Posted on 05/13/2020 3:36:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - When Michael Flynn was forced from the White House, Vice President Mike Pence said he was disappointed the national security adviser had misled him about his talks with the Russian ambassador. President Donald Trump called the deception unacceptable.
Now Pence says he’d welcome Flynn back to the administration, calling him a “patriot,” as Trump pronounces him exonerated.
The dismissal rewrites the narrative of the case that Trump’s own Justice Department had advanced for the last three years in a way that former law enforcement officials say downplays the legitimate national security concerns they believe Flynn posed and the consequences of the lies he pleaded guilty to telling.
It’s been swept up in a broader push by Trump and his Republican allies to reframe the Russia investigation as a “deep state” plot to sabotage his administration, setting the stage for a fresh onslaught of election year attacks on past and present Democratic officials and law enforcement leaders, too.
“His goal is that by the end of this, you’re just not really sure what happened and at some gut level enough Americans say, ‘It’s kind of messy,’” said Princeton University presidential historian Julian Zelizer.
Trump has tried to rally his supporters around the claim, aiming to revive enthusiasm among voters disappointed by his handling of the pandemic. He went on a weekend tweetstorm and used the first 20 minutes of a recent Fox News interview to attack the Obama administration rather than offer updates on the pandemic.
But advisers believe painting the previous administration as corrupt can distract from a pandemic crisis that has crippled the economy and killed tens of thousands of people in the U.S. and can prove an effective line of attack against Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.
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So many lies in this AP trash sentence.
What the Obama goons in the FBI and DOJ did to General Flynn was never, ever "legitimate", he was never a threat to National Security, but Obama and his gang of criminals were. Flynn pled guilty because Mueller and Weissmann were going to railroad Flynn's son, and the General pled guilty to save him.
All those people and MANY MORE need to be in Prison!
Flynn’s Plea to a Lie was just crying “UNCLE” after they BANKRUPTED him, put him into MILLIONS of Dollars in DEBT and the future of his SON going thru the same thing!
The AP is a source of great evil. Just pure propaganda.
This ap story is partisan CRAP.
Worst in years.
Awful.
I suspect that the longer the Flynn case drags out, the more it will be in the news, making more and more voters disgusted with the people that are perpetuating it.
Consider this, Ann Archy.
The exculpatory evidence and dirt on the FBI, prosecutors, and original legal team was known and in the position of Trump and his boys (unnamed letter) all along.
They knew how this would end. They just had to get the information, that would not have otherwise been released, into the legal system. Flynn's prosecution provided that avenue. Once in play (legally) and declassified, it could be used in grand jury investigations and prosecutions against the actual perpetrators and many derps.
Is it possible that Trump sent Flynn and that he voluntarily plead guilty for this very purpose? Is it possible that Trump, Flynn, Rodgers, et al (unnamed letter), are that sophisticated of military planners?
Think about it.
‘aiming to revive enthusiasm among voters disappointed by his handling of the pandemic. “
F’n AP what a joke they are.
AP = Always Propaganda
Just saw KT McFarland on TV analogize the FBIs tactics in the Flynn case to those of Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels.
Undo Russian narrative? AP has declared itself Fake News.
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