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Michael Flynn Offers to Testify on Potential Trump Campaign Ties to Russia in Exchange for Immunity

posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 31 2017, @01:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the trump-card dept.

takyon writes:

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has reportedly offered to testify about President Trump's campaign and Russia:

President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has reportedly told the FBI that he is willing to testify about the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, in exchange for immunity from prosecution, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Flynn resigned in February, after it was reported that he misled White House staff on his interactions with Russia and had discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak ahead of President Trump's inauguration. The Journal reported, citing officials familiar with the matter, that the FBI and the House and Senate Intelligence committees that are investigating Russia's attempts to interfere in the U.S. election have not taken his lawyers up on the offer.

Flynn's lawyer said in a statement that "General Flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit."

[...] In September, criticizing Hillary Clinton over former aides being given immunity deals as part of an investigation into her private email server, Flynn said, "When you're given immunity that means you've probably committed a crime."

Also at the LA Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, NYT, and Politico.

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  • (Score: 2) by n1 on Friday March 31 2017, @04:49PM (1 child)

    by n1 (993) on Friday March 31 2017, @04:49PM (#487165) Journal

    It looks like Joe Biden has been infiltrated by the Russians too...

    "What happened was that this was the first campaign that I can recall where my party did not talk about what it always stood for -- and that was how to maintain a burgeoning middle class," Biden said during an appearance at the University of Pennsylvania. "You didn't hear a single solitary sentence in the last campaign about that guy working on the assembly line making $60,000 bucks a year and a wife making $32,000 as a hostess in restaurant."

    He added: "And they are making $90,000 and they have two kids and they can't make it and they are scared, they are frightened."

    Clinton did attempt to speak to working class voters on the campaign trail, including through multiple bus trips through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. But the overarching message of her campaign, especially at the end, was more often anti-Donald Trump than policy messaging toward these voters.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/index.html [cnn.com]

    People had a choice between more of the same and something audibly different... Two very unpopular candidates faced off in an election where the end result was not going to please the majority of people.

    Russia almost certainly did interfere with the election, spreading propaganda, the same way that various US and other international government institutions spread propaganda covertly and overtly to influence public opinion around the world. There were vast PR machines at work for either side.... One of the biggest successes was having places like CNN and other 'MSM' continually give a platform to Trump every time he said anything, which would resonate with an notable percentage of society who has felt alienated by the last 8 years of federal government rhetoric.

    Foreign policy, which is my primary concern being not in the US... I see basically no difference between Trump so far and what I would have expected from Clinton... In actions taken not words uttered.

    We continue on the same path, but with suitable branding that placates a section of the political spectrum that has felt unrepresented for the majority of the last decade.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @06:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @06:19PM (#487214)

    You've got some weird logic going on there.

    Nobody loses a campaign because they did everything wrong.
    Nor does anyone win a campaign because they did everything right.

    Whatever mistakes clinton made, russia compounded her problems.