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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlynn just resigned!! AP confirms.
Per CNN.
Breaking banner on CNN. They're reading his resignation letter live now. He's gone.
http://www.cnn.com/
AP Politics? @AP_Politics
BREAKING: National security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned.
10:06 PM · Feb 13, 2017
https://mobile.twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/831353809020526596
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/feb/14/flynn-resigns-donald-trump-national-security-adviser-russia-links-live
Keith Kellog acting NSA at the moment. Petraeus to "come in tomorrow" reason unclear.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)He's out!
apcalc
(4,465 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)For the higher ups.
StarryNite
(9,459 posts)He took one for the team. So many, many more to go!
Warpy
(111,332 posts)Either the staff managed to convince him to be the sacrificial lamb/agent or he realizes if he stays, he'll sink the lot of them. Or he just wants out of the spotlight to do his thing in the dark corners.
Interesting.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)doc03
(35,363 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)At least if justice prevails.
doc03
(35,363 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)Which I also expect to be met with a wall of resistance by the GOP. Luckily the press isn't as sympathetic anymore. They really messed up alienating the press, IMO.
I know 'them' too. They have swallowed the "orange" Kool Aid.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)hay rick
(7,636 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)StarryNite
(9,459 posts)Love it!!!
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)Seeing as he actually did something that warrants being tossed in the pokey.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)What did Dump know and when did he know it?
herding cats
(19,567 posts)Something pushed this over the edge.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Starting to have a very Nixonian feel to it.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)I doubt this is the last resignation we're going to see here. Let's just hope it goes all the way to the top!
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)"Watch this, it'll be so quick and nobody will be the wiser!"
Hekate
(90,779 posts)Bye Felicia!
herding cats
(19,567 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)Wouldn't that, if true, help bring more light on this issue?
Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)There is no way Trump wasn't involved.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)Trump is just as deeply involved in Russia.
oasis
(49,401 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Quit your stalling. Time for you to resign, too!
herding cats
(19,567 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)Damn.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)I remember during Watergate being glued to my TV set watching the hearings. I was in my 20s but I had the nagging feeling that history was playing out in front of us. Pay attention. This has the same feel and hopefully the same outcome. Buh-bye, Trumpolini.
Hopefully, this will be the first domino to fall.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)struggle4progress
(118,332 posts)Freethinker65
(10,036 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)and a bunch more to go.
tavernier
(12,396 posts)Ya mon.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)They're going out for pizza.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)LeftInTX
(25,525 posts)But Flynn is a bitter person...who likes to talk...
herding cats
(19,567 posts)He may not go peacefully.
Freethinker65
(10,036 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)his lawyers will tell him to cut a deal and start singing.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)I'm not happy, but hope this doesn't go away.
Freethinker65
(10,036 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)tblue37
(65,483 posts)uponit7771
(90,359 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)We need to not let this drop off the radar.
procon
(15,805 posts)The crucial question, 'What did he know, and when did he know it?', is still unanswered.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)This helps invalidate trump and validates our suspicions.
jeanmarc
(1,685 posts)mvd
(65,180 posts)Pence also. I hope it snowballs until they resign. Then we will deal with Ryan being weakened by all of this.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)That's what they're saying on CNN right now.
This has shades of Watergate.
mvd
(65,180 posts)We all suspected things were rotten with this administration and Russia from the start. Things are moving even faster than I hoped.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)jeanmarc
(1,685 posts)Trump has gone to war with the spy/security agencies and they are returning fire in a bigly response.
The intelligence agencies have no reason to hold their fire now. It's war!
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)And will probably be rewarded handsomely by Trump's Russian pals.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)Which goes against his personality. Which is interesting.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Congress may be drawing up articles of impeachment before the midterms, at this rate.
I really hope a couple of patriots leak enough information to the press to push things along.
The Republic won't survive a year under these traitors. They have to go. All of them!
herding cats
(19,567 posts)But, we shall see.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)They are so craven that they won't fall on their own swords. They'll sell him out in order to protect their own seats.
That's what I'm counting on.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)Right now they're trying to jam their agenda down our throats, but next year that should shift to their own political careers.
True Dough
(17,314 posts)I am pleased that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn will be by my side as we work to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, navigate geopolitical challenges and keep Americans safe at home and abroad, Trump said in a statement. General Flynn is one of the countrys foremost experts on military and intelligence matters and he will be an invaluable asset to me and my administration.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/michael-flynn-national-security-adviser-231591
What a visionary!!!
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)Please?
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)progree
(10,912 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)In more ways than one.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)since already 200,000 people had to flee from Trump's infrastructure disaster.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)That's an issue near and dear to my heart that I've explore here in depth.
drray23
(7,637 posts)That should force him to spill the beans on who else knew. It is very likely the president and vice-president were in on it.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)but please, please let us not lose focus. We know damn well that this is only the first of many, many scandals that need to be dragged out into the light. We also do not want to give the enemy, and yes I do call them the enemy now a chance to throw up some distraction so that the news media will find some of very easy fix to focus on and allow Flynn to live some nice quiet existence in the United Arab Emirates. You know that is the goal of Trump, to get Flynn out of the way so that he can hide his shame and that the Congress will not want a Trump scandal to detract from things like cutting Social Security and Medicare.
We need to stay focused, we need to be relentless. We need to keep pursuing this as far as it will go, and if that means that we actually find out that folks like the Mitch McConnell's, Paul Ryan's, James Comeys and all hell yes if Mike pence and Donald Trump knew anything about what was going on, that they get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Allow me to also add without apology that if there is a nice red Russian wound in the Republican Party, that we be ruthless about exploiting it. They are already popping champagne over the Supreme Court, we need to do the maximum amount of damage to the Republicans possible, without mercy, without apology.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)No matter what we all try and read into this, it's a huge loss for Russia. Which is, under our current administration, a win for the US.
Now we need to be laser focused on who knew what, and when they knew it. We need unbiased independent investigations. Which will be a hard battle.
I believe there's real issues here, not partisan imagined ones, which justice demands be uncovered and exposed to salvage our democracy.