Flynn About To Be Ejected You're Fired!!

aught
Aught, not to be confused with the helping verb "ought," is a word you'll hear most often in the U.K., where, in a very confusing manner, it can mean either everything or — wait for it — nothing at all.

 

Anmd just when was Hillary's email debunked? Solyndra? Fast and Furious? IRS?
In fact, just when ws anything debunked from Obama and his staff?

 

Good riddance. Trump needs people around him who will at least try to bring the light of truth and reality to the table to counter his ignorant, delusional worldview. Flynn doesn't qualify. "Flynn and the Dangerous Iran Obsession"

 

Trump knew about this for weeks!

Donald Trump Had ‘No Problem’ With Michael Flynn Talking To The Russians
But he shouldn’t have lied about it.
02/14/2017 02:25 pm ET
Amanda Terkel Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington PostSam Stein Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post

Flynn’s talk with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, came a day before President Barack Obama’s administration announced sanctions on the Russian government after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that top officials interfered in the 2016 elections to help elect Trump. Flynn and other Trump administration officials have consistently denied that such a conversation ever took place. But transcripts from a wiretap of his call proved that to be untrue.

Experts have raised the possibility that Flynn may have violated the obscure Logan Act, which bars private citizens from interfering in foreign relations. And on Tuesday, Democrats and Republicans on the Hill began questioning whether anyone else, including Trump, knew what Flynn was doing.

Spicer denied that Trump ever asked Flynn to discuss the sanctions and said the president personally asked for his national security adviser’s resignation. But he insisted Trump had “no problem” with Flynn talking to Russian officials.

“I can’t state it clearly enough: There was nothing in what Gen. Flynn did in terms of conducting himself that was an issue,” Spicer said, adding that the White House counsel agreed with this assessment.

Instead, what bothered the president, according to Spicer, was that Flynn told Vice President Mike Pence that he never discussed sanctions ― and Pence subsequently went on television and said so, repeating Flynn’s lie.

The Washington Post reported that the Department of Justice first informed the administration last month that it believed Flynn had misled the administration when he said he had not discussed sanctions during the late December call. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates also said she believed Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail from the Russians because of the information he was hiding. Trump later fired Yates because she refused to defend his ban on refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries.

Spicer continued to say no conversations with Russian officials took place during the campaign ― despite reports that members of Trump’s team did so ― and wouldn’t say whether the White House would declassify the transcripts of Flynn’s calls about the sanctions.

As to whether other administration officials have talked about sanctions relief with Russia, Spicer said that “as far as we are aware, that was an isolated incident.

 

The sad fact is that the steady drumbeat of phony scandals brought up by Republicans are simply to erode the public's trust and lead to greater cynicism. YOU show me the investigations that led to any convictions not just run of the mill GOP accusations of scandalous behaviors.

 

When you show me how Flynn was convicted!

BTW, htat is the biggest scandal of them all. The DOJ is so politicalized that is would not investigate anything liberal even if they had 1000 witnesses to a bank robbery and film of the complete crime.

 

It's the cover up, It's always the cover up.

 

You may as well get used to it, trump is going down too, comrades.

 

Yep! Obama did that well. I wonder if Trump/Sessions will have enough gumption to uncover the democrats rats nests.

 

You make me laugh, you fucking little lying worm.

 

This has to be a record implosion. It's been like 25 days and this administration is in chaos as we knew it would be. Look how angry you made Coitus. Poor little cup cake.

 

Mike Flynn might be done – but Trump's nightmare has just begun
This resignation and scandal is not a surprise. After all, we have a president who is too careless to handle a national security incident in a confidential manner

Richard Wolffe
Tuesday 14 February 2017 00.44 ESTLast modified on Tuesday 14 February 2017 12.07 EST

Cast your mind back to four months ago, when Donald Trump was just a long-shot candidate with a hot-headed adviser by the name of Michael Flynn.

It was the homestretch of the presidential election and national security wasn’t some side issue, mentioned in passing. Trump promised he would be a tough national security president with the toughest national security team.

In fact, one of his favorite arguments was that Hillary Clinton couldn’t be trusted with the country’s national security because, he claimed, she couldn’t be trusted with her private email server.

It sounded ridiculous at the time. But after a month of this gonzo president, our memories are already fading. Propaganda will do that to you, as George Orwell warned us all in 1984. Sometimes two and two are four. Sometimes they are five.

Still, it’s true that the Trump campaign seized on the preposterous FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails to issue this press release: “Clinton’s Careless Use of a Secret Server Put National Security At Risk.”
Less than a week later, at their second presidential debate, Trump took the attack one step further, threatening to jail Clinton if he ever took power: “She didn’t know the word – the letter C on a document. Right? She didn’t even know what that word – what that letter meant.”

Let’s just pretend that Trump knew that C means confidential, not classified, as he was suggesting. Let’s even play along with the notion that Clinton’s server was a security risk to the country.

Now: what do Michael Flynn and Mar-a-Lago mean for national security?

To the fee-paying members of Trump’s Florida club, it means greater access to watch the president and Japanese prime minister reacting to the news of a North Korean missile launch in real time: huddling over documents and making phone calls on cellphones in public.

Or as one guest, Richard DeAgazio, put it on Facebook: “HOLY MOLY!!! It was fascinating to watch the flurry of activity at dinner when the news came that North Korea had launched a missile in the direction of Japan. The Prime Minister Abe of Japan huddles with his staff and the President is on the phone with Washington DC…Wow…the center of the action!!!”
Never mind classified information. Here is a president who is so careless that he can’t handle a national security incident in a confidential manner.

This kind of spectacle does wonders for the fees at Mar-a-Lago, where initiation has just doubled from $100,000 to $200,000 since its owner became president. But it does little for the national security of the country or its allies.

In case you think this is just one small lapse over dinner, Mr DeAgazio also posted to Facebook photos of the military aide carrying the nuclear codes that are frighteningly close to Trump’s trigger-happy mouth.

These are just minor details in the life of a commander-in-chief whose national security adviser was himself a national security risk.

Michael Flynn was so careless about his cellphone conversations, and so mistaken about his foreign policy priorities, that he called the Russian ambassador to the US before taking office.

Clearly clueless about how such conversations are transcribed by all parties, he talked about Barack Obama’s sanctions against Russia for interfering with the election that ended with Trump in the White House.

Then he denied talking about those sanctions at all, allegedly misleading the vice-president, Mike Pence, who in turn misled the American people on national television about the same call.

Based on those reports that he misled the vice-president, Flynn could have been compromised by Russian blackmail. But then again, the Russians might already have enough ammunition against him if he accepted payments from the Kremlin when he traveled to Moscow in 2015.

Thank goodness for the independence and counter-intelligence activities of the justice department, who allegedly warned the White House that Flynn was a possible blackmail target several weeks ago.

Why didn’t Trump do to Flynn what he has done to so many reality TV contestants in his only real preparation for his current job? Why didn’t he just fire him instead of allowing him to quit?

After all, that is exactly what he did to the woman who warned him that Flynn was compromised. Acting attorney general Sally Yates was removed from her job for defending the constitution by refusing to uphold the travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries that remains blocked by several federal courts.

We can’t be sure what’s going on underneath Trump’s coiffured combover. Unless he’s watching cable news and simultaneously tweeting about his thoughts in real time.

Instead we have to rely on his public comments about Vladimir Putin’s Russia and his own United States. Comments like the ones he made barely a week ago, when Bill O’Reilly of Fox News dared to suggest that Putin was a killer. “We’ve got a lot of killers,” said Trump. “What, do you think our country’s so innocent?”

Trump is correct: his version of America is not so innocent. It’s the kind of place where a candidate can accuse his opponent of running a foundation that is “a criminal enterprise” for accepting money from foreign governments. Then, once that candidate becomes president, he can allow foreign governments to give his businesses money in Washington DC and Mar-a-Lago.

Perhaps Trump’s real problem with the Clinton Foundation wasn’t about Hillary’s character. It was just professional jealousy.

The only things protecting Trump from impeachment for his egregious behaviour are his poll numbers and the false sense of security they give to Republicans in Congress.

Sadly for Trump, those numbers are tumbling faster than the ratings of Celebrity Apprentice. In just three weeks, Trump has lost 5 points in his Gallup approval polls to hit 40%.

It took Richard Nixon four years to reach this low point, just a year before he quit the presidency. At this rate, Trump will reach Nixon’s all-time low of 24% approval before the end of April.

We have barely begun to scrape the surface of Trump’s fatal compromises with Russia. It was only last week that US officials say they corroborated some of the communications in the famous British dossier detailing those compromising situations.

Trump can pretend all he likes. He can bluster his way through TV interviews and at the presidential podium about everything from the tiny crowds at his inauguration to supposed illegal voting by non-citizens.

But sooner or later, the presidency – and the constitution it is supposed to defend – catches up with you. A commander-in-chief can’t compromise his own nation’s security and expect to keep his job.

Flynn’s short White House career may be over. But Trump’s nightmare-a-lago has only just begun.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-nightmare-begun-mar-a-lago?CMP=share_btn_fb

 

It's the temps in Okla-fucking-homa. They've had high temps lately, in addition to all the earthquakes, and skippy is feeling the heat.

Don't even bother asking him about Global Warming, that just might kill him.


...hey skippy, how's the weather down there in not-a-Global-Warming?

 

Well, Dippy... it's 40 degrees... not very warm. It dipped lower than that yesterday and it's going to be warmer the next few days until more Arctic air arrives. So, what's your point?

 

Good point John!

 

Disingenuous.

scotty's earthquake parlor

 

How's Global Warming working out for you, parrot?