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The Manufacturing of Controversy  General Michael Flynn Edition .

The Conservative Treehouse ^ | Feb 13, 2017 | Sundance

Posted on by HarleyLady27

Anyone who has followed the deep weed construct of current U.S. politics against the backdrop of DCs UniParty fear of President Trump can fully grasp the desperation of the professional political class to undermine the expressed purposes and intents of Trump to drain the proverbial swamp in Washington DC.



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To: HarleyLady27; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; DoughtyOne; ...

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by 2 posted onby HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)

To: HarleyLady27

Gen. Flynn is a guy who won’t want us defending Muslim states just because they have oil. He doesn’t want our boys going to do nation building, or regime change. Because of this and his history we back him up. I don’t belive the lies comming out of the intel community. Obviously Gen. Flynn has enemies in the intel community.

they tipped their hand by denying Flynn his #2 guy. I like a guy who isn’t a PC general. Look at Colin Powell. So, I tweeted my support today to POTUS Trump, VP Pence, Prebius , Banon, and Kellyanne. I believe we can keep Dems from picking off Trump people one by one by having Gen. Flynn’s Six. Least we can do for a hero, patriot and real American.



To: Zenjitsuman

Amen!!! This is how we do it, bring the ‘cockroaches’ into the sunlight and they die...



by 4 posted onby HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)

To: HarleyLady27

I think Trump is surprised at just how powerful a group he’s up against. We know the democrats and the gopE. But who’s telling them what to do?



by 5 posted onby Terry Mross (Now I understand how dictators gain power. Eventually people want some relief from the idiots.)

To: Zenjitsuman

Amen

Attack, attack, attack



by 6 posted onby bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)

To: HarleyLady27

This is a fake controversy of the first order. I can’t believe the hysterics in the press, even on Fox. I can’t listen to it. For them to be that hysterical over a nothing of a story, tells me this is orchestrated. Stand by General Flynn, at all costs. If he goes down, they’ll pick off the rest one by one. I have no doubt they will attempt to remove Trump within two years. We have to stand together. I have no problem criticizing Trump when he needs it, and he probably will. But so far he has been right on target, and that is where the flack is the heaviest.



To: marron

I DONT BELIEVE a DAMNED person in this government EXCEPT Trump and HIS TEAM!!! CIA and FBI need to be CLEANED OUT IMMEDIATELY!!! These TWO departments have tentacles that WILL DESTROY Trump they BELIEVE they have MORE POWER than Trump he NEEDS to FIX THIS ASAP!!!!



To: HarleyLady27

This article misses the point. This is the current word on the street in DC. Gen. Flynn, it seems, lied to Mike Pence about whether or not he discussed “sanctions” with the Russian ambassador. But when there arose a rumor of an FBI transcript of his conversation(s) with the Russian ambassador, he came clean with Pence and admitted that the subject of “sanctions” was discussed. Ergo, the issue is not the discussion of sanctions but the issue of lying...and trust. The President must trust Flynn with his life. He must trust Flynn with the country’s citizens lives. And so must Mattis, Tillerson, Kelly, et al. Bottom line: I doubt it will happen like this but imagine President Trump, VP Pence, Mattis, Tillerson, Kelly, and others in a room with Gen Flynn in the hot seat. If Michael Flynn can justify his “misstatement” in a way that satisfies all primary security directors and the President (i.e. something akin to justifiable plausible deniability for the Veep and POTUS)...he will remain in place. If he fails...he will resign.



To: RoosterRedux

That would be my guess as well Trump can tighten them up Flynn can go later if he must Unless I misread Pence Politically trump needs his umbilical to pence to be secured Strategically the team of Bannon Miller and Conway look good enough Preibus is apparently liaison to old guard It’s a task Flynn brought this on himself The media will make every day a scandal so he needs to go back to hitting them daily with agenda offensive Make them react



by 10 posted onby wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)

To: wardaddy

When Pence accepted Flynn's apology, he was merely deferring to the President. Trump and Pence are tight. Trump and Bannon/Priebus/Conway/Spicer, et al are tight. The issue here is "why did Flynn lie." There are valid reasons for lying in matters of national security. We will see if this one, if it is one, passes muster.



To: RoosterRedux

There apparently exists a transcript so anyone in the inner circle can read it and decide for themselves if he lied or not. I assume its something like, the Russians ask about sanctions, he says we’ll talk about that after January 20... but we do want good relations between our two countries. So, did they discuss sanctions? No. Did the subject come up? Yes, but he kicked the rock down the road... Should be good enough, except in this hyper-partisan environment that becomes a lie and he is labeled a liar. Doesn’t help that Pence took this and ran with it. Flynn ought to have simply replied, I am the president’s advisor. My discussions with him and on his behalf behind closed doors are between myself and him. Now, they should find out who leaked the contents of the phone-call to the press, and they should be relieved of their duties. Fired, transferred to Lower Slobovia, whatever. Finally, if they do decide he wasn’t honest, in a way that causes them to lose confidence in his advice, they should back him up on this one and then quietly “promote” him up and out after it blows over. They must not allow the press to believe they got his scalp.



To: marron

Don’t be so hasty, Laura Ingraham has seen the transcript and he was talking about USA and Russia relationship improving in general, not sanctions Obama had put in place. Remember Gen. Flynn was a private citizen at the time and and was only saying what Trump said, he wants to work with Putin if he can on terrorism. Remember, don’t believe everything Gen. Flynn’s enemies say. These are the same people getting WMD’s wrong, Libya wrong

Syria Wrong Ukraine wrong, and F-ing Israel. Flynn is critical of their history and they don’t want him around, because mostly he is NOT NOT NOT a NeoCON. No Nation building no wars that don’t matter to USA security, our wealth and wellbeing. I like Flynn and until I see the facts he has my trust, and even if he said something maybe it had Trump’s blessing, don’t forget Trump went everywhere on the long Campaign with Gen. Flynn at his side, who did you think educated Trump about the world situation on all those days all those long flights?



To: HarleyLady27

Coup! @Reince trying to get General Flynn removed. Let @realDonaldTrump know who you support Per Cernovich Flynn is in intelligence. The GOPe is trying to get him out before Trump finds out all the chit theyve been up to. Priebus/Ryan/GOPe. Then, they marginalize and remove Trump for some reason and go with GOPence.



by 14 posted onby combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)

To: Zenjitsuman

Flynn has enemies in the intel community. And we should know him by his enemies. It shows he is a worthy man. Flynn tried to reorganize DIA so that it served the needs of the men and women fighting on the front lines in the ME. The IC wasn't having that and Obama fired him. This is the IC that predicted the fall of the Shah, the collapse of the Soviet Union and discovered nuclear weapons in Iraq. [big sarcasm here - got everything wrong, in fact]



To: Zenjitsuman

I think that’s also what I’m saying. I don’t believe he lied. I believe this is a hit job, and we have to stand with Flynn. I also like Flynn. I see every other big name Repub pining for a war with Russia while ignoring what I consider the real threats. Flynn and Trump have pushed back hard against that. I believe this is step one of their slow-motion coup to take Trump down. We have to stand firm.



To: marron

I cant believe the hysterics in the press, even on Fox. Even here. We have the entire fakenews industry shucking and jiving and folks are actually giving it credence. Steady folks. Remember who the real enemy is. Finding folks who have reached the upper levels of the national security business under Bush and Obama who are not on the grift is tough. There are exactly two I trust in this regard - Mattis and Flynn. Everyone else has his hand in the defense $$ cookie jar.



To: marron; RoosterRedux; wardaddy

” So, did they discuss sanctions? No. Did the subject come up? Yes, “ Without seeing the transcript that would be my guess as well. Someone with an agenda will spin it so that the mere mention of sanctions by the Russian amounts to Flynn betraying the United States. People need to recognize the game that Democrat leadership is playing, trying to thwart as many of Trump’s nominees as possible. This isn’t a hunt for truth, this isn’t on honest appraisal of the merits of each nominee. This is weapon’s grade character assassination by a criminal cartel masquerading as a political party. The Democrats got Newt Gingrich to fall for one of their nastier bits of character assassination when he became House Speaker, look up Christina Jeffrey sometime. I hope that Team Trump is savvier than Gingrich.



To: AndyJackson

Good post. I don’t watch Fox anymore, but I overheard them going into hysterics in the other room, had to go see what it was about, and was surprised it was Fox. When all the press, including Fox go into hysterics on cue in unison (I keep using that word, because it fits) it tells me this is orchestrated. This is only going to get louder as the days roll on. I used to say, the alphabets give us the Left view of what the Left wants to talk about, and Fox gives us the Right view of what the Left wants to talk about... either way, the Left decides what we are going to talk about. These days, some days, its only Left and Left. We are witnessing a slow-motion coup d’état. Trump will win because he loves a good fight.



To: marron

on cue in unison It was an amazing full court press.



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