Ignore the latest tweets - A Timeline of the Con's Comments on 'out like Flynn'

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/a-timeline-of-trumps-comments-on-flynn/2017/12/01/950935dc-d6d0-11e7-9ad9-ca0619edfa05_video.html

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Trump puts his presidency at risk to defend Michael Flynn

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/12/01/trump-put-his-presidency-at-risk-to-defend-michael-flynn-what-happened/
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For the second time in a little over a month, the White House on Friday was forced to distance itself from a person implicated in criminal activity on President Trump’s behalf.

“Today, Michael Flynn, a former National Security Adviser at the White House for 25 days during the Trump administration, and a former Obama administration official, entered a guilty plea to a single count of making a false statement to the FBI,” Trump’s lawyer wrote in a statement.

The implication is that Flynn was removed from the president, just some guy who’d worked for Obama and who temporarily served Trump in the White House. It’s nonsense both because of what we know about Flynn’s time with Trump, and because of how hard Trump once fought to defend his friend.

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Now the fucker is lying again
Flynn was one of the first passengers on the Trump train. By late February 2016, he was reported to be advising Trump’s presidential campaign; over the course of the next nine months he became a critical and visible surrogate for the candidate. When Trump was criticized for a lack of endorsements from the national security establishment, he had a Flynn card, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency — under Barack Obama, no less! — who would advocate on his behalf.

Flynn was awarded time to speak during the Republican convention that July. He gave a fiery speech, excoriating Hillary Clinton as having committed criminal acts and joining the crowd in a chant of “lock her up.”

“If I did a tenth of what she did,” Flynn said of Clinton during that speech, “I would be in jail today!”

The criminal charges revealed Friday morning moved Flynn significantly closer to that fate. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III unveiled documents showing that Flynn lied to federal investigators about his interactions with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, during the presidential transition period last December. It’s the most significant criminal charge made public by Mueller to date, targeting a senior campaign and administration official. (It was only after details of his conversations with Kislyak were made public that Flynn was ousted from the White House.)

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1. Deeper and deeper

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2. I'm surprised

they didn't note that Flynn was registered as a Democrat.