Trump lawyer says president knew Flynn had given FBI the same account he gave to vice president

[Panho]

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Source: Washington Post

President Trump’s personal lawyer said on Sunday that the president knew in late January that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had probably given FBI agents the same inaccurate account he provided to Vice President Pence about a call with the Russian ambassador.

Trump lawyer John Dowd said the information was passed to Trump by White House counsel Donald McGahn, who had been warned about Flynn’s statement to the vice president by a senior Justice Department official. The vice president said publicly at the time that Flynn had told him he had not discussed sanctions with the Russian diplomat — a statement disproved by a U.S. intelligence intercept of a phone call between Flynn and then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Trump was aware of the issue a couple of weeks before a conversation with then-FBI Director James B. Comey in which Comey said the president asked him if he could be lenient while investigating Flynn, whom Trump had just fired for misleading Pence about the nature of his conversations with the Russian.

According to notes kept by Comey, Trump asked if he could see “his way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” Trump fired Comey in May.

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. Pretzel-twisted talking point.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

4. Yes...

... but the word that came to my mind was, "horse excrement".

[DeminPennswoods]

2. Trump's lawyer admints his client

knew about a crime (lying to the FBI) after being told by the WH counsel and did nothing about it. Hoo boy, they are all throwing each other under the bus. It must be true: no honor among thieves.

[marble falls]

5. That struck me. Do dumb clents hire dumb lawyers? Are they building some sort of mental deficiency..

defense?

[lastlib]

6. A lawyer with a law degree from tRump University?

the guy should be disbarred for incompetence if he wrote the tweet about Pres. firing of Flynn.

[Xipe Totec]

3. How can you KNOW something PROBABLY happened?

It either happened, or it didn't, and you either know it as a certainty, or you don't.

Either you know that something happened, or you speculate that something may have happened.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Yes Fudging

Blurring the facts so no one can ever get at them. Being on both sides creates a reasonable doubt, and is politically popular to both sides.

Insanity and confusion are their greatest assets in court or in public opinion. That is how they are hoping to manage this.

[Merlot]

12. Exactly, which is why I hope Mueller is going after the money laundering

issues around the russians and trumpft Money laundering is also easier for the average person to understand.

[Botany]

7. So a lawyer just admitted that his client broke the law?

n/t

[kentuck]

9. Lying is OK if no one can prove you wrong.

Lying is natural to this bunch of jerks.

[riversedge]

10. Trump twisted comments within twisted comments.... I have to

admit--the WH creating confusion is working on me (sometimes).

Link added as it is not in the OP:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lawyer-says-president-knew-flynn-had-given-fbi-the-same-account-he-gave-to-vice-president/2017/12/03/5c59a620-d849-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html?utm_term=.34961263ee38


Trump lawyer says president knew Flynn had given FBI the same account he gave to vice president
https://www.facebook.com/ellennakashimapost/

........Dowd confirmed Sunday that he had drafted the tweet for Trump and acknowledged that it was sloppily worded. He said it was inaccurate to say the president was told that Flynn had lied to the FBI. Dowd said Sunday that Trump knew only what acting attorney general Sally Yates had told the White House counsel: that Flynn’s accounts to the agents interviewing him were the same as those Flynn gave Pence, and “that the [Justice] Department was not accusing him of lying.”

People familiar with Yates’ account say she never discussed any part of the FBI investigation with the White House.

Dowd played down the significance of Trump’s tweet, saying he did not intend to make news and declared, “I’m out of the tweeting business.”



[Graphic: Here’s what we know so far about Team Trump’s ties to Russian interests]

But several legal experts said the tweet, and some of Dowd’s comments about what the president may have known, could increase the president’s legal exposure............................

[Maeve]

11. Still violating the first law of holes eom

[eringer]

13. No Doubt that Comey was Wearing a Wire Anticipating the Outcome of the Meeting

"According to notes kept by Comey, Trump asked if he could see “his way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” Trump fired Comey in May."
More than just mental notes -- more like jailbird song notes recorded on a low bidder gov't issued wire -- and Trump knows it.

[malthaussen]

14. "given... the same inaccurate account"

Just a bit of pique here: I am getting so sick of weasel words. Can we please start calling lies "lies" again, WaPo?

Although, frankly, I doubt Flynn lied to anyone... on the transition team.

-- Mal

[BlueIdaho]

15. You cant unring a bell John...

Dowd should be disbarred...

[OilemFirchen]

16. Dowd is a trip.

Bad enough that he's unable to keep his client from yammering on about an ongoing investigation, but Dowd is arguably worse - because he knows better. Or maybe not?

[bluestarone]

17. hell we can just

sit back and let his lawyer do the work for us LMAO

[DonViejo]

18. Locking....

Hosts alerted you to the missing link for the article at 7:40 a.m., you haven't provided it.