Illuminaire wrote:I'm sort of with Nate on this one. I don't think it's all that unheard of for quiet backchannel communication to happen. Flynn talking to people isn't an issue to me.
Lying about it to his own boss, THAT is a problem. (And of course, if he was working for any end but the good of America, then that is a major problem too. I'm going to wait and see on that part of things. Too much hysteria in the news cycle, it usually takes a few weeks before the sober facts are available and the hyperbole is filtered out)
This is more of a black eye on Flynn than anyone else, but it does reflect poorly on Donald's hiring practices. That is one obvious, ongoing negative about the Trump whitehouse... everything is done quickly, but it's not always done well. I hope they learn from these early mistakes and take a more considered approach to future decisions.
It doesn't look good. From afar, it looks like Flynn was actively working against the Russian Sanctions that the Obama Administration had put forward against Russia. It may be why Russia didn't follow suit and respond with their own sanctions afterwards. It is illegal to work against what the current presidency so I have to disagree that it doesn't look good for Trump administration if he knew what Flynn was talking about.
But yeah Flynn looks pretty incompetent especially since it is well known that conversations are recorded by the intelligence community.
The timing of the firing of the acting attorney general also does not look good for the Trump. She had inadvertantly told Trump in a letter that Flynn had been compromised by the Russians a few days before she was let go. Ultimately, the press might have re-evaluate the reasons on why she was fired.
