Two more down. "Lock her up" (at the convention), Flynn, is dogged by "Lock him up" calls. The 33y military experienced Flynn made a decision to lie. He must have felt lying was potentially less damaging than telling the truth. What was the intelligent intelligence man hiding? Must have been to cover up the fact that others in the transition team knew he was having these, hmm, conversations with the Russians. Why had the "famously disloyal" Trump been so loyal to Flynn? Why did Trump ask Comey to protect Flynn? Because Trump knew that Flynn knew that...? Yeah.
And Sessions. Between Jan when Yates warned the WH about Flynn and May when Comey was fired, Trump called the Directors of Nat. Intelligence, the CIA and the NSA. Schiff says it's hard to believe Trump didn't ask Sessions (whom he was much closer to) to try to 'handle' this Russian investigation hassle too.
From "stashed December 2, 2017:" .. there are a few, two of them here
Top Trump transition official in private email: Russia 'has just thrown' the election to Trump KT McFarland, a top official on President Donald Trump's transition team, said in an email last December that they should reassure Russia, which she said had just "thrown the U.S.A. election" to Trump. The email, obtained by The New York Times, sheds new light on McFarland's role in coordinating the transition team's attempts to convince Russia not to retaliate against the US after President Barack Obama announced new sanctions and the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats last year. http://www.businessinsider.com/emails-kt-mcfarland-russia-thrown-election-to-trump-flynn-2017-12
Asawin Suebsaeng White House Reporter Updated Apr. 13, 2017 3:02PM ET / Published Sep. 16, 2016 1:15PM ET
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During a Friday morning event at his new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump finally admitted that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Still—while trying to sweep his reputation for racist birtherism under the rug—Trump was introduced at the event by a man who himself has a history of birtherism.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney was one of the military veterans who spoke at Trump’s DC hotel on Friday. As flagged by .. https://tinyurl.com/umyly5e .. Talking Points Memo, McInerney wrote an affidavit in 2010 challenging President Obama’s authority, due to “widespread and legitimate concerns” regarding his origin of birth.
“I cannot overstate how imperative it is to train such personnel to have confidence in the unified chain of command,” McInerney wrote. “Today, because of the widespread and legitimate concerns that the President is constitutionally ineligible to hold office, I fear what would happen should such a crisis occur today.”
“[Obama] is the one single person in the Chain of Command that the Constitution demands proof of natural born citizenship,” he continued, bizarrely. “This determination is fundamental to our Republic, where civilian control over the military is the rule. According to our Constitution, the Commander in Chief must now, in the face of serious — and widely held — concerns that he is ineligible, either voluntarily establish his eligibility by authorizing release of his birth records or this court must authorize their discovery. The invasion of his privacy in these records is utterly trivial compared to the issues at stake here. Our military MUST have confidence their Commander in Chief lawfully holds this office and absent which confidence grievous consequences may ensue.”
(Spoiler: Obama was born in America. This has been a known fact for many years.)
McInerney (who has accused Obama of turning America into a “socialistic, communistic society .. https://tinyurl.com/r3us7vw ,” and has served as a Fox News analyst) used to be the number-three commander of the Air Force. In the early Bush era, the Pentagon had deployed McInerney to help publicly sell its case on the Iraq War.
“I feel I have an obligation to the American people to be a part of the discourse and discuss these important national security issues because they are complex, especially on radical Islam. As a nation we have not had it. We have a president that has suppressed it,” McInerney told The Daily Beast earlier this month .. https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/06/the-disgraced-and-little-known-generals-backing-donald-trump.html , regarding his decision to back Trump. “I have an obligation because I swore an oath to the Constitution to uphold and defend the nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding McInerney’s past birther views and his selection as a speaker at today’s ostensibly anti-birtherism event.
"Trump Is Cracking Up By Michelle Goldberg [ https://www.nytimes.com/column/michelle-goldberg ] Paul Joseph Watson is an editor and staff writer for Infowars, the website published by archconspiracist Alex Jones. Stories on the site claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax and the “deep state” orchestrated August’s racist mayhem in Charlottesville, Va. On Wednesday, when Donald Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos from the British fascist organization Britain First, Watson thought Trump had gone too far. He tweeted: “Yeah, someone might want to tell whoever is running Trump’s Twitter account this morning that retweeting Britain First is not great optics.” By the end of the day, Trump had been condemned by Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, to which he responded by going after a different Theresa May on Twitter, dragging an obscure woman who at the time had six followers into the limelight. In another tweet, he insinuated that the TV host Joe Scarborough killed an intern in 2001, when he was a congressman.This came after news reports informed us that Trump is still a birther and that he no longer admits that the voice on the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape is his own. He seems to be cracking up. There is a debate over whether Trump is unaware of reality or merely indifferent to it. He might be delusional, or he might simply be asserting the power to blithely override truth, which is the ultimate privilege of a despot. But reports from the administration all suggest an increasingly unhinged and chaotic president. Trump’s aides are trying to spin his behavior, which they clearly expect to get worse, as a sign of heightened confidence. “Officials tell us Trump seems more self-assured, more prone to confidently indulging wild conspiracies and fantasies, more quick-triggered to fight than he was during the Wild West of the first 100 days in office,” Mike Allen reports on Axios. This should be seen as an emergency situation. But now that Republicans are about to get their tax cuts, they appear to have decided that it doesn’t matter whether the president is sane. “One senator who listened as the president revived his doubts about Mr. Obama’s birth certificate chuckled on Tuesday as he recalled the conversation,” Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin reported in The New York Times this week. In Politico, the conservative Rich Lowry made the argument that beneath the tempestuous surface, the Trump presidency is going relatively well, installing right-wing judges and rolling back regulations instituted by Barack Obama. On CNN, Senator Lindsey Graham chided the press for treating Trump like “some kind of kook not fit to be president,” which is some serious gaslighting from a man who previously called Trump “crazy,” a “kook” and “unfit for office.” The message here is clear: Republicans aren’t going to defy their mad king over anything as mushy and amorphous as democratic norms, rationality or national honor. Indeed, whether Trump is mentally ill or simply unbound, his provocations can serve a purpose for the Republican Party, numbing the country to a tide of less flamboyant outrages. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, for example, appears to have flat-out lied when he said that his agency’s comprehensive analysis shows the Republican tax bill paying for itself through economic growth; according to The Times, no such analysis exists. This should be a scandal, but when an administration lies all the time, it makes a lie like this less shocking. Less than a month ago Thomas Wright, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, warned that it was a mistake to infer that what we’ve seen so far of the Trump administration will be “as bad as it gets.” As time goes on, he wrote, “Trump will find people who will empower him, instead of trying to contain him. Some of these will be junior officials who gain experience. Others may be opportunists who see a chance to gain high office by pledging to be more of a loyalist than the current cabinet.” One such figure, Wright wrote, might be Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, who has previously said that cabinet members who won’t unreservedly enact the president’s vision should resign. On Thursday, The Times reported that Cotton, who like the president is a defender of waterboarding, could be on his way to head the C.I.A. He would replace Mike Pompeo, who is himself expected to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. These moves would put the country closer to war with Iran, a course Cotton almost appears to welcome. In an October speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, he said: “If we are forced to take action, the United States has the ability to totally destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. And if they choose to rebuild it, we could destroy it again, until they get the picture.” Meanwhile, Trump has put us on a track toward armed conflict with North Korea; on Thursday he resumed tweeting insults about that country’s thin-skinned leader, writing, “The Chinese Envoy, who just returned from North Korea, seems to have had no impact on Little Rocket Man.” If you think 2017 was bad, imagine an America without allies fighting another two-front war, this one involving nuclear weapons, under the leadership of the most hated president in modern history, while a torture apologist runs the C.I.A. The world right now is a powder keg. Trump, an untethered maniac, sits atop it, flicking a lighter that Republicans in Congress could take away, but won’t. If everything goes up in flames, we can’t say we weren’t warned. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/opinion/trump-is-cracking-up.html .. more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d92ERxJBfFldgLM_e6fX8LrnDk84M?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en"
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