Locknuts said:
CosmicSex said:
It started off like that but as some people have mentioned, Trump sabatoged himself by firing Comey, the same person who was investigating Flynn who had already willfully lied to the FBI. THis created an obstruction of Justice charge forthcoming against Trump. Especially when Flynn was obviously guilty and the claims are that he already talked to the administration about that they knew he had lied.
The short version goes like this:
Flynn, is working for government interests abroad including Russia and the Ukraine. The FBI asks him if he had contacts with Russian during the campaign. He lies. Now they want to know what he was talking about when he lied. They start to investigate. Trump pulls Comey (former FBI director) aside and tells he to let Flynn go. He doesn't. Trump fires him (obstruction of Justice). The special investigation finds that Flynn had infact broke the law and charges him and his son with possible 25 year sentences. Flynn, pleads guilty, and is now working with the FBI. You see, he did speak with Russians during/after the election and made a deal with Russians to postpone retaliation for Obama's post election sanctions on Russia before he was even allowed to be acting as a US agent when another president still serving. He lied about ever talking to them. If was later revealed that a high ranking official knew about the meetings with Russia but also lied.
These individuals include Jared Kushiner, Donald Junior, the former RCN chairmen and possibly more. And they all lied to the FBI and Trump knew it when he committed suicide by trying to stop the FBI by firing Comey. It was about collusion but later became about straight obstruction of Justice. Three other member of his campaign have already be charged with other crimes including money laundering, and conspiracy against the US.
So Trump took a bad situation and made it worse by attacking the FBI. He broke the law and he will probably be charged.
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But didn't Trump fire Flynn for lying to Pence about the same thing? So this guy lied to everybody?
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Yates warned the Trump team not to hire him before they did. They told the Trump team he had inconsistencies in his FARA filing and that he was under investigation. They did it anyway. Thats why Trump fired Comey when the FBI refused to stop looking into FLynn. The fact that he was guilty and Trump tried to stop the investigation makes this obstruction of Justice. They Obama Administration went out of their way to warn the Trump team but they tried to circumvent the DOJ. They only fired Flynn when the Washington Post revealed that he was under investigation. Something they already knew.
For clarity, Flynn was a USA operative that somehow got pulled in by the Russians. Yates and her team tried to warn Trump that he had been compromised. Normally, if someone tells you that you wouldn't hire them and you wouldn't try to stop the federal government from tracking him down. This implicates that the team itself was also working with Russia or that they were all compromised.
Trump could have avoided this in two ways:
One he could have never tried to make him the National Security Advisor.
Two he could have not fired the FBI director for trying to get to the bottom of it.
Flynn was also under investigation because the Ukraine, under Russia influence was trying to get someone they US was protecting extradited back to Ukraine. Trying to do this, especially when there is another President overseeing internal affairs is very troublesome. Flynn could have been in jail for decades but instead he gave something to Muller that we don't know yet. The understanding is that Flynn implicated everyone for something else involving Russia. That is the story so far.
