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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 09:07 AM Sep 2017

Legal defense fund set up for Michael Flynn

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 09/18/2017 08:32 AM EDT

The family of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has set up a legal defense fund for him, soliciting donations to ease the “tremendous financial burden” from the ongoing investigations into his actions and the 2016 presidential campaign.

“The enormous expense of attorneys' fees and other related expenses far exceed their ability to pay,” Flynn’s brother and sister said in a statement emailed to reporters early Monday. “To help ensure that he can defend himself, we have set up a legal defense fund, and we are asking Mike's supporters, veterans, and all people of goodwill to contribute whatever amount they can to this fund.”

The fund will not accept donations from foreign governments, nor will it accept money from the Trump campaign or the Trump Organization.

Flynn, a retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was among President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters during the campaign and was named national security adviser ahead of last January’s inauguration. But Flynn became increasingly wrapped up in the multiple ongoing investigations into Russian interference in last year’s election and ultimately resigned just weeks after Trump’s inauguration amid media reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the nature of conversations he had had with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/18/michael-flynn-legal-defense-fund-242832

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Legal defense fund set up for Michael Flynn (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
"asking Mike's supporters, veterans, and all people of goodwill " SharonClark Sep 2017 #1
'The fund will not accept donations from foreign governments' TubbersUK Sep 2017 #2
Not openly!! Scarsdale Sep 2017 #8
When you sleep with the dogs... KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #3
I would donate to a psych evaluation fund. nt DURHAM D Sep 2017 #4
This guy was screaming "Lock her up" at the Trump rallies last year FakeNoose Sep 2017 #5
I won't be donating. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2017 #6
Just as the pressure heats up on his son janterry Sep 2017 #7
Ask Erdogan and maybe he can send his security guys over to beat up some fake news reporters pecosbob Sep 2017 #9

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
1. "asking Mike's supporters, veterans, and all people of goodwill "
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 09:12 AM
Sep 2017

If they have any integrity, people in the last 2 groups should run the other way.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
8. Not openly!!
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 02:08 PM
Sep 2017

How much does he get as a pension? Did he spend all the money he got from the Ukraine and other nations as a lobbyist?Let him ask his buddies, Pence and Bannon for money.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
3. When you sleep with the dogs...
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 09:26 AM
Sep 2017

....you gonna get fleas real bad. Expect a big vet bill.

What's this shit about people of good will??

FakeNoose

(32,579 posts)
5. This guy was screaming "Lock her up" at the Trump rallies last year
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 09:37 AM
Sep 2017

I'd never donate to Flynn's defense fund, and I'd find it hard to believe that any other DUers would either.

"LOCK HIM UP!"

greatauntoftriplets

(175,729 posts)
6. I won't be donating.
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 09:49 AM
Sep 2017

I'll be happy to watch everyone in this maladministration suffer financially for enabling this monster. Anyway, they have loads more money than I do.

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
7. Just as the pressure heats up on his son
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 12:48 PM
Sep 2017

(purportedly to put pressure back on Mike Flynn)
someone creates a legal defense fund.

I'm sure it would have happened anyway...............but, huh. Someone is trying to take the pressure off of him

pecosbob

(7,533 posts)
9. Ask Erdogan and maybe he can send his security guys over to beat up some fake news reporters
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 03:24 PM
Sep 2017

or maybe the FSB has some cash stashed away in a slush fund. Perhaps once he's jailed his family can get him exchanged for Edward Snowden, and he can live out his golden years in Mother Russia.

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