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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPence and other Trump people tell another lie: Flynn resigned. He didn't get fired.
Michael Flynn Resigns as National Security Adviser
Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, resigned on Monday night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
Mr. Flynn, who served in the job for less than a month, said he had given incomplete information regarding a telephone call he had with the ambassador in late December about American sanctions against Russia, weeks before President Trumps inauguration. Mr. Flynn previously had denied that he had any substantive conversations with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, and Mr. Pence repeated that claim in television interviews as recently as this month.
But on Monday, a former administration official said the Justice Department warned the White House last month that Mr. Flynn had not been fully forthright about his conversations with the ambassador. As a result, the Justice Department feared that Mr. Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow.
In his resignation letter, which the White House emailed to reporters, Mr. Flynn said he had held numerous calls with foreign officials during the transition. 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, he wrote. I have sincerely apologized to the president and the vice president, and they have accepted my apology.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn.html?_r=0
Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, resigned on Monday night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
Mr. Flynn, who served in the job for less than a month, said he had given incomplete information regarding a telephone call he had with the ambassador in late December about American sanctions against Russia, weeks before President Trumps inauguration. Mr. Flynn previously had denied that he had any substantive conversations with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, and Mr. Pence repeated that claim in television interviews as recently as this month.
But on Monday, a former administration official said the Justice Department warned the White House last month that Mr. Flynn had not been fully forthright about his conversations with the ambassador. As a result, the Justice Department feared that Mr. Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow.
In his resignation letter, which the White House emailed to reporters, Mr. Flynn said he had held numerous calls with foreign officials during the transition. 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, he wrote. I have sincerely apologized to the president and the vice president, and they have accepted my apology.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn.html?_r=0
Don't let these f*ckers spin this to make it seem Trump did the right thing. He didn't. He was furious Flynn resigned. Remember that?
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Pence and other Trump people tell another lie: Flynn resigned. He didn't get fired. (Original Post)
MelissaB
Mar 2017
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no_hypocrisy
(46,009 posts)1. When you're told to resign, it's constructive termination of employment.
Being fired by direction, by remote control. But you're still fired when it's all over.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)2. But wasn't Trump pissed he resigned?
I think so.
no_hypocrisy
(46,009 posts)4. Trump did say that but I don't know when he's telling the truth or lying.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)3. I just saw the clip of Pence lying again on CNN saying, "... it's the first I heard of it."
Lies and the lying liars who tell them!