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where Flynn said he was planning on kidnapping the Turkish dissident? Maybe that helped Comey see how crazy Flynn was.
Just wondering.
frogmarch
(12,156 posts)Woolsey said that after the meeting he was nervous about what might have been going on there, and he told a friend of his who knew Joe Biden, and that the friend called Biden and told him about it. The friend told Woolsey that Biden was furious about it and that for all the friend knew, Biden may have contacted the FBI and even requested surveillance on one or more of those in attendance.
EDIT: I either misspoke or misheard, since Biden wouldn't have called the FBI and requested surveillance. He'd have gone through the proper channels to do it.
leanforward
(1,076 posts)My pop corn is out.
Seriously, I remember reading about Woolsey and his departure from the dRumpf campaign. His name mentioned in what I read has not come up again. Likewise, Flynn's name went quiet, except for his retroactive registration as a Turkish spokespkeman. Then today several articles have come up.
For me, in the day to day reading of current events, memory of articles come back and click into place.
Woolsey may have triggered a hell of a lot more than we realized.
I am a loyal citizen, in opposition to pRezident dRumpf and any GOP lemming (nunes).
Follow the money.
Vinca
(50,285 posts)frogmarch
(12,156 posts)If that's what you mean, Woolsey said that at the onset of the campaign, Trump asked him if he could call on him for advice from time to time, and Woolsey had said yes. He said he was never on the payroll and didn't receive payment, and that months went by before Trump called him for advice about anything at all, and I think Woolsey said it was about something fairly minor. I seem to recall Woolsey saying he was getting tired of seeing and hearing his name being listed among the Trump advisers, so he resigned, if you can call it that. What freaked Woolsey out was when he learned that Flynn had registered him as a foreign agent too. I suppose that's when Woolsey hired a lawyer, maybe the one who was with him during the Anderson Cooper interview.
Woolsey stressed that his quitting as a Trump adviser was not connected to the meeting he attended with Flynn, that they were two separate things.
What I've written is strictly from memory and may contain a goof or two. I didn't take notes while I watched the interview.
Vinca
(50,285 posts)mob . . . er, Trump hangerson. It doesn't matter anyway. Planning extraordinary rendition from within this country to a country planning to torture/execute is bad enough.