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ABC News Clarifies Bombshell: "President-elect" Trump, not "Candidate" Trump directed Flynn
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | December 1, 2017 | Brian

Posted on 12/01/2017 4:05:18 PM PST by Federalist Patriot

Wow! A huge “clarification” coming tonight from ABC News. Earlier today, reporter Brian Ross rocked the nation by reporting that Michael Flynn was prepared to testify that “candidate Donald Trump” had directed him to make contact with the Russians. The word “candidate” would mean during the 2016 Election. His report hit like a bombshell. But tonight, ABC News is reportedly clarifying that Ross should have said . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.net ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: abc; brianross; fakenews; flynn; mikeflynn; partisanmediashills; russia; trump
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To: Federalist Patriot

Either way was a nothing burger.


21 posted on 12/01/2017 4:19:02 PM PST by Lent
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To: Federalist Patriot

Obama declared himself President before being sworn in


22 posted on 12/01/2017 4:19:35 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Federalist Patriot

The Obama White House let in the female Russian lawyer who meet with Fusion GPS before meeting with Trump followed by GPS leaking a fake “Russia” showergate dossier and the DNC runs with Trump - Russia conspiracy theories ... but no, let’s say the conspiracy is Trump, not the Democrats engineering a set-up to try to take down the Republican candidate.


23 posted on 12/01/2017 4:21:37 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Federalist Patriot

The media are so obsessed with the Russian story they immediately jump to conclusions in their reporting. That is why you can not believe anything they say. This latest gross distortion is just the latest example of fake news. It is scandalous because it does great damage before it is corrected and if it is corrected there usually is no apology.


24 posted on 12/01/2017 4:22:07 PM PST by iontheball
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To: MNnice

He works for ABC which is the all bull sh*t network he will get a raise..this is how the media works..post big BS bombshell get everyone retreating it..a few hours later oopsie daisy my bad our mistake but no one hears it


25 posted on 12/01/2017 4:22:16 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MNnice

this guy? yep, more of the same...

http://gawker.com/5927715/americas-wrongest-reporter-abc-news-brian-ross-demonstrates-yet-again-how-he-earned-the-title


26 posted on 12/01/2017 4:28:04 PM PST by RacerX1128 (Cornered in CA: James Rocknowski)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Sounds like Comey needs to come out an say “the President acted carelessly” it seems to have worked for Hillary....


27 posted on 12/01/2017 4:29:35 PM PST by Cyclone59 (Common sense can solve a lot of issues when applied properly)
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To: Uncle Miltie
A Candidate or a President Elect is free to talk with whomever they please.

And Obama met with German Chancellor Merkel while he was still a candidate in 2008.

28 posted on 12/01/2017 4:30:13 PM PST by CedarDave (Alt-left hates presidents pics on paper money. I'll gladly collect those offensive bills from them!)
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To: Jonny7797

Correction. It WAS a nothing burger with frys, but we just took their frys back, along with the bun and the meat. All they are holding is their pickle covered in ketchup.


29 posted on 12/01/2017 4:30:38 PM PST by RainMan (rainman)
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To: laconic

this all is being done for political reasons....they gotta get the base to abandon Trump...he still has us..thats his power, and its huge. Once we leave him, they will impeach...


30 posted on 12/01/2017 4:32:27 PM PST by basalt
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To: Federalist Patriot

31 posted on 12/01/2017 4:33:38 PM PST by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: griswold3

That, plus, exactly how does a candidate everyone knows is going to lose “negotiate”? With what authority? With what Quids pro Quo?

I suppose if Candidate Trump negotiated with Russia to undermine the U.S. position using some billions of dollars worth of bribes as the lever to move Putin, that would violate the Logan Act, but the bribes themselves would be illegal. So, I don’t believe discussions violate anything.


32 posted on 12/01/2017 4:37:35 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (IT'S OKAY TO BE WHITE.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Flynn just admitted to lying to the FBI.

For some reason, I believe the media will view anything he says from here on out as gospel, for some reason.


33 posted on 12/01/2017 4:40:22 PM PST by lacrew
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To: Federalist Patriot

I believe that Flynn’s conversations were all AFTER the November election...in December. If I’m correct, that would make this “Fake News”.


34 posted on 12/01/2017 4:44:38 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Federalist Patriot

Fake and Phony. MSM are nothing but a bunch of blog pimps.


35 posted on 12/01/2017 4:45:31 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Fake news artist Brian Ross knows he has an appointment at the wood shed with the President’s coming Twitter storm.


36 posted on 12/01/2017 4:48:35 PM PST by iontheball
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To: iontheball

Trump trolled them again.


37 posted on 12/01/2017 4:56:36 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (BANNON YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Ross is the epitome of LSM A-hole. The original headline was not a mistake.


38 posted on 12/01/2017 5:00:17 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: griswold3; Uncle Miltie

Logan Act...totally bogus:

CNN’s take back in February:

“Here’s the rub. The 218-year-old Logan Act has almost no track record, and no one has ever been prosecuted under it.

Only once, in 1803, was someone even indicted: a Kentucky farmer who wrote an article advocating for a separate Western nation allied with France. But the Louisiana Purchase later that year made the matter obsolete, the Congressional Research Service reported....

...In addition, the law’s mention of a person acting “without authority of the United States” could be an escape hatch, Vladeck has written.

Flynn wasn’t simply a private citizen; he was an adviser to the President-elect and soon would be given diplomatic powers. Legally speaking, his role may have granted him the “authority” to talk sanctions with Kislyak, Vladeck’s interpretation suggests.”

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/michael-flynn-logan-act/

ABC’s take from teh same time:

” Even hypothetically, legal analyst Holloway said he “could not stand in court and make the argument that that is a private person” because Flynn was an official member of the Trump transition team and national security adviser appointee at the time of his conversations with Kislyak.

Professor Vladeck said, “It’s not clear to me that a member of the transition team like Gen. Flynn is even violating the Logan Act in so far it’s not clear that he’s acting ‘without the authority of the United States.’”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/explaining-logan-act-dems-mike-flynn-violated/story?id=45481930

“Although Steve has previously suggested that the Logan Act couldn’t be used to prosecute members of the presidential transition team (if it could be used at all, given that it’s been moribund for over 200 years and is, in any event, a content-based restriction on speech), an exchange over e-mail between us about Steve’s prior post led to this Q&A that more fully fleshes out those arguments”:

https://www.justsecurity.org/37763/qa-michael-flynn-prosecuted-logan-act/

Also see:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/logan-act-flynn.html


39 posted on 12/01/2017 5:05:28 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Today was a day trader’s dream come true. Sell that news make a profit and then ride the common sense as it kicked back in.


40 posted on 12/01/2017 5:12:03 PM PST by TBall
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