Flynn Was An Undocumented Foreign Agent During Campaign

Flynn earned $530K for lobbying while advising Trump campaign

By Mark Moore
March 9, 2017
The New York Post

Michael Flynn, who was fired as national security adviser, retroactively registered as a foreign agent after he was paid $530,000 for lobbying work during the presidential campaign that may have benefited the Turkish government, according to a report Thursday.

The former Army general filed paperwork on Tuesday with the Department of Justice revealing he worked for a Turkish company from August to November while he was an adviser to Donald Trump, the Associated Press reported.

According to the filing documents, the work “could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey.”

A Turkish businessman, Ekim Alptekin, whose company hired Flynn’s firm, told the wire service that the amended filings were made in response to “political pressure” by the DOJ.

Alptekin also said he’s demanding a partial refund of the $530,000 because he wasn’t satisfied with the company’s work, which involved getting information about cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania and was accused of organizing a failed coup in July against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Alptekin has ties to Erdogan, according to the filings.

Flynn stepped down as President Trump’s national security adviser Feb. 13 after reports revealed he misled White House officials about his contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential campaign.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump wasn’t aware Flynn had been working as a foreign agent when he appointed him to the national security post.

 

So flynn registers as a foreign agent, after the fact. He was a foreign agent while campaigning for trump and possibly as a member of trump's transition team. He was a foreign agent before being our National Security Advisor, but he didn't even admit to being one until now.

So what kind of vetting does trump have for the positions he fills? Does he ask: "Do you like me?", and if they say "yes" they get a position?

What are trump's requirements, anyway? It seems as though the only thing you need to be is against the United States. Almost without exception, the department heads he's picked have previously stated that they want to get rid of the departments they now head. As for National Security, it appears to be that the one requirement necessary is that you had worked, or are working for, other countries.

And republicans don't give a damn. That's why they need to be removed from office, they are anti-U.S.

 

I smell Russia from my country.

 

Russian intel officer flew in for Republican Convention to oversee Donald Trump’s platform change

By Bill Palmer | March 9, 2017
Palmer Report

Yesterday we brought you yet another name that now must be added to the list of alleged Trump-Russia conspirators: Konstantin Kilimnik. Politico has exposed that Kilimnik had flown in for the Republican National Convention and then bragged about his role in getting the GOP party platform changed in Russia’s favor. But now Rachel Maddow has pieced together that Kilimnik was a Russian intel officer.

Maddow made the connection during her Thursday evening MSNBC program, and oddly enough, she did so by connecting Politico’s latest reporting with an older Politico report on Kilimnik. In a separate development this week, two former Donald Trump campaign aides, Carter Page and J.D. Gordon, are now both asserting that it was Donald Trump himself who personally pushed them to make the GOP platform change.

This all adds up to a newly startling big picture: Donald Trump personally spearheaded the Republican Party platform change to a pro-Russian stance during the Republican Convention, even as three of his campaign advisers were meeting with the Russian Ambassador during the convention, and a Russian intel officer from the Putin-controlled GRU flew in to the convention to personally oversee the entire chain of events.

This now raises so many vital questions that it’s not even clear which should be asked first: Just how important was this GOP platform change to Vladimir Putin that he had two of his top people on the ground in Cleveland to make sure it happened? How inept was the Trump campaign that they needed this much direct adult supervision from the Russians just to change one line of text?

And perhaps most importantly, how can Donald Trump claim not to have known his advisers were all conspiring with Russia, when the conspiracy – including a Russian intel officer mysteriously showing up in Cleveland to work with his team at the convention – was playing out so blatantly in front of him? Trump’s narrow window for plausible deniability about the Russian conspiracy continues to close by the day.