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Dialing-back the Way-back machine to Jan-Feb 2017 ...
What did Flynn do?
Flynn misled Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Press Secretary Sean Spicer about conversations he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, allowing all three to make repeated false public statements. He did not tell Pence the truth until after the facts were revealed by the Washington Post last week. On Tuesday, Spicer said Trump had known about Flynn’s inaccurate statements for nearly three weeks and had fired him because of an “eroding level of trust.”
— LA Times, Feb 15, 2017
Sean Spicer:
"The level of trust between the President and Gen. Flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change," Spicer told reporters Tuesday during his daily briefing. "The President was very concerned that Gen. Flynn had misled the vice president and others."
— CNN, Feb 15, 2017
Mike Pence:
Vice President Mike Pence said Monday he was "disappointed" that former national security adviser Michael Flynn misled him about his conversation with the Russian ambassador to Washington.
"I was disappointed to learn that ... the facts that had been conveyed to me by Gen. Flynn were inaccurate. But we honor Gen. Flynn's long service to the United States of America, and I fully support the President's decision to ask for his resignation," Pence said at a news conference Monday in Brussels.
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Pence, speaking Monday, called Flynn's firing "the proper decision" and said "it was handled properly and in a timely way."
— CNN, Feb 20, 2017
Donald Trump:
Trump said last week that he was not bothered that Flynn discussed the sanctions, but said that he had lost trust in Flynn because he did not disclose the details to Pence, who in subsequent TV interviews insisted Flynn had not discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador.
— CNN, Feb 20, 2017
You know who else “did not disclose the details to Pence” …
In new developments Tuesday, it emerged that President Donald Trump was told on January 26 -- more than two weeks ago -- that the Justice Department had concerns about Flynn's conduct.
Pence did not find out he had been misled until February 9, according to two administration officials.
"It's not that he was being left out. It was a legal review," one source said.
Donald Trump:
"I fired him because of what he said to Mike Pence."
Trump added that he had no problem with Flynn making the calls because he was "doing his job."
Flynn resigned Monday as national security advisor following revelations that he made contradictory statements to Pence about whether he discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. However, when press secretary Sean Spicer later said that the White House was warned on Jan. 26 that Flynn may have misled Pence, it raised questions about why it took more than two weeks for him to resign.
Trump maintained that he asked Flynn to resign only because of the statements he made to Pence, not because they were made public in a Washington Post report.
— CNBC, Feb 15, 2017
Oh Really?
When did Trump decide to fire Flynn?
As late as Monday morning [Feb 13], Flynn gave an interview to the Daily Caller, a conservative outlet, in which he said that Trump had “expressed confidence” in him and told him to “go out and talk more.” That afternoon, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Trump had “full confidence” in Flynn.
A few hours later, Flynn was fired.
The decision appears to have come only after the Post contacted the White House on Monday afternoon to seek comment on another article that detailed law enforcement officials’ attempt to warn Trump weeks earlier that Flynn might be vulnerable to blackmail by Russia because of his false statements.
— LA Times, Feb 15, 2017
Michael Flynn is telling an entirely accurate version of events now. One that makes all of Trump’s “cover stories” (of ‘protecting the sanctity’ of the VP Office), look like so much hogwash:
[...] So far, the special counsel has released little information about the charges, but the two-page document indicates that Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak concerned presidential policy. [...]
The fact that Flynn was operating on behalf of the incoming government represents the first concrete case of Trump’s presidential staff, rather than his campaign team, covering up contacts with Russia. Prosecutors said in court filings on Friday that Flynn called a “senior official of the Presidential Transition Team” on December 29, after being contacted by Kislyak, and was told that the transition did not want Russia to escalate the situation. Flynn then called Kislyak to request that Russia respond only in a reciprocal manner, which it subsequently did.
— The Atlantic, Dec 1, 2017
And Trump’s current response to the being caught red-handed, and having his sanctimonious “cover story” at the time, being turned into yet another bad soap-opera episode, of Trouble in Trumpland ...
He just “had to”.
Never mind that Trump was Lying to the VP too, right along with their ‘Russian Envoy’ Flynn;
— THAT, or Pence was in on it, the Xmas Sanctions Deal, all along — and he just couldn’t sell their “cover story” to the Media, like a good Vice President (and Transition Team Leader) is supposed to do:
But what I can confirm, having spoken to him about it, is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the United States took action to expel [Russian] diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions.
— Mike Pence on Face the Nation, Jan 15, 2017
That’s the “Reporting” of what they all said, America — Now you Decide.
(Who else is as “Guilty as Flynn”?)