This is akin to kicking General Grant out of the Union Army because he had a drinking problem. It will be hard to replace this man and his talent and patriotism.
Lt. General Joesph Kellog names as Acting National Security Advisor, per Twitter.
The coup is on, Flynn resigned.
Bannon, Kellyanne, and Miller next on the chopping block.
With Fake News-CNN breaking the story, I will not assume it’s the truth. I will need a credible source.
Flynn’s a democrat.
Flynn is a registered Democrat, having grown up in a “very strong Democratic family”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_T._Flynn
It’s sad but if he was vulnerable to being blackmailed by the Russians then it’s best he leave. If he had told the truth in the first place this would have blown over. As usual the cover-up was worse than the ‘crime’.
Anyone think this was a Pence operation to get Flynn out?
Wonder how many demo this will bite. We have had actors, Senate members and members of the house sticking their noses into international affairs as long as I can remember.
Here we go. Trumps support will plummet along with his political clout. Now those mushy middle voters will believe Trump stole the election with help from the Russians and want him impeached. Even worse I am going to really hear it from stupid Liberal family members.
Oh well. This is such a Godless nation we deserve the corrupt regimes of the Democrats and the GOPe and the economic pain that comes from it. God gave this nation a reprieve in November 2016 and we aren’t going to take advantage of it.
I’m not part of the hate Russia crowd and was he overthrown by insiders Corporatists Globalists who serve Saudi and or Chinese interests (they have the $$$$$) with Russia defined as an enemy.
Russia put a roadblock in the Saudi backed effort to overthrow Syria’s government so the Gulf Arab energy resources could be piped into Europe at the expense of Russia energy exports there.
His official replacement better have a clean past!
The guy in Trump’s admin who needed to go was Priebus, yet we seem to have the Democrat intelligence community pairing with the VP to instead take the skull of a non-GOPe guy and likely cementing Priebus in longer.
Meanwhile, Trump meets with the lefty Canadian PM about women business owners, with some sort of joint commission about women in business? With Ivanka in the middle of it all—posing at the resolute desk in the Oval Office as an example of a woman having a ‘seat at the table’? Yuck! Imagine if Obama had had his first meeting with the Canadian PM about a special commission on blacks in business, as a cause pushed by Michelle, with Michelle posing at the resolute desk to demonstrate giving blacks a “seat at the table”?
Why did he lie to Pence?
Damn shame.
Interesting take on using every means, including Iran, to quickly crush ISIS without US boots on ground. If this was going to be the policy, Flynn was on the wrong side.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-trump-can-defeat-isis/
Dennis Kusinich, just on with Maria Bartiromo, on Fox Business, warned that what is happening is very serious and it’s coming from the Intelligence community. He speculates that IC is trying to undermine and harm President Trump and the administration. Coup?
Was Flynn an Obama appointee? I don’t remember any confirmation hearings.
Ignore the old media and hire another marine general.
Already tired of losing, and this is a loss.
Flynn ostensibly resigned because he provided Vice President Mike Pence with “incomplete information” about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador, which turned out to include a discussion of recent sanctions, contrary to his earlier denials. Trust is crucial; the resignation was warranted.
That said, the sanctions were largely bogus, and were applied not just to punish Russia for spying on the U.S. (both countries clearly spy on each other), but to substantiate the Democratic Party’s sore-loser conspiracy theory that Russia was responsible for electing Donald Trump.
There is no concrete evidence to support that theory, and there is no evidence (yet) that Flynn did anything but discuss sanctions in the most general terms. He did not break the Logan Act, nor any other law, apparently.
Whether Flynn deliberately concealed the contents of his conversation from Vice President Pence, or merely forgot what had been said, he was “caught” because the Department of Justice had been eavesdropping on the conversation. And one of the officials responsible for ordering the eavesdropping was none other than Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who forced President Trump to fire her when she defied her duty to enforce his executive order on immigration, however, controversial.