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By Abby Phillip
February 14 at 2:04 PM
... White House counsel Don McGahn told Trump in a briefing late last month that Flynn, despite his claims to the contrary, had discussed U.S. sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday. The briefing came immediately after the Justice Department informed McGahn about the discrepancy, Spicer said ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/14/trump-was-told-weeks-ago-that-flynn-misled-vice-president-about-russia-contacts-white-house-says/?utm_term=.a87755c3dff9
malaise
(269,219 posts)n/t
jmg257
(11,996 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)sanctions we just talked about the weather....I KNEW this would be exposed. Also the lies are getting so numerous and too frequent...they are going to trip up more and more and more.
Stuart G
(38,453 posts)how can that be???? The next thing I will be told is that the world is round...
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)By JONATHAN WEISMAN, MATT FLEGENHEIMER and ERIC SCHMITT
UPDATED 4:02 PM
... Mr. Spicer said the president asked Mr. McGahn to then determine whether Mr. Flynn had violated the law. In the end, he said, there was a violation of trust, not a violation of law.
It was an evolving and eroding process, Mr. Spicer said when asked why Mr. Trumps senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, could say that Mr. Flynn had the presidents full trust on Monday afternoon ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/donald-trump-administration-michael-flynn-resignation.html
Eugene
(61,965 posts)IOW, we're making this up as we go along.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Do we think T-the-candidate and later T-the-prez-elect didn't know? It'd sure be interesting to know what all the Democratic Senators coming angry out of the meeting with intelligence officials and Comey learned that day.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)After WH counsel looked into it, they decided 'it wasn't a legal issue, but a trust issue'.