Flynn's Turkish lobbying client complained about Trump's stance during campaign

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Source: Politico

A foreign client paying retired Gen. Michael Flynn more than $500,000 to mount a campaign to advance Turkish government interests during the 2016 presidential campaign explicitly complained to a Flynn aide that then-candidate Donald Trump was not being supportive enough, newly released documents show.

A set of talking points prepared in October 2016 by Mike Boston, a former U.S. intelligence officer working with Flynn, indicate that “the client” backing the lobbying project complained that the GOP nominee had not gone to bat for Turkey. At the time, Flynn was also serving as a top foreign policy adviser to Trump.


“Republican Presidential candidate has not defended subject’s home country publicly. He should specifically ask questions about subject’s operations and funding,” Boston wrote under the heading “CLIENT FEEDBACK.”

The memo was obtained during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and has now become part of the criminal case against former Flynn business partner Bijan Rafiekian, who was indicted last December for acting as an unregistered agent for Turkey in the U.S. and a related conspiracy charge.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/michael-flynn-turkey-lobbying-1349054

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....The documents were filed publicly on Thursday as part of a motion by prosecutors to get the judge in the case to allow them to present evidence of Kian’s discussions with attorneys about the lobbying efforts. Flynn Intelligence Group filed reports under the Lobbying Disclosure Act about the work, but made no mention that Turkish government officials had played any part in the project. In March 2017, FIG filed a belated Foreign Agents Registration Act disclosure providing more details about the engagement and saying it may have benefited Turkish interests.