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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlynn admits to treason. Apologizes. Still has job and he is not in jail. And so it goes.....
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/13/flynn-apologizes-after-admitting-he-may-have-discussed-sanctions-russia/97852248/
Link to tweet
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still_one
(91,937 posts)Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)not really surprising.
still_one
(91,937 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)still_one
(91,937 posts)of his actions and views, he may be registered as a Democrat, but he sure isn't by his actions
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)They certainly never do something like that out of integrity.
still_one
(91,937 posts)his families background then his views
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Guess his family were decent ppl, but this one kid got the bad seed.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)Would that actually make you a Republican? Probably not so much, I would guess.
It's fairly clear Flynn lacks a full pond of ducks. Who the heck knows why he registered as a Dem.
He's not a Dem.
phylny
(8,353 posts)blue for at least 17 years.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)My state doesn't require that you register as 1 or the other. I voted rep for Rubio to vote against Trump then for Hillary in November
kacekwl
(6,993 posts)What more do you want ?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)We now know that both Nixon and Reagan committed treason to be elected, nobody cares about that.
trof
(54,255 posts)get the red out
(13,458 posts)And Putin said to forgive him.
pbmus
(12,418 posts)Phoenix61
(16,950 posts)So they're all buddies now. How much you want to bet he has an accident within a month?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Secret contacts with Putin are the reason Orange hired Flynn.
Phoenix61
(16,950 posts)and fear that he will sing like a canary.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So far Orange is getting away with almost everything.
But fools have a way of getting hoisted by their own retards.
anarch
(6,535 posts)gosh, if he's sorry, I guess that makes it all OK.
Cha
(295,899 posts)don't know about.
If he "apologized".. ooops. Then there must be proof.
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)Do you think the NSA, FBI or CIA may have some more detailed information as to what was said?
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)not.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)SMH
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republicans are 'special' and don't do morality, ethics, or the US Constitution, so as a republican Flynn is exempt from any and all responsibility for his heinous actions against the people of the United States of America.
Dem2
(8,166 posts)Hey, it's your credibility SCROTUS (I'm learning to like this term), the more criminal you're seen as, the less u can get away with.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I can't help but wonder what happened to all the security-obsessed Trump supporters, the ones who just KNEW that Secretary Clinton was selling out the country by using a private e-mail server that was never compromised. Oh, it was so much fun chanting "Lock her up" at all those rallies! Almost liturgical, you know?
Now we have one security breach after another, and all I hear from President Trump's supporters is how transparent the new administration is. No, really.
TNLib
(1,819 posts)They are only concerned with kicking brown people out of the US.
3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...apologize for treason? Who knew it was that easy?
Girard442
(6,059 posts)After all, what's wrong with speaking with a fellow employee who's working on the same project?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Usually they rely on claiming a renewed relationship with kkkrist.
OnDoutside
(19,906 posts)lot worse. Democrats better up the pressure significantly.
Leghorn21
(13,520 posts)I guess I'll get off the interwebs for a bit b/c goddamit.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)He's covering for Trump and Pence if they accept his apology.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)global1
(25,166 posts)I'm thinking that if he goes down - he takes 45Pee with him along with a whole host of other Repugs and administration flunky's.
So 45Pee is getting blackmailed both by Putin and Flynn.
Isn't life great?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)the WSJ has this to say:
Hes apologized to everyone, the official said of Mr. Flynn.
...
For those who may not have followed the story, Flynn initially said that in a conversation Dec. 29 with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, he didnt discuss sanctions imposed that day by the outgoing Obama administration, which were levied in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Flynn now concedes that he did, administration officials said, after transcripts of his phone calls show as much. He also admits he spoke with the ambassador more than once on Dec. 29, despite weeks of the Trump teams insisting it was just one phone call, officials said.
U.S. intelligence services routinely intercept and monitor conversations with Russian diplomats officials have said. , While the transcripts of the conversations dont show Mr. Flynn made any sort of promise to lift the sanctions once Mr. Trump took office, they show Flynn making more general comments about relations between the two countries improving under Mr. Trump, people familiar with them said.
http://bestsellermagazine.com/news/Trump,-Bannon-Said-To-Weigh-Firing-Mike-Flynn-Over-Russian-Phone-Calls-Scandal
coco22
(1,258 posts)only apologies accepted.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)raccoon
(31,089 posts)Maven
(10,533 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)it doesn't matter that TANG had all of this country's secrets spread out on the table a Mar-a-Lago for all the world to see. Ron Johnson is as crooked as they come.
Grammy23
(5,807 posts)without ANY KIND of security clearance sitting near the tables being used for the Pow Wow over how to respond to North Korea. And some were watching in curiosity, while others were boldly snapping selfies and bragging about being with the guy with the nuclear codes!
We are well and truly screwed, people.
coco22
(1,258 posts)at the desk in the whitehouse surrounded with many people and CLASSIFIED cases stacked on his desk with keys still attached to the briefs.
tavernier
(12,322 posts)Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he casually mention that North Korea shouldn't be doing these things, and next time it happens, we should take them out?
I had sort of blacked out directly following his casual statement expressing the need to take out another country that I may have missed something.
coco22
(1,258 posts)Johnson,Woolsey and other CONS have been all over media telling the public what we should be outrage at as though we can't see what is being revealed day by day,more and more.
I saw the Russian influence and we were talking about Flynn and his relationship with Putin all along,Manafort,Bannon,Tillerson,etc..something is going on.
Liberal In Red State
(442 posts)Grins
(7,128 posts)24x7 pant-shitting howling from the Reich-wing media that would go on for years.
Texin
(2,585 posts)Guess he knows who's really the boss.
Pathetic.
ck4829
(34,974 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,536 posts)Gee, I like the sound of that.
procon
(15,805 posts)Never forget that Trump said that.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)So if he didn't say he was sorry, what? They'd throw the book at him?
What a joke our entire system isall the way down to the press for not telling us how fucked we really are.
The L.A. Times paints a pretty, rose-colored picture of this administration.
What a piece of junk this country turned out to be. And all for a few rich people.
MedusaX
(1,129 posts)Most likely the alleged apology was not for talking to Russia about Sanctions/ aka treasonous acts.....
but for supposedly not telling Pence the truth...
It is about the same as KaC allegedly being "counseled" for her illegal action.
I believe it falls under the category of alternative consequences...