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22. I wonder who the "jest" official is?

Mon May 8, 2017, 01:28 PM

May 2017

From the text of the article, NBC talked to someone in the Trump administration, who confirmed that Obama didn't trust Flynn. Then it says "another official" claimed the remark seemed to be in jest. Who is this second official? The implication is that it's someone else in the Trump administration, though that isn't said specifically.

But let's assume it was a Trump official who made the "jest" comment, which I think is reasonable. Why would anyone put any trust in anything said by this cabal of self-serving amateurs who don't have the foggiest notion of what they're doing? Was the second official actually present in the meeting between Obama and Trump? I can't tell if the writing of this report is intentionally sloppy, trying to provide cover for Trump, or if it got rushed into print and nobody noticed two very ambiguous statements.

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