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Since it was just discussed on the Maddow Show tonight, I thought I dig up this contemporaneous post of mine, from back in the day. Concerning what was revealed in the Flynn discussion tonight, roughly put was this:
When Flynn was conducting back-channel discussions with Sergey Kislyak during the transition, about the lifting of Sanctions, and subsequently lied about — he was communicating with KT McFarland. It was further disclosed that McFarland was getting their marching orders from “senior Transition officials who were at Mar-a-Lago”.
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All that kind of puts KT McFarland “smoke screen” campaign of late Dec 2016, in an entirely different light. AKA where there’s Smoke, there’s Fire. Where there’s Lies, there’s Liars ...
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One big Problem with KT McFarland's Alibi -- The Meme she was 'Mocking', was NOT a Meme then — Dec 03, 2017
Here’s that latest bit of incriminating evidence, found by the Trump-Russia Investigation, found in a private email from Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisor at the time.
Top Trump transition official in private email: Russia 'has just thrown' the election to Trump
A senior member of President Donald Trump's transition team said in email to a colleague on December 29, 2016, shortly after the Obama administration had imposed new sanctions on Russia, that the transition team should try to reassure the country that had just "thrown" the election to Trump.
The transition official, KT McFarland, told the unnamed colleague in the email obtained by the New York Times that the sanctions were aimed at delegitimizing Trump's election victory.
“If there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown U.S.A. election to him,” she wrote.
Instead of take it at its prima facie value, KT and the Trump “brain trust”, are now trying to play it off as some sort of flippant statement, used sarcastically to mock the complaints of the Democrats:
[...] A White House lawyer told the Times that she was mocking Democrats' accusation — bolstered at that point by a CIA assessment — that Russia had interfered in the election to help Trump win.
If she were indeed “mocking a Democrat accusation” at the time, there should be abundance evidence of Democrats claiming that “Russia has thrown the US Election to Trump”.
As I recall, the vast majority of Democrats displayed an ‘abundance of caution’ at the time — to avoid making exactly that serious charge. Instead, “Russian Interference” in the campaign process — without affecting the results — was usually the complaint lodged by Democrats, back in November and December of 2016.
Most Democrats were very careful to echo the DNI conclusions about “Interference”, and then not go any further, in order to let the presumption of Election Integrity stand, until at least, proven otherwise.
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[That original post (above) went on to do some Google “Phrase Searches” limited to the Transition period, in an attempt to disprove KT McFarland alibi, that the “Russian thrown Election” was an active meme — and that she didn’t frame it that way herself, out of her own deep-seated “back-channel” fears. Google provided scant evidence it was an “active meme”.]
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The Transition Team “orchestrated” smokes-screens continued for a few weeks after that. As “Individual One” was desperately trying to get Mike Flynn a “free pass” Get out of Jail card. And “Individual Two” was running Team plays from the same Denial play book, as his Transition Team tried to get their “No Collusion” Ducks all in a “legitimately won” row:
Flynn's Secret Meeting with Kislyak was 'No Rogue Action' — Feb 19, 2018
AKA. “Individual Two” was very much in the loop back then. In the loop of what his own Transition Team was doing, despite his feigned, lame claims to the contrary.
Maybe this is what they mean when they (used to) say, “Be careful or your chickens might come home to roost” — Eh, Mikey?
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One Question: If everything was all above-board, then why all the Lies?