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03-10-2017, 06:30 AM
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Michael Flynn was a Foreign Agent
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was not aware that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had worked to further the interests of the government of Turkey before appointing him, the White House says.
The comments came two days after Flynn and his firm, Flynn Intel Group Inc., filed paperwork with the Justice Department formally identifying him as a foreign agent and acknowledging that his work for a company owned by a Turkish businessman could have aided Turkey’s government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...666_story.html
Flynn was paid $530,000 by Turkey from August to November while working in the Trump campaign. He then was appointed National Security Advisor with inadequate vetting. How can Trump & Co. complain about a FISA warrant (used to investigate foreign agents) when he has an admitted foreign agent on his campaign staff and later as NSA? Feckin' Keystone Cops.
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03-10-2017, 08:40 AM
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Didn't The Donald fire that apprentice?
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03-10-2017, 09:38 AM
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Didn't The Donald fire that apprentice?
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The issue was that he hired him, a foreign agent, to work on his campaign staff and then as his National Security Advisor. So much for "extreme vetting."
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03-10-2017, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by finnbow
The issue was that he hired him, a foreign agent, to work on his campaign staff and then as his National Security Advisor. So much for "extreme vetting."
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Sounds like the Senate didn't do its job. Are you saying that Trump should personally vet each critical appointee? Pretty sure that's for those at a lower pay grade. And the foreign agent was fired when found out.
The Donald's on a learning curve.
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03-10-2017, 10:06 AM
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Sounds like the Senate didn't do its job.
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The senate never does it's job.
In fact I would say the senate and congress are nothing but a social club for the well to do who don't have skills or are so socially unacceptable that they cannot work in the private sector.
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03-10-2017, 11:03 AM
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The Donald's on a learning curve.
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That bloated ego is ".......on a learning curve"? Since when do people like Trump shut up long enough to let anyone else tell them the right way to do something, let alone listen to anyone who's trying to tell them they're f**king up? Give me a break.
http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2016...001152527.html
He and his "great German blood" will keep trying to enforce his will until we are rid of him.
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03-10-2017, 11:57 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nailer
Sounds like the Senate didn't do its job. Are you saying that Trump should personally vet each critical appointee? Pretty sure that's for those at a lower pay grade. And the foreign agent was fired when found out.
The Donald's on a learning curve.
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The National Security Advisor does not require Senate confirmation. The White House (VP Pence) said yesterday that they just found out about him being a foreign agent for Turkey (i.e., that they didn't know it when they fired him).
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03-10-2017, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by finnbow
The National Security Advisor does not require Senate confirmation. The White House (VP Pence) said yesterday that they just found out about him being a foreign agent for Turkey (i.e., that they didn't know it when they fired him).
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More Trump administration alt news?
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03-15-2017, 03:40 PM
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Are you saying that Trump should personally vet each critical appointee?
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Um...of course he should? Are you saying that you don't think the President should personally vet his advisors??? Sure, he won't personally look into background checks and the like, but he should ask and determine critical questions like, say, if an advisor is working as a foreign agent.
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03-15-2017, 04:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nailer
Sounds like the Senate didn't do its job. Are you saying that Trump should personally vet each critical appointee? Pretty sure that's for those at a lower pay grade. And the foreign agent was fired when found out.
The Donald's on a learning curve.
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He wants "extreme vetting" for every refugee. Why not for his National Security Advisor?
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