It’s getting very hot inside the White House. You can bet that Trump knew everything that Kushner and Pence did and said…
The documents do not say who directed Flynn to discuss sanctions with Kislyak — a conversation Flynn later reportedly lied about to Vice President Mike Pence, a lie that was the stated reason that Trump fired Flynn in February. But Flynn’s statement, following his Friday guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with Mueller’s probe, shows that the transition team, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, was informed at every stage of his discussions with Kislyak.
And that itself raises new questions about what Pence, who ran the presidential transition and publicly affirmed that Flynn never talked to Kislyak about Russia sanctions, actually knew.
*Pence’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the presidential transition team’s legal team also didn’t immediately respond.
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Flynn could implicate someone even more important than himself. And that person is likely the “very senior” official who Flynn alluded to in his statement, according to the former DOJ official, who added that Jared Kushner best fits the description.
Now we know why Trump canceled his presser this morning.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior adviser at the White House, reportedly directed former national security adviser Michael Flynn to contact the Russian government, and others, about a United Nations resolution on Israeli settlements in Dec. 2016, according to a report.
Two former members of Trump’s transition team told Bloomberg
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Kushner:
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn's guilty plea Friday for lying to the FBI is alarming news for Donald Trump. But the first person it's likely to jeopardize will be the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Two former officials with the Trump transition team who worked closely with Flynn say that during the last days of the Obama administration, the retired general was instructed to contact foreign ambassadors and foreign ministers of countries on the U.N. Security Council, ahead of a vote condemning Israeli settlements. Flynn was told to try to get them to delay that vote until after Barack Obama had left office, or oppose the resolution altogether.
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