The Washington Post reports that Trump knew “for weeks” that Flynn lied.
President Trump was aware that his national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled White House officials and Vice President Pence for “weeks” before he was forced to resign on Monday night.
Trump was briefed by White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn had discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian ambassador “immediately” after McGahn was informed that Flynn had misled Pence, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
”We’ve been reviewing and evaluating this issue with respect to Gen. Flynn on a daily basis for a few weeks, trying to ascertain the truth,” Spicer said.
The comments contradict the impression given by Trump on Friday aboard Air Force One that he was not familiar with a Washington Post report that revealed that Flynn had not told the truth about the calls. ”I don’t know about that. I haven’t seen it. What report is that? I haven’t seen that. I’ll look into that,” Trump told the plane.
Spicer said that the president and a small group of senior aides were briefed in late January after the Justice Department informed McGahn about Flynn’s calls.
The White House Counsel’s office conducted a “review” of the legal issues and determined that “there was not a legal issue but rather a trust issue,” Spicer said. “The president was very concerned that Gen. Flynn had misled the vice president and others. The president must have complete and unwavering trust of the person in that position.”
Spicer said that “the evolving an eroding level of trust as a result of a series of other issues is what led the president to ask for Gen. Flynn’s resignation.
“ The press secretary repeatedly said that Trump was not concerned with the nature of the conversations that Flynn had with the Russian ambassador but that the lack of trust created an “unsustainable” situation. ”The president has no problem with the fact that he acted in accord with what his job was supposed to be,” Spicer said.
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Spicer’s press conference on this matter was a farce.
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One of the Democrat representatives discussed this on NPR this morning, and had an interesting reply. According to him, the fact that this was known for some time at the White House really does not matter at this point in time. Ad an organisation, this White House is still in it’s essential setting up periode.
For him, it would have been a lot worse if this would have played a few months from now.
It was a lot more important that the Logan law may have been broken, and that policy could have been discussed.
Things like this, again according the speaker, happen in every new administration. Not sure about paths to follow and such…
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Treason happens in the early days of every administration? Rudy, give us some examples.
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Treason? what treason? Are you really so filled with hate for this man that facts don’t matter?
If even the Democrat representative won’t take it beyond the Logan law, where in the world do you get treason from???
He was a civilian interfering in government business.
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Rudy,
Read the latest New York Times article about multiple contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence agents. Sounds like treason to me. But what do I know? I’m not as smart as you. In my long life, I have never heard of a presidential campaign colluding with a foreign power.
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Treason: Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
Please tell me what trump et al did that matches the legal definition of treason.
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Rudy, it remains to be determined whether there was treason. We won’t know unless there is a full, independent investigation. At present, the Republicans have refused to commit to a special prosecutor or independent commission.
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Correct. It remains to be determined, so your accusation of treason was premature. And even then, even then, it will not measure up to the level of treason as described in the code.
As far as investigation is concerned, the Republicans have said he will be called in for a conversation and explanation to the appropriate committee(s), and based on that, others things may happen.
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Rudy,
A conversation is not an independent investigation. A conversation is a cover-up. We need an independent bipartisan commission with subpoena powers, led by a respected person, to investigate the most dangerous threat to our nation since the Civil War.
Anything less is a whitewash.
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Whatever works. On the other hand, independent investigations could lead to, “That depends on what “is” is…” and still not get solid answers.
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*Democratic representatives
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“Yet the Washington Post reported days ago that Kislyak told the newspaper he had been in touch with Flynn since before the election. The ambassador declined to say what he and Flynn had discussed. And the newspaper reported that the Flynn-Kislyak conversations “were part of a series of contacts between Flynn and Kislyak that began before the Nov. 8 election and continued during the transition, officials said.” These facts and Kislyak’s comment undercut Trump’s and Pence’s assertions there were no pre-election contacts.”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/sean-spicer-ducks-question-about-trump-campaign-contacts-with-russia
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