Tying some threads together on links between Putin & The Con!

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http://jaybookman.blog.myajc.com/2017/02/20/opinion-the-strands-linking-putin-to-trump/

Opinion: The strands linking Putin to Trump

It’ll be a while before we know the truth, or some semblance of it. We will never know it all. But I’m beginning to think that the ouster of Mike Flynn as national security adviser had very little to do with his conversations about sanctions with the Russian ambassador or even his subsequent misleading denial to Vice President Mike Pence. Those may turn out to be the public excuses, not the private reasons, for his ouster.

In the event of an international crisis, you really don’t want a half-cocked president seeking counsel from a half-cocked national security adviser, a paranoid deputy national security adviser and the likes of Steve Bannon sitting on the National Security Council. If Pence and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus conspired to engineer Flynn’s removal, as some on the right allege, they deserve their country’s thanks for at least that much.

Flynn’s name also pops up in a startling new story published Monday by The New York Times that begins to peel back the network of ties linking Trump to Russia. The Times’ account — well-documented, using named sources — involves Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer, and Felix Sater, a Russian immigrant and convicted felon with long business ties to Trump.

Flynn’s name also pops up in a startling new story published Monday by The New York Times that begins to peel back the network of ties linking Trump to Russia. The Times’ account — well-documented, using named sources — involves Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer, and Felix Sater, a Russian immigrant and convicted felon with long business ties to Trump. Along with a pro-Putin Ukrainian legislator with political ties to Manafort, Cohen and Sater collaborated on a proposed “peace plan” for Ukraine along lines that would make Putin very happy. The Ukrainian, Andrii V. Artemenko, told the Times that top aides to Putin had signed off on the deal.

There are a few other comments in that article, but the powers in charge here on DU would be angry if I posted anymore.

It sounds to me like were soon going to start hearing the "I" word mentioned more and more.