Flynn Resigns. No Shit!

[bunnie3]

No surprise here.  Ha ha...what bunch of lying, bumbling fools. Who s next???  I 'll take bets....(Conway).

[PalJoey]

 

Not Conway. Priebus.

 

[kdogg36]

This should be fun to watch!

[BroadwayConcierge]

He made a mistake, took responsibility, and took his punishment by stepping down. End of story. That's how it's done.

It's concerning to see people relishing the notion of administrative discord.

[kdogg36]

Look, I have no love for previous presidential administrations. But you must realize there's something uncommonly silly and random about this one. If you don't, then you're just being intentionally dense.

[adamgreer]

Kellyanne will go down with the ship. She has nothing to lose. 

Priebus will probably be next, and that'll mean the end of Spicer, who Drumph reportedly hates, anyway. 

[A Director]

BroadwayConcierge said: "He made a mistake, took responsibility, and took his punishment by stepping down. End of story. That's how it's done.

No! This! Is! Not! The End Of The Story!

It's concerning to see people relishing the notion of administrative discord.

Nope!  People are concerned this administration is in discord!

 

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[ErikJ972]

BroadwayConcierge said: "He made a mistake, took responsibility, and took his punishment by stepping down. End of story. That's how it's done.

It's concerning to see people relishing the notion of administrative discord."

That's a rosy picture you paint of Flynn. Of course it ignores the fact the only reason he resigned is that he got caught. And makes no mention of the fact the Trump administration was warned that Flynn was vulnerable to Russian bribes. Which didn't seem to bother the Trump or his administration.

 

[South Florida]

It's concerning to see people relishing the notion of administrative discord.

Notion?  How about fact.

[Bitchalicious]

So much for draining that swamp. All the crud that was at the bottom has risen to the top.

Upheaval is now standard operating procedure inside the White House

Every deceit exposed, every misstep, every meltdown by President Agent Orange and Sean Spicerack, every moronic utterance by Kellyanne Conjob that is there for all the world to see, scrutinize and tear down as it all rightfully deserves to be brings utter joy to my heart.

Excuse me while I now go and do my "happy dance".

 

[PalJoey]

 

He made a mistake, took responsibility, and took his punishment by stepping down. End of story. That's how it's done.

 

Nice try, but he likely committed treason.

He used to lead the "JAIL HER! JAIL HER!" chants.

Now it's his turn to contemplate a jail sentence.

Karma.

[Bitchalicious]

Hours before General Flynn resigned in DISGRACE. THIS is what the House Intel Chair had to say about him. 

Deeply telling.

"I have great confidence in Michael Flynn. He's probably the best intelligence officer of his generation."

 

REMEMBER THAT.

[Bitchalicious]

Flynn exhorting chants of "lock her up" during the campaign: "If I did a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today."

Well, time will tell Mr. Flynn.

 

[Bitchalicious]

BroadwayConcierge said: "He made a mistake, took responsibility, and took his punishment by stepping down. End of story. That's how it's done.

It's concerning to see people relishing the notion of administrative discord.

 

O-M-G!! That is so hilarious! 

What's absolutely concerning to ME are the IDIOTS those of your ilk voted for that are an utter DISGRACE to this country, it's citizens and it's ideals.

Remember: YOU voted for this. Now put on your big boy pants and suck it up because it's only the beginning and it's going to get worse.

 

 

 

 

 

[madbrian]

Please don't feed the trolls.  If you allow them to deflect and distract, they will deflect and distract.

[ErikJ972]

Yates 2 - Trump 0

Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, officials say

"The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail, current and former U.S. officials said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-warned-white-house-that-flynn-could-be-vulnerable-to-russian-blackmail-officials-say/2017/02/13/fc5dab88-f228-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_flynnjustice-0811pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c17bc78c4482#comments

[PalJoey]

Here's Josh Marshall's astute analysis:

 

"As the Russia story submerged out of view in the first days of February, the Acting Attorney General had already warned the White House about Michael Flynn's deceptions and susceptibility to blackmail. She was fired for refusing to enforce the immigration executive order days later. Though the White House now denies it, it seems that the President and his top advisors took no action in response to these warnings.

We can now also see the outlines of another part of the story. It appears that repeated efforts were made to apprise President Trump or those around him of the situation with Michael Flynn. When those warnings were ignored, people in the national security and law enforcement apparatus went instead to the press to get the word out that way. Only now can we see some of the hidden actions which reveal the pattern and provide context to the leaks.

This is not some ill-considered discussion by Michael Flynn. The role of Russia in the 2016 election and the President's relationship to Russia has been the un-ignorable question hanging over President Trump for months. Flynn's resignation does not come close to resolving it. It is highly likely that the Flynn/Russia channel was authorized by the President himself. There's much more to come."....Josh Marshall

[madbrian]

I still say we have not heard the last of Paul Manafort.  When everything finally becomes public, I think his ties to Russia may turn out to be Trump's albatross.

[brdlwyr]

Wil Jason Chaffetz (I sold my daughters' safety and welfare for more power) inviestigate Flynn for the next 4 years?  

[adamgreer]

Petra stealing PJ's avatar is quite annoying.  I begin reading a post, assuming it's from PJ, wonder why he'd say such nonsense, and then eventually realize that it's not wise PJ, but in fact Petra masquerading as him.  

[henrikegerman]

BroadwayConcierge said: "He made a mistake, took responsibility, and took his punishment by stepping down. End of story. That's how it's done.

It's concerning to see people relishing the notion of administrative discord."

End of story, Broadway/Concierge?

Only if you are fool enough to not be at all concerned that the White House did nothing for weeks after learning of this until leaks forced Flynn to resign.   And only if you are fool enough to assume that Flynn must have been acting rogue in the first place.

No, this one is not going away.   How fairly and truthfully it will play out is the question.  

But thanks for your "end of story" suggestion.  It works perfectly well with Stephen Miller's "the president is not to be questioned"  threat.

 

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[madbrian]

This is Trump's tweet about Flynn:

“The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N.Korea etc?”

Interesting comment, considering Trump was openly discussing national security issues in front of his dinner guests at Mar-a-Lago last weekend.

[PalJoey]

 

From what I'm told, the leaks are coming from Priebus.

 

[madbrian]

Conway seems to have lost her ability to tap dance around basic questions from the media.  Or, perhaps they have finally become wise to her lies?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-mike-flynn-resigns_us_58a303f9e4b094a129eec6b3?

[Blue_Lotus]

This is really no laughing matter. This is serious stuff. This administration and what it is doing is downright scary, and this is only what we do know. I don't even want to think about what is being done that we don't know about.

It's unnerving to be faced with these kind of reports on an almost daily basis.

The president and his cabinet are proving that they are unfit to run this country.

The only thing they are going to succeed in is running it into the ground.

With this presidency we have truly entered an extremely dark, dark age.

All of this in the space of 1 month.

It's like a horrible nightmare. 

 

[henrikegerman]

The bull**** spin that it's about the leaks, rather than about what the leaks impart has got to stop.  
It's a distraction used by both Democrats and Republicans.  It was used by the Clinton campaign as unpersuasively as it is now being used by Trump.
Yes, of course leaks and cyber theft are serious concerns, and often criminal ones.
But that takes nothing away from the value of what we learn through them, which in the case of Flynn's conversations about the lifting of sanctions with the Russian ambassador, is both criminal and raises serious questions:  first and foremost, was Flynn acting under Trump's direction.

Equally importantly, why should it have taken a leak to force Flynn's resignation?  Why didn't Trump get rid of Flynn when he was told about the conversations?  For Trump to spin this to be about the leaks is rich.  It wouldn't have had to be about the leaks if he had done the right thing and gotten rid of Flynn weeks ago.   Why didn't he?   Perhaps just out of loyalty and wanting to give him a chance.  But perhaps - and to my mind a much more likely one - because he was was the one who asked Flynn to discuss sanctions - and to do so prior to his inauguration! - with Russia in the first place.