Numbered days
Jennifer Rubin must have written this at top speed, because there are words missing. It’s about how dire this could be for Donnie from Queens.
The Post reports, “Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI. … Flynn’s admission … is an ominous sign for the White House, as court documents indicate Flynn is cooperating in the ongoing probe of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election.” ABC News reports, “Michael Flynn promised ‘full cooperation to the Mueller team’ and is prepared to testify that as a candidate, Donald Trump ‘directed him to make contact with the Russians.’ ” That could be direct testimony implicating the president of campaign collusion.
Flynn’s plea marks a dangerous turn. Flynn was a White House adviser, not a campaign aide. Moreover, there is no passing him off an errand boy or bit player. “Trump developed a close rapport with Flynn on the campaign trail, where the general delivered fiery denunciations of Hillary Clinton, including leading a ‘lock her up’ chant at the Republican National Convention, and he gave Trump much-needed national security credentials,” The Post reports. “Flynn, however, had a mixed reputation among other Trump aides, who thought he gave the president questionable information and questioned some of his business dealings.”
Fiery denunciations, was it, when he himself is as crooked as ZZZZZZZ.
And, of most concern to Trump, Flynn could provide evidence relating to interference with the Russia probe, including Trump’s efforts to get then-FBI Director James B. Comey to lay off Flynn. The ABC News report, if accurate, suggests it is the latter, with fatal consequences for the Trump presidency.
Trump’s defenders will argue that this still does not touch on the underlying issue of collusion with Russia. That’s true but misses the point. If there was collusion, Flynn almost certainly would have known about it. He was both Trump’s closet foreign policy adviser and a pro-Russia operator who traveled to Russia to give a lavishly compensated speech and appeared on RT, Russia’s propaganda network, which he asserted was no different than any American news outlet. (RT has since be required to register as a foreign agent.) Trump can claim all he wants that the Russia investigation is a hoax, but if Flynn provides direct evidence implicating Trump, the president’s days in office are numbered.
Fingers crossed.
Okay, so if Trump’s days are numbered, how does that work? Wouldn’t it still require either impeachment or the invocation of the 25th amendment? Either of those would seem to be pretty uncertain, since a lot of Republicans and Trump faithful would have to go along with it. Or can the FBI just march him out of the West Wing in handcuffs? If that happens I’ll buy an American flag and hang it on my house.
I’m assuming that a) he’s guilty as hell and b) that it doesn’t matter because nothing is gonna happen to him.
His days have the best numbers. So will, we hope, his prison uniform.
If only…
“Flynn, however, had a mixed reputation among other Trump aides, who thought he gave the president questionable information…”
As far as I can tell, all of Trump’s aides would have been giving Trump questionable information. They were/are moral bankrupts. After all, they’re working for TRUMP: that makes them all a bunch of fucking idiots.
It will not mean the FBI or whoever arresting him and taking him away.
The only thing it could mean is that the Republicans would feel so much pressure from voters that they would feel compelled to start impeachment proceedings. On this point I’m like Trapper John in that episode of M*A*S*H where everyone else believed the rumors that the war was finally over: call me when it’s a done deal.
Well, not just from voters, I think. There are pressures from a lot of directions. History; their reputations; the law. We know a number of them have complained of him behind closed doors. There could come a time when enough of them decide it’s just not worth being tarnished by him any further.
But yeah, not holding my breath.
And naturally they HAVE TO get their poison pill tax bill through first.
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