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****BREAKING NEWS**** White House not denying Obama told Trump not to hire the traitorous Flynn (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 OP
Heh ck4829 May 2017 #1
'Course not, it came from the black guy CanonRay May 2017 #2
"Not a substantive warning"? Bull! Trump didn't & doesn't care that Flynn WePurrsevere May 2017 #3
And this, boys and girls, is what we call "moving the goalposts" ck4829 May 2017 #4
Yep. kentuck May 2017 #7
Emphasis on "also". HughBeaumont May 2017 #9
Therin lies the difference HAB911 May 2017 #5
They can't - bet it was recorded malaise May 2017 #6
ridiculous deflection from Chump. He still should have discussed with WH Counsel, and Turn CO Blue May 2017 #8
This is continuation of MSM pushing the Flynn "fall guy" theme triron May 2017 #10
WH responds with another grammatical train wreck: L. Coyote May 2017 #11

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
3. "Not a substantive warning"? Bull! Trump didn't & doesn't care that Flynn
Mon May 8, 2017, 11:49 AM
May 2017

Is/was also in cahoots with Putin. That would have been a bonus as far as Trump is concerned. The real reason Trump finally let Flynn go was in the hope it would take the heat off of himself and his collusion with Putin, etc.

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
4. And this, boys and girls, is what we call "moving the goalposts"
Mon May 8, 2017, 11:50 AM
May 2017

From "Nobody told us" to "Oh they told us, but it wasn't enough to go on". Sure it wasn't.

kentuck

(111,103 posts)
7. Yep.
Mon May 8, 2017, 11:52 AM
May 2017

He had no choice but to get rid of Flynn to keep the heat off himself. It was not because he "lied to VP Pence". The Administration lied about that.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
9. Emphasis on "also".
Mon May 8, 2017, 11:53 AM
May 2017

And if Trump knew, so did Pence.

This would be somewhat relieving if there weren't more wingnut piles in the line of succession.

Turn CO Blue

(4,221 posts)
8. ridiculous deflection from Chump. He still should have discussed with WH Counsel, and
Mon May 8, 2017, 11:52 AM
May 2017

head of transition team (Pence) and Chief of Staff (Priebus) at the very least if he had any degree of legitimacy.

But since he is illegitimate, well, it's more likely that Flynn/Putin brought in Chump over two years ago -- instead of the other way around

It is now clear to me that their hiring and appointing practices required not more than two degrees of separation from a Russian Oligarch although it may be that some could skate by and get hired in the administration with ties to a Chinese casino syndicate.

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