Discussion: Yates', McGahn's Accounts Of Meetings On Flynn Differ: What That Tells Us

Every single one of these disgusting criminals needs to pay for their actions - especially scumbag lawyers who should be disbarred then thrown in prison like this tool McGhan.

Sharpen the fucking pitchforks.

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I agree. McGahn has a stench that reeks to high heaven. He’s supposed to be White House counsel, to protect the office of the President, not act as the pResident’s personal attorney.

Furthermore, if it takes you two weeks to get your story straight in a cherry-picked memo, you may not be a very good attorney.

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Somewhere - maybe in Russia - a novelist is taking all this down for a novel in the tradition of John LeCarre. A sure fire best-seller!

Yates’, McGahn’s Accounts Of Meetings On Flynn Differ: What That Tells Us


It tells us to carefully consider which party is neutral and which has an axe to grind.

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[quote=“serendpitoussomnambulist, post:3, topic:73120, full:true”]
We need more traitors, liars, skanks, sexual predators, money launderers, racists, religious bigots and whores in the White House not less.[/quote]

C’mon, be fair - the building is only so big…

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Scum floats. There’s plenty of room for more.

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The Trump team is in disarray because it’s really tough to get all the liars on the same page, especially when cross-examining them. McGahn’s version will fall apart.

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Sneed’s Reporting on this story is first rate work😇

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These lies are so common (they must give training classes in Trump’s WH) that the title of the article was misleading: What it should say is that Yates and Trump’s lawyers disagree about what was said, since we don’t have McGahn’s memo available to compare with either of the former.

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Don’t get ahead of the facts, here. Whenever someone tells you that any Republican is “selectively quoting” from a document that hasn’t been made public, a presumption of bad faith and active misrepresentation arises. As far as I can recall, that presumption has always been confirmed once the document is released.

And I don’t think the mere fact that Mueller actually has the document in question would have acted as the slightest check on Suckalov and Dowd’s willingness to do that.

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I’ll bet we’d be appalled at the amount of money we’re paying for gov’t employees’ time recording every conversation they have these days.

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Yanny.

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One has to match up the Yates-McGahn discussions with Trump’s actions. He invited Comey for the dinner on the Friday of the week that Flynn was interviewed by the FBI (1/27/17). Flynn was interviewed on 1/24/17. Yates met McGahn on 1/26/17 and again on 1/27/17.

McGahn informed Trump that Flynn had been interviewed by the FBI. He likely also hinted that it was about the meeting with Kislyak.

McGahn might not have known about what happened at Mar a Lago from principals, but he knew what David Ignatius had written for WAPO on 1/15/17. So did Trump. Trump also knew that what Ignatius wrote was essentially correct because he was at Mar a Lago on 12/29/16 when Flynn called over there to discuss how to respond to Kislyak’s concerns regarding the Obama sanctions.

There’s little question in my mind that KT McFarland and others consulted with Trump at Mar a Lago (b/c he was right f***ing there in the same f***ing room!) and Trump conveyed through McFarland or others how to respond.

Therefore, when Trump asked Comey for ‘loyalty’, there’s no doubt in my mind that Trump had the Flynn investigation in mind because he knew the FBI was snooping about on the Russia matter and Flynn’s improper interactions with Russians.

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And which of these two has a more personal interest in how this meeting is viewed, I wonder? Not to mention which one is not a toady to a corrupt, criminal administration.

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So McGahn’s a liar, just like everyone else in this administration. Non-News.

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Tells us McGahn is another Trump liar.

This article really makes one wonder just how many accounts differ like this in the SC’s investigation when it comes to after-the-fact interviews/testimony vs. real-time documents/communications. Just think about everyone who has been interviewed or subpoenaed by the SC and how many documents we know they have and add to that all the poor judgement, penchant for lying, and ‘every man for themselves’ attitude of the players involved … there must literally be thousands of these sorts of easily-refutable discrepancies and contradictions! I mean, McGahn is supposed to be one of the savvier players in this fiasco, but this memo sounds like a pretty bad alibi …

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Well, he is a Trump operative. That said, all we have is Trump’s lawyer’s version of what McGahn put in his memo, not the actual (unedited) memo itself. And, we know that Trump’s folks routinely lie and distort to shape their narrative.

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Wouldn’t Yates and the DOJ lawyer have written their own Memos of Conversation? And likely more contemporaneously than McGahn.

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McGahn’s memo says that “Yates claimed that Flynn’s statements to the FBI were similar to those she understood he had made to Spicer and the Vice President.”

Isn’t this actually totally damning to Trump? I mean, if the statements to the FBI were “similar to” the statements to the VP, and the statements to the VP were lies, that means Flynn lied to the FBI, and Trump knew that on 1/26.

The “can’t have obstructed an investigation because he knew there wasn’t one” line the defense team is trying to put out there is such transparent bullshit it makes me hopping mad. If he believed there was no investigation, there’d be nothing to “see your way to letting him go”.

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