READ: Michael Flynn's Resignation Letter

[DonViejo]

Read the full text of the letter released by the White House:

In the course of my duties as the incoming National Security Advisor, I held numerous phone calls with foreign counterparts, ministers, and ambassadors. These calls were to facilitate a smooth transition and begin to build the necessary relationships between the President, his advisors and foreign leaders. Such calls are standard practice in any transition of this magnitude.

Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of events, I inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. I have sincerely apologized to the President and the Vice President, and they have accepted my apology.

Throughout my over thirty three years of honorable military service, and my tenure as the National Security Advisor, I have always performed my duties with the utmost of integrity and honesty to those I have served, to include the President of the United States.

I am tendering my resignation, honored to have served our nation and the American people in such a distinguished way.

I am also extremely honored to have served President Trump, who in just three weeks, has reoriented American foreign policy in fundamental ways to restore America's leadership position in the world.

As I step away once again from serving my nation in this current capacity, I wish to thank President Trump for his personal loyalty, the friendship of those who I worked with throughout the hard fought campaign, the challenging period of transition, and during the early days of his presidency.

I know with the strong leadership of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence and the superb team they are assembling, this team will go down in history as one of the greatest presidencies in U.S. history, and I firmly believe the American people will be well served as they all work together to help Make America Great Again.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michael-flynn-resignation-letter

[lapfog_1]

1. I think there is a demonstrable lie in EVERY sentence

yup...

[DURHAM D]

2. When it was read on tv last night I stopped

my DVR and rolled it back to make sure I heard it right when I heard this sentence:

"I am tendering my resignation, honored to have served our nation and the American people in such a distinguished way. "

His self praise was just weird. That sentence should read:

"I am tendering my resignation, I am ashamed to have dishonored our nation and the American people in such a way."

[boston bean]

3. sounded like Trump dictated it.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Not Trump-- big words in that thing. There are lists of standard resignation letters.

[boston bean]

5. He dictated and then somebody made use of a thesaurus.

[PRETZEL]

6. About the only thing that is probably true is the first paragraph

yeah, I would think that as part of the transition, he would have reached out to friendly counterparts (Russia a friendly counterpart?) to introduce himself and get a feel for their thoughts. I highly doubt the topic of upcoming sanctions about to be imposed by the sitting President should have been on that agenda.

As he said, he spent 30 years in the military and had a tenure as DIA and now all of a sudden he gets caught up in "fast pace of events"? And at the same time, he didn't recollect the topics and details of this conversation?

For me, personally, General Flynn fell on his sword to protect his superiors. Plain and simple. And, personally, Vice President Pence is not at the top of the command structure.