Flynn cited a family emergency
âMy son just got subpoenaed!â
WTH is wrong with âsomeâ people in this country? You do NOT parade a potential âcolluderâ as a fking character reference. I donât care WHAT state youâre in.
So I guess lying to the FBI is now a badge of honor in some circles? Weâre falling farther down the rabbit hole with each unforgiving minuteâŚ
I suppose with people like Roy Moore, Blankenship, Gianforte, and Greitens as candidates or office holders, they need equally suitable people to endorse them.
âIn a video posted by Downingâs campaign, Flynn cited a family emergency for the cancellation of his scheduled Sunday appearance in Billings.â
âFortunately, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, honorary chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has agreed to step in as a last-minute replacement.â
White House officials said he misled them about his Russian contacts.
I remember that. Seems kind of quaint now.
âAll my money comes from countries that have their nuclear warheads pointed at the United States, Iâm basically a traitor and most definitely a liar, and Muellerâs gonna send me anâ junior to the federal pen.â So, ok, a family emergency
Why is it that when the media speaks of an official who speaks untruths, the verbs used are âmisledâ or âmisspokeâ or âmistakenly said?â On the other hand, when these same officials like Trump, Flynn, etc. speak of others, they always say he or she LIED and is a LIAR, etc., even when, in fact, the person so labeled is speaking the truth.
There is something grossly wrong with this.
You do NOT parade a potential âcolluderâ as a fking character reference.
Itâs not Flynnâs first campaign appearance since he plead out.
The facts about his contacts with the Russian ambassador and what he was doing for the Russians are not in dispute.
This, I suppose, says everything that needs to be said of the GOP electorate: either theyâre monumentally ignorant, hypocritical or they donât count support for selling your country among the offenses that compromise their support for a candidate.
I sense an opening market opportunity for Benedict Arnold posters and paraphernalia.
Unless Flynn is attending and/or headlining these fundraisers at Meullerâs request, Flynn is dancing on the thinnest of egg shells.
I was hoping he cancelled because he wanted to go to Colorado and check out his soon-to-be new digs at ADX Florence.
Former Trump Administration officials are having a very difficult time landing jobs in the private sector ( e.g. Sean Spicer) as is appropriate. So that leaves them with no fallback option other than a life of crime or the characterless confines of the Republican PartyâŚbut again, I repeat myself.
Republican philosophy in a nutshell: We have a dream where our children will be judged not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin.
Only Guns Only Party circles
So Flynn walked down to the interstate and stuck his thumb out for a ride, and no one picked him up?
Shouldnât a prohibition against public political activity have been one of the conditions of his guilty plea?
What sort of candidate would want Flynn as a reference?
Edited addition.
One with his own criminal issues.
Flynnâs candidate - and FWIW, the reason he is a resident of California is so he can get a tax break on real estate - heâs a crook in two states! http://mtpr.org/post/troy-downings-license-violation-trial-date-delayed
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Fer example,
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Arnold gave meaning to the rallying cry, âExtremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.â
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From an 1890 dictionary misspeak is âto speak otherwise than according to oneâs intentionâ. Apparently Ron Ziegler stretched the meaning to cover Nixonâs lies and it was downhill for language from then.
I got that from, sorry, a Safire column from 2008. It will use up one of your quota of NYT clicks, but itâs kind of interesting. Also, ten years ago he happened to discuss the very Trumpian use of âfranklyâ.