Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Donald Trump unaware Michael Flynn was a 'foreign agent', Sean Spicer says

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/09/michael-flynn-foreign-agent-sean-spicer
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Former national security adviser retroactively disclosed that he lobbied for firm linked to Turkish government while working as Trump’s campaign adviser

Donald Trump was unaware his former national security adviser Michael Flynn was working as a “foreign agent” when he gave him the job, according to his press secretary.

“I don’t believe that was known,” said Sean Spicer, when asked by reporters at his regular press briefing on Thursday.

Flynn resigned in February after just four weeks as national security adviser when it came to light that he had misled the vice-president, Mike Pence, about phone conversations with the Russian ambassador about sanctions in December. The resignation came after a flow of intelligence leaks revealed that he had secretly discussed sanctions with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and then tried to cover up the conversations.

On Wednesday, it was revealed that from September to November last year, while he was working as a top adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign, Flynn was lobbying for a firm linked to the Turkish government, earning $530,000. He and his company Flynn Intel Group Inc filed retroactive documents with the Department of Justice two days ago to register as a foreign agent.
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Bullshit I say - he was Mr Wonderful destroyed by the media according to Groper

[TubbersUK]

1. White House Demonstrably Lying About Flynn

3/9/17, AP: "President Donald Trump was not aware that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had worked to further the interests of the government of Turkey before appointing him, the White House said Thursday."

Here is a selection of published reports from November and December detailing Flynn's lobbying on behalf of Turkish interests before Flynn was appointed.

11/18/16, Letter, Rep. Elijah Cummings to Vice President-Elect Mike Pence: "Lt. Gen. Flynn’s General Counsel and Principal, Robert Kelley, confirmed that they were hired by a foreign company to lobby for Turkish interests, stating: “They want to keep posted on what we all want to be informed of: the present situation, the transition between President Obama and President-Elect Trump.”

LATE UPDATE - 12:44 am, Special Bonus Addition: here's Vice President Pence twice volunteering, unasked, that this was 'the first I'd heard of it'.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white-house-demonstrably-lying-about-flynn

[democratisphere]

6. Looking forward to this entire WH being taken down.

It appears that most republiCONs just can't be anything other than corrupt.

[dubyadiprecession]

2. Flynn could have bugged Trump tower.

Why should we automatically put something like this, past him? Flynn's working as a foreign agent.

[Lucinda]

3. My immediate response was the same as what you posted.

Bullshit.
I even considered looking it up in several languages, for emphasis.

[ATL Ebony]

5. Here ya go:

bollocks (British English)
Scheiß (German)
knulla här skiten (Sweden)
fuck hierdie kak (Afrikaans)
baiser cette merde (French)
qij këtë mut (Albanian)

[Lucinda]

12. LOL. Awesome. Thanks!

[malaise]

16. ROFL

Bet he didn't now about Ross either - this must be the most corrupt bunch in history

[Lucinda]

21. Trumpy will definitely have that title all sewed up. He does so want to win at something

"The Bigliest Corruption Bunch" title come with a trophy?

[March 4th]

4. Donald Trump Unaware

Period!

[eShirl]

7. Not just any old foreign agent; Flynn was an *UNREGISTERED* FOREIGN AGENT.

Wonder why he's finally registering now, retroactively, after all this time?

[malaise]

17. Criminal proceedings?

kind of like Sessions memory loss - he got over that quickly and retroactively

[HipChick]

9. How are these WH folks getting Security Clearances?..

[wishstar]

11. CNN even ran story on it last year-

"Michael Flynn ran company that lobbied for foreign clients while he received intel briefings"


http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-advisor/index.html

General consensus was that Flynn and Trump were given very limited briefings since the Russian and Turkish connections were suspected or known.

[dalton99a]

18. It's a den of spies, traitors and crooks.

[Solly Mack]

13. Oh, bullshit.

[Worktodo]

14. $530,000 is a lot of money

[progressoid]

15. To us it is.

Drop in the bucket to these assholes.

[dalton99a]

20. Usually it's a mere "down payment"

[spanone]

19. bullshit squared!!!!

Liar-in-Chief