALL up!
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)7. Enrique Pena Nieto called,,,
...he said Mexico will be happy to pay for Trump's impeachment.
mgardener
(1,815 posts)8. Anybody else know this?
Tom DeLay, remember him? He had some Russia issues too and with Jack Abramoff.
Guess who his lawyer was.
Yes, Donald Trump's lawyer Don McGahn.
He was Tom DeLay's ethics lawyer.
I hope they are looking at him too.
Raven123
(4,813 posts)9. It won't make a difference if hiring Flynn wasn't illegal and the GOP doesn't care.
pansypoo53219
(20,969 posts)10. this is the 1st time he can't just buy somebody off. not pay ever is his plan.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)11. Must be a millipede to need so many shoes.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)12. I'm still waiting for an apology from all those media hacks
who tried to make the Clinton Foundation into the next Watergate and enabled this to happen