Posted on 12/01/2017 9:58:29 PM PST by springwater13
Michael Flynn is prepared to testify that Donald Trump directed him to contact the Russians as president-elect, not as a candidate, ABC News reports, correcting their earlier report.
Why it matters: ABC called it a clarification, downplaying an epic mistake that sent markets tumbling and Twitter on fire with thousands of shares. Axios and others highlighted the ABC report in stories that were viewed by millions. (We regret highlighting a story that had one source making an astonishing allegation.) ABC's statement 35 words
Trump had denied having, or being aware of, any contact with the Russians during the campaign, which would have been highly unusual. Reaching out to foreign governments during transitions is more standard procedure.
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They only seem to make “mistakes” in one direction: against the President.
Funny, ABC never made this type of error when the Shuck ‘n Jive artist was in charge.
ABC sucks.
It seems we would have learned our lesson after all these years and after all these false declarations of "this is the end of Trump" that we've been hearing since June of 2015. But we never seem to learn, do we?
Many of us continue to fret over this purported Mueller "witch hunt" of Trump yet does Trump himself seem concerned? Not very. That's probably because Trump did nothing wrong and he knows it. Meanwhile, Trump is methodically implementing his MAGA agenda while the mainstream media chase after nonsensical things such as "unpresidential tweets", Melania's high heel hurricane shoes and of course this silly "Russian collusion" nonsense.
So far, everybody "ensnared" in Mueller's purported witch hunt do not have anything to do with Trump. Onetime Freeper hero and short-time campaign manager Paul Manafort had a lot of shady foreign dealings under the Obama Administration and with the Clintons. Nothing under Trump. This Gen. Michael Flynn who pled guilty to one count of lying to the FBI was given immunity for any crimes he might have committed under Obama. But not under Trump. Very interesting. Why would he agree to that? Perhaps because he knows he did not commit any crimes while in the Trump fold. But under Obama, well that's a story yet to be told.
Unlike many others here, I am going to wait upon events before casting judgement upon Gen. Mike Flynn. I feel this is going to turn out much differently than many are supposing when all is said and done.
Exactly!
"A clarification tonight on something one of Flynn's confidants told us and we reported earlier today," Ross said on the program. "He said the president had asked Flynn to contact Russia during the campaign. He's now clarifying that saying, according to Flynn, candidate Trump asked him during the campaign to find ways to repair relations with Russia and other world hot spots. And then after the election, the president-elect asked him to contact Russia on issues including working together to fight ISIS."
"Colluding" to improve relationships and defeat terrorism! Surely this is an impeachable offense!!!
ABC News knew exactly what they were doing. All to disrespect DT while at the same time not having to backtrack based on the tax reform story. This is a game they’ve been playing for years. Sometimes when you release a story is every bit as important as what’s in the story.
I don’t know about team Mueller. But definitely team ABC.
“A lie is half way around the world before the truth gets it’s boots on” I hope you understand what I mean.
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