Posted on 02/21/2020 8:33:16 AM PST by Hojczyk
Former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland said Friday that the FBI -- under the purview of the Mueller investigation -- tried to set up her up in a "perjury trap."
Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with host Brian Kilmeade, McFarland -- who served under former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn -- explained that her life "went to hell" at the beginning of the Russia probe because investigators were convinced she was President Trump's to the Russians.
"The FBI showed up at my house unannounced. I was all by myself. They come in and I said, 'Do I need a lawyer for anything? I have never met with any Russians. I have never dealt with any Russians,'" she explained.
The agents said that while they couldn't tell her not to get a lawyer, they just wanted a "little bit of information" to help them with the investigation.
"So, I naively went along with it. The whole time they were setting me up for a perjury trap," she told Kilmeade. "Because Brian, they seized all of my files, my documents, text messages, cell phones from the period I was in government...They had control of them. They wouldn't let me have control of them."
However, the search turned out to be fruitless for all parties involved.
"They thought they could pressure me to say, 'Well, I lied in one of my early talks with you guys when I didn't have access to my information,'" she mused.
McFarland added that she was questioned about a 90-minute period spent in the president's Mar-a-Lago Club in which she didn't have any recorded correspondence or conversation in her phone records. That's when, McFarland said, they asked her whether that was the time she met with Trump to get marching orders.
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Hannity is covering his back side... so he can keep his job... he repeats it enough... to keep it covered.
She said this in an interview last week, too. I’m glad she’s speaking out so everyone knows this crap goes on by the people who’re supposed to be protecting us.
STALL... stall it out as long as you can... and maybe the people will give up.. and then we won’t have to arrest obama and his entire administration and the clintons...
It would have been poetic justice for what that fake McFarland did to John Spenser. (look it up) It helped her friend Hillary get elected to the senate.
Yeah, Roger was literally begging to testify to set the record straight against all the lies that were being said about him at the time. They got him on semantics at best.
I honestly have no sympathy for the guy. He should be given a medal for lying to Congress, but he should rot in prison for being such a publicity-seeking retardate.
This is one of the reasons you should NEVER talk with the FBI.
First mistake. Anything the police need to say can be said on the front porch through the screen door.
and I said, 'Do I need a lawyer for anything?
Second mistake. If you even think that could be a question the answer is YES!!! Notice how the FBI weaseled on it. They won't say no, but they will never say yes.
I worked for a company that was being investigated for federal contracting problems. The investigators hit a lot of employees one night. Next morning the company made it very clear that this was a work issue - all talks should occur during work hours. Also, the company would provide lawyers to anyone who desired them and you really shouldn't talk to any investigator without a lawyer (either yours or the company's) present. We weren't told we couldn't (that might be obstruction), just that it wouldn't be wise. Those at the center hired their own lawyers rather than use the company's ones which made management at HQ very unhappy.
Good advice, definitely be respectful, but if that fails just don’t talk.
Yep, they’re stalling while at the same time moving about 20 top stories (Alert! DING, DING, DING!) by the dopey public each day thereby creating a news cycle guaranteed to give a normal person ADD.
Rogers highest and best use is to act as a warning to the rest of us.
Land of the free, eh?
It’s been said before countless times but one should never, ever talk to the police or any investigative government agency. Either they arrest you or send you a list of questions they’d like you to answer.
“He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the president, he was prosecuted for covering up for the president,” said Judge Amy Berman Jackson about Stone."
Fox headline .. Trump dismisses reports of Russia meddling.. how about more than that... how about calling he media to task... show your evidence.... how about telling the reporters who are saying this over and over.. all day.. every day... how about giving them the treatment.... just belittle them over and over... lower their status... make fools of them... the whole GOP needs to step in and make noise...
be nice and you will lose...go after them!!!!
If you refuse to cooperate and/or insist on your lawyer being present, could you lose your security clearance? A refusal can be spun by Deep State to look like she’s got something to hide.
Everyone knows better now, but back then I can’t blame for refusing to believe the worst.
Stone was never in the administration in any form. He pushed himself as a surrogate. Stone is as Trump said, a “colorful” character. I do not agree with what was done to Stone and I am not a fan of Roger Stone. I think he loved to be the center of attention, interject himself into events, and frankly he loved to stir the pot - deliberately and provocatively.
The person MOST responsible for his conviction is Roger Stone. He relished the limelight and looking like he was some kind of insider with information that nobody else had. He did not help Trump during the campaign, he and others around him muddied the waters and I said way back then that Stone needed to stay out of it and I wished he would stay off of television as he came across as some kind of clinger who promoted himself.
With all that said, what was done to him does not represent justice. It was deliberate and underhanded. The entire investigation was a fraud, the issues with the jury foreperson and judge are troubling, and the sentence is ridiculous. It is infuriating that the big investigation without a proper predicate was treated far more seriously and severely than other investigations with legitimate probable cause of a crime.
Trump should pardon him, but I think he is correct in allowing the situation to play itself out.
Fox news is like the Republican party; there’s a few decent ones but most are trash. Yes, identify them, mock them and insist they produce evidence to support their phony ALERTS!!!
Do they even have editors at Fox News? tried to set up her up That is just one of the examples.
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