Trump's 'trust' in Flynn must have 'eroded' rapidly last night

[bigtree]

...according to Conway, Flynn was still fully engaged in the administration hours before Spicer says he 'asked' for his resignation, including participating in national security briefings.

Link to tweet

from Matthew Yglesiasz;

The resignation certainly seems to have been precipitated by a Monday evening Washington Post report saying that former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates had apprised White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn appeared to have mislead Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The story came out, it was a blockbuster, and shortly thereafter Flynn resigned. Just hours before the story dropped, Kellyanne Conway was assuring reporters that President Trump had “full confidence” in Flynn.

Then came the story. Then came Flynn’s resignation. The transition from confidence to resigned, in short, seems to have had something to do with the story.

read: http://www.vox.com/2017/2/14/14613308/why-was-michael-flynn-fired

[tavernier]

1. Eroding Trust is a republican phrase for

Better you than me.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. He took him to Mar A Lago over the weekend.

And had him standing over his shoulder during the North Korean missile matter. We all saw the photos.

Just the base stupidity and the lying.

[herding cats]

3. Either the left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing,

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Or, this was total lies and the situation required a quick exit before Pence and Trump were exposed.

My money is on the latter.

[spanone]

4. what is so scary, is the ease with which they lie.

[bigtree]

5. it seems a bit desperate, to me

...Spicer left so much out of his explanation that it invites further scrutiny, rather than dampens the appetite for it.

[Blue_Tires]

6. The fact of the matter is both Pence and Trump knew about this for weeks

and the ONLY reason why they still aren't spinning for Flynn is because the WaPo story created so much heat...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. WRONG BT

Not weeks ! MONTHS. Well, don't know about Pence - just a yokel trying to figure out where M Street is. But I would bet almost anything that Trump and Bannon and Putin and Flynn planned this whole thing long ago. Including the DNC hacking.

[dembotoz]

7. Obviously loyalty is a one way street

Perhaps cabinet officials should rent their houses by the hour
Would appear the perv president could provide wisdom from his experience in Russia renting a room by the hour

[spanone]

8. trump knew 2 and 1/2 weeks ago.

[joshcryer]

9. He resigned four hours after Adam Entous posted his Yates report.

They were going to cover it up until that happened. Period.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Someone was saying last night that they were all waiting to see all the evidence and if it

was de-encrypted? Like maybe at first it was just partially de-encrypted. Probably just to make sure Trump's name not in it?