UPDATE: National Security Adviser Mike Flynn has resigned, according to reports.

The mainstream media, let by serial liars at the Washington Post and New York Times, are trying to pull off a coup of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. A conversation took place after Donald Trump’s election and before the inauguration between would-be NSC head Flynn and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador. Flynn told Mike Pence and other transition officials there was no discussion of sanctions. Whether there was or not, leakers told the New York Times no classified information was discussed.

The fallout of the Flynn-Kislyak call runs along the usual partisan lines. Democrats and their cheerleaders in the press want Flynn’s scalp. There really is no evidence to nail him of real impropriety.

Still, current and former administration officials familiar with the call said the transcript was ambiguous enough that Mr. Trump could justify both firing or retaining Mr. Flynn.

The default setting in times of ambiguousness for both Democrats and the mainstream media is to escalate conflict be employing their fake news reporting. Mediaite proclaimed that old Sally Yates didn’t trust Flynn. Remember her? Her tenure as assistant Attorney General with the Trump administration ended when she grandstanded about not enforcing Trump’s travel halt EO, then trolled Trump on Twitter when it was struck down by a judge.

So Michael Flynn’s biggest detractor is an Obama DOJ official who had it in for the Trump administration anyway. Sound credible?

Flynn apologized to Pence if he misled him. Lacking any evidence of wrongdoing in the transcript of that call, that’s end of it.

But The New York Times points to the efficacy of its own fake news among some low level white House aides as reason to dump him.

Mr. Trump, however, has become increasingly concerned about the continued fallout over Mr. Flynn’s behavior, according to people familiar with his thinking, and has told aides that the media storm around Mr. Flynn will damage the president’s image on national security issues.

If the media thinks storms of their own making are sufficient to make Trump cut and run, they have been in denial for the past year and a half and have learned nothing. Priebus, Conway, and Spicer have all been alternately headed to the gallows for the same reason. None of them have done anything to merit an exit. Again, the media conjures enough fake news to get one or two insiders rattled, then shouts “chaos in the White House” from the tallest mountaintops and points to its own smears as justification for firings.

Flynn’s actions are, as even the Times admits, ambiguous. That’s not grounds for terminating him. So they are creating a tiff among Flynn and Pence, among others. This is where fake news, unsourced smears and innuendo are gold. They turn to ladling fake news about chaos and tumult in the Trump administration. They want a scalp. Then they’ll want more scalps. Trump should not give them any.

Think David Petraeus would have any smoother sailing?

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