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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums****BREAKING NEWS**** White House not denying Obama told Trump not to hire the traitorous Flynn
The Collaborator In Chief didn't believe it was a substantive warning.
PER MSNBC
ck4829
(35,077 posts)CanonRay
(14,104 posts)what could he know.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)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)From "Nobody told us" to "Oh they told us, but it wasn't enough to go on". Sure it wasn't.
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)And if Trump knew, so did Pence.
This would be somewhat relieving if there weren't more wingnut piles in the line of succession.
HAB911
(8,904 posts)between Country before Party
malaise
(269,054 posts)Fuck the Con and his goons
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)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.
triron
(22,007 posts)or so it seems.