Discussion: Spicer: Trump Wasn’t Told At The Time About Flynn’s Sanctions Talk With Russia

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Call it a hunch on the train to CrazyTown, but I’m reluctant to believe this.

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This reeks as much as driving past a stock yard. As Grandma used to say, he’s full of manure!

I can see how they’re parsing this. He wasn’t “told” because it was written, but it violated the 9 bullet point style guide and was therefore ignored.

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So in alternative-land, AKA Washington DC, if Spiceboy says Drumpf didn’t know, then Drumpf DID know.

Got it?

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Something tells me that is a lie, and if that is indeed a lie I don’t think it will hold up very long.

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That’s exactly the point. Spicer has zero credibility. People ask him questions in order to find out what lie he will tell on the subject.

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I sense a Spicer firing coming followed by a mysteriously long period of no media access as his replacement is barely searched for.

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> Trump Wasn’t Told At The Time About Flynn’s Sanctions Talk With Russia

Why Not???!!!

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Eighteen days after the White House learned Flynn had misled them, Flynn resigned on Feb. 13.

At which point, the 18-day old “trust issue” required Flynn’s sudden resignation.

Newspaper reports that appeared hours before the resignation had no bearing on the decision.

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Call it a hunch, but I think Oh Donnie Dearest Leader just put in a rush order on his new dacha on the Black Sea.

He might need it in a hurry, since I think Russia doesn’t have an extradition agreement with the USA.

I just hope we’d at least get Air Force One back…

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**Spicer’s timeline doesn’t make any sense**
If Spicer in particular or the Trump administration in general had a staggering reputation for honesty, I guess maybe this would be believable.

But it would still be incredibly odd. Flynn’s resignation letter came out at around 11 pm on Monday, well after business hours. The administration accepted his resignation without having a permanent replacement in line for him.

These things happen. But they happen when there’s an emergency. When something new happens that changes the calculus of key people and causes them to do something in a hurry. What happened, clearly, was the Washington Post story. It pushed Flynn’s standing in the administration from viable to nonviable. And it did so quickly enough that the administration didn’t have time to figure out exactly why it was cutting Flynn loose.

After all, if the issue is that lying to Mike Pence and then putting Pence out to mislead people rendered Flynn untrustworthy, then it seems like Flynn should have been cut loose a long time ago. But if the issue is that the president didn’t find out about the Justice Department’s report until the Post published its story, then it seems like McGahn should be cut loose too.

If the issue is simply that Flynn became a political embarrassment, then the story should be that Flynn voluntarily resigned simply to avoid becoming a distraction. That’s what Conway said on the Today show Tuesday morning. The fact that Spicer and Conway aren’t even on the same page about whether Trump asked Flynn to resign or whether Flynn offered to resign simply underscores that the resignation was a rush job. It was a sudden decision in response to a sudden change of circumstances, not a gradual erosion of trust.

It’s time for a real investigation
But what change of circumstance?
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The Keystone Kops couldn’t trip over themselves like the Trumpsters can. Sad!

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Journalism 101 alert: The first paragraph of this article states that Trump didn’t know as though it were fact, with no attribution. We don’t know that Trump wasn’t aware–that’s just what we’re being told at this point. Given everything coming out of this administration, that’s reason enough to believe that he did, in fact, know.

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Well that was fast.

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Bullshit…

Complete unadulterated bullshit…

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Yet on the 14th, Trump told the WSJ that he’s be open to lifting the sanctions

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“…he is not back-briefed on every conversation that his national security team has,” Not even the single most important one with obviously major potential consequences?

At least Pence knew the one most important thing and thought eh, no big deal. Donnie won’t care. Just Russia plus lying. Not important like Ivanka’s merch sales and hotel occupancy rates he can pretend to not even know about…

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And we were expecting…?

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BTW, somebody should point out to R’s and their supporters that this is what a real scandal looks like…

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Do you think any of these fuckers can spell perjury?

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