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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Fri May 19, 2017, 10:25 PM May 2017

***BREAKING**Russian officials bragged they could use Flynn to influence Trump...



http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-russia-influence/

Russian officials bragged in conversations during the presidential campaign that they had cultivated a strong relationship with former Trump adviser retired Gen. Michael Flynn and believed they could use him to influence Donald Trump and his team, sources told CNN.


"This was a five-alarm fire from early on," one former Obama administration official said, "the way the Russians were talking about him.
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***BREAKING**Russian officials bragged they could use Flynn to influence Trump... (Original Post) HipChick May 2017 OP
I've Always Felt The Flynn Was Trump's Minder....... global1 May 2017 #1
He is still influencing Trump! imanamerican63 May 2017 #2
kick & rec. nt Ilsa May 2017 #3
The conversations picked up by US intelligence officials indicated the Russians regarded Flynn L. Coyote May 2017 #4
This is really weird. Dude needs a neurology exam: L. Coyote May 2017 #5
Shakespeare couldn't top this Flynn business eleny May 2017 #6

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
4. The conversations picked up by US intelligence officials indicated the Russians regarded Flynn
Fri May 19, 2017, 11:18 PM
May 2017

as an ally, sources said. That relationship developed throughout 2016, months before Flynn was caught on an intercepted call in December speaking with Russia's ambassador in Washington, Sergey Kislyak. That call, and Flynn's changing story about it, ultimately led to his firing as Trump's first national security adviser. ................

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
5. This is really weird. Dude needs a neurology exam:
Fri May 19, 2017, 11:26 PM
May 2017
Two days after firing Michael Flynn as his national security adviser in February, President Donald Trump told several aides and friends he should have kept him instead.

Trump, several people close to him say, sometimes appears to question decisions even after they’ve been made. He told New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that he could still be labor secretary even after he’d publicly named Alexander Acosta to the role. He privately told former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani he could potentially still name him as attorney general after he’d offered Jeff Sessions to the job.......


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/trump-michael-flynn-firing-mistake-aides-238618
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