Trump knew Flynn misled officials on Russia calls for weeks

[struggle4progress]

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]

1. And so did Pence

n/t

[jmg257]

8. Now they're saying pence didn't know till Feb 9th???

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. Truth wins out every time....so, shitfetz..DO YOUR JOB!

[TrekLuver]

7. This is the opening we needed. We all knew Phlegm was lying when he said oh no we didn't talk

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]

3. opppps.......Tell me it ain't true...Trump lied?

how can that be???? The next thing I will be told is that the world is round...

[struggle4progress]

4. Trump Informed 17 Days Ago Flynn Not Truthful

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. Trump’s senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, could say that Mr. Flynn had the president’s full trust on Monday afternoon ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/donald-trump-administration-michael-flynn-resignation.html

[Eugene]

5. "evolving and eroding process"

IOW, we're making this up as we go along.

[Hortensis]

6. Sure. Flynn was almost certainly just following orders.

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]

9. Yep - discussed today in the Spicer presser.

After WH counsel looked into it, they decided 'it wasn't a legal issue, but a trust issue'.