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Whistleblower: Flynn told ex-partner Russia sanctions would be ripped up
NBC "News" ^ | December 6, 2017 | by MIKE MEMOLI

Posted on 12/06/2017 10:49:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Donald Trump was just 11 minutes into his presidency when his choice for national security adviser, Michael Flynn, texted a former business partner to say an ambitious U.S. collaboration with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East was "good to go," according to a new whistleblower account.

As Trump delivered his inaugural address, says the unnamed whistleblower, Flynn directed Alex Copson, managing director of ACU Strategic Partners, to inform their business partners "to put things in place."

The whistleblower also says that Flynn assured Copson that U.S. sanctions on Russia that could block the nuclear project would be "ripped up" once Trump was inside the White House.

The account from the anonymous whistleblower is detailed in a new letter from the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to his Republican counterpart asking that the panel subpoena Flynn, Copson, the White House and others involved in the alleged plan.

"Our Committee has credible allegations that President Trump's National Security Advisor sought to manipulate the course of international nuclear policy for the financial gain of his former business partners," Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: alexcopson; copson; democrats; flynn; russia; russiasanctions
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Flynn went into business for himself in an exemplification of the recklessness and duplicity that got him fired by President Trump.


21 posted on 12/06/2017 11:01:24 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought flynn was fired before Trump was sworn in?


22 posted on 12/06/2017 11:01:51 AM PST by JoSixChip (Repeal and replace the gopE.)
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To: Da Coyote
And the problem with that was?

Because RUSSIA! BWAAhAAAHAAHAAHAA!!!

23 posted on 12/06/2017 11:02:45 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: mojito

Elijah, your black bimbo Obama was no longer president.

President Trump was president.

So collusion/meddling with the election was impossible.

Elijah, have you ever told the truth since you were elected by your mob?


24 posted on 12/06/2017 11:03:13 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep the illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wonder who put him up to it? Cummings is too dim to string a coherent sentence together on his own.


25 posted on 12/06/2017 11:04:30 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sure Mueller knew this. After all the U.S. government was spying on an opposition party’s candidate and president elect.

So what? Can anyone, to include the spy agencies, confirm a quid pro quo?

Elijah Cummings needs to sit down and stfu.

5.56mm


26 posted on 12/06/2017 11:05:14 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Architect of Avalon

But don’t we WANT reliable, stable electricity in the ME? Isn’t that an assist in moving from the 7th century?


27 posted on 12/06/2017 11:06:31 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: AndyTheBear
So Trump is guilty of having his own policy while President?

GASP! How DARE he? Doesn't he understand that word handed down by Our Dear Leader Obama can never be changed?

Who the Hell does Trump think he is, the duly elected President of a free nation?

28 posted on 12/06/2017 11:06:37 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Back off and wait for the whole story before piling on based on the words of that liar Cummings.


29 posted on 12/06/2017 11:09:07 AM PST by binreadin
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To: txhurl

Nuclear plants in the Middle East are a bad idea.


30 posted on 12/06/2017 11:09:50 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Even if true, this doesn’t mean anything about Trump colluding with Russia Russia Russia.


31 posted on 12/06/2017 11:10:33 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: trebb

Remember they had been working for a while by then during a, wait for it, Transition. Probably had a list of hundreds of decisions ready to go on day 1 like a good planning team should. Not to mention I’m sure they were all ticked off by Obama trying to throw a stink bomb into foreign policy in the 11th Hour. No way he wouldn’t have known by then what Trump was going to do. Nothing to see here. Elijah get back to keeping your constituents on the plantation.


32 posted on 12/06/2017 11:11:51 AM PST by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: Da Coyote

The problem with that was he wasnt John Podesta


33 posted on 12/06/2017 11:12:36 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And to think I felt sorry for Flynn when he was tossed aside.

He sounds like a loose cannon.


34 posted on 12/06/2017 11:13:15 AM PST by Mr. K (There is no consequence of repealing Obamacare that is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t see a problem with that...certainly NOT Russian collusion. Just letting Russia know what was coming, so they didn’t do anything rash - like take Obama’s bait to start an incident.

Anyway, TOO LATE! Trump just recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel...MUCH BIGGER STORY. They should have sat on the Flynn crap another day.


35 posted on 12/06/2017 11:13:20 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Thank God H.R. McMaster came in time. If anything, Obama admin went too light on Putin’s kleptocracy and Bush screwed it up first with his pathetic “I looked Putin in the eye and saw his soul” comment. Then there’s the sellout of Uranium under Secretary Clinton.

Trusting Russia as it stands could have been Trump’s foreign policy undoing.


36 posted on 12/06/2017 11:13:47 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Elijah Cummings: The Puss filled Spittle Bucket that used the IRS and multiple other agencies to harass Conservative organizations that Applied for Tax Exempt status.

THAT Cummings?


37 posted on 12/06/2017 11:14:37 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-09/obama-gifts-iran-massive-uranium-shipment-russia-sufficient-more-10-nuclear-bombs


38 posted on 12/06/2017 11:15:18 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Architect of Avalon

Why? You don’t want meltdowns irradiating the crude to a pretty color?


39 posted on 12/06/2017 11:17:20 AM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: AndyTheBear

Trump is only guilty of hiring loose cannon Flakey Flynn. He’s got more skeletons in his closet than Franken.


40 posted on 12/06/2017 11:18:52 AM PST by lodi90
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