'What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?'
The notes and other emails were provided to Flynn's lawyers under seal last week and released Wednesday night by court order, providing the most damning evidence to date of potential politicalization and misconduct inside the FBI during the Russia probe.
The notes show FBI officials discussed not providing Flynn a Miranda-like warning before his January 2017 interview — a practice normally followed in such interviews — so that he could be charged with a crime if he misled the agents, the officials said.
Assuming the Judge "still" refuses to toss the case, will he finally allow Flynn to recant his plea and force the DOJ make the decision to drop the charges or prosecute him in court? Because we all know how that would turn out.
The big question is very simple. Why did it take William Barr getting personally involved to get this information out in the light? It should have been obvious to everyone that this was not on the up and up.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump erupted at his top political advisers last week when they presented him with worrisome polling data that showed his support eroding in a series of battleground states as his response to the coronavirus comes under criticism.
As the virus takes its deadly toll and much of the nation's economy remains shuttered, new surveys by the Republican National Committee and Trump's campaign pointed to a harrowing picture for the president as he faces reelection.
While Trump saw some of the best approval ratings of his presidency during the early weeks of the crisis, aides highlighted the growing political cost of the crisis and the unforced errors by Trump in his freewheeling press briefings.
Trump reacted with defiance, incredulous that he could be losing to someone he viewed as a weak candidate.
“I am not f—-ing losing to Joe Biden,” he repeated in a series of heated conference calls with his top campaign officials, according to five people with knowledge of the conversations. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private discussions.
The message to the president was sobering: Trump was trailing the former Democratic vice president in many key battleground states, he was told, and would have lost the Electoral College if the election had been held earlier this month.
On the line from the White House, Trump snapped at the state of his polling during a series of calls with campaign manager Brad Parscale, who called in from Florida; RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, on the line from her home in Michigan; senior adviser Jared Kushner; and other aides.
Echoing a number of White House aides and outside advisers, the political team urged Trump to curtail his daily coronavirus briefings, arguing that the combative sessions were costing him in the polls, particularly among seniors. Trump initially pushed back, pointing to high television ratings. But, at least temporarily, he agreed to scale back the briefings after drawing sharp criticism for raising the idea that Americans might get virus protection by injecting disinfectants.
Trump aides encouraged the president to stay out of medical issues and direct his focus toward more familiar and politically important ground: the economy.
Even as Trump preaches optimism, the president has expressed frustration and even powerlessness as the dire economic statistics pile up. It's been a whiplash-inducing moment for the president, who just two months ago planned to run for reelection on the strength of an economy that was experiencing unprecedented employment levels. Now, as the records mount in the opposite direction, Trump is feeling the pressure.
“We built the greatest economy in the world,” Trump has said publicly. “I’ll do it a second time.”
Trump's political team warned that the president's path to reelection depends on how quickly he can bring about a recovery.
“I think you’ll see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal, and the hope is that by July the country’s really rocking again," Kushner told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning. But other aides, business leaders and economists predict a far longer road toward recovery.
Representatives for the RNC and the Trump campaign did not comment on the polling or last week's phone calls. In a tweet just after midnight Wednesday, Trump denied that he had recently shouted at his campaign manager and said that “he is doing a great job.”
According to people familiar with the incident, Trump vented much of his frustration at Parscale, who served as the bearer of bad news.
Trump has long distrusted negative poll numbers — telling aides for years that his gut was right about the 2016 race, when he insisted that he was ahead in the Midwest and Florida. At the same time, Parscale and other Trump aides are talking up the sophistication of their data and voter outreach capabilities this time.
The president and some aides have had simmering frustrations with Parscale for a while, believing the campaign manager — a close Kushner ally — has enriched himself from his association with Trump and sought personal publicity. Trump had previously been angered when Parscale was the subject of magazine profiles. This latest episode flared before the campaign manager was featured in a New York Times Magazine profile this week.
Aides have grown particularly worried about Michigan — which some advisers have all but written off -- as well as Florida, Wisconsin and Arizona.
Trump announced Wednesday that he will visit Arizona next week — his first trip outside Washington in a month — as he looks to declare that much of the nation is ready to begin reopening after the virus.
The president has mocked Biden, his presumptive general election rival, for being "stuck in his basement" in his Delaware home during the pandemic.
Trump said Wednesday that he hopes to soon visit Ohio, a battleground state that Trump carried handily in 2016 but that aides see as growing slightly competitive in recent weeks.
Aides acknowledged that the president's signature rallies would not be returning anytime soon. Some have privately offered doubts that he would be able to hold any in his familiar format of jam-packed arenas before Election Day, Nov. 3.
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Lemire reported from New York.
go back to bed, alky.
stories completely reliant upon anonymous sources have no currency around here.
Sorry Rog...
Nobody sane believes your nonsense!
over and over and over and over... these stories have been proven to be completely made up. I am curious as to what makes you want so badly to believe these things are true?
I am curious as to what makes you want so badly to believe these things are true?
well, there's this syndrome.
it has a name.
the alky has suffered from it since the bad orange man was inaugurated.
I've noticed the longer Roger's posts are the more desperate he is, as if length gives them any credibility.
The bigger the pile of shit just the bigger stink to the poster.
If this economy gets anywhere back to normal Trump will be fine.
And he knows it.
Keep your eye on the prize and that is the economy, stupid (not addressed to lo iq).
here's a link to the alky's wet dream fiction:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-erupts-campaign-team-poll-001032236.html
it was authored by a couple of MSDNC stooges.
Tracy Beanz
@tracybeanz
Statement to me from Mike Flynn Jr. “I’m reading these notes and my initial reaction is nothing. I knew my father was set up from Day 1. Today confirms it.”
EVERY honest American who followed this outside the mainstream media at all knew it.
FAKE NEWS is the ENEMY of the PEOPLE.
The entire Russian collusion hoax is imploding. Only question is how/if the mainstream media will report it. I'm reading a book written during WW2 about the first few years of the Nazi invasion of Holland (The Lion Rampant by Jong and Stoppelman). When they eliminated Dutch broadcasting companies they did it under the decree entitled "Measure for the Protection of the Dutch Population against Untrue Information"
Big Tech and the mainstream media is following in the same footsteps.
It concerns me that Mueller didn't call this out. I thought he was above reproach.
Boy, drudge has gotten as bad as CNN. You look down his top 20 or more headlines, not a single one is positive toward Trump. He used to publish both sides. Now its only one.
Sorry Rog...
Nobody sane believes your nonsense!
BWAAAAAAA!!!!! Lil Schitty handles trump news by sticking his head further up his stinky obese fat ass......funny especially with the guano you have been putting up lately....especially flynn being guilty by his own admission!!!!!!
Anonymous Myballs said...
It concerns me that Mueller didn't call this out. I thought he was above reproach.
ha.
mueller's a dirty cop. always has been.
innocent men have died in prison, and many remain to this day thanks to his corruption. he's the reason the feds had to settle a lawsuit with a guy wrongly accused in the anthrax crimes.
mueller's a scumbag, piece of shit, dirty cop. period.
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
#FLYNN docs just unsealed, including handwritten notes 1/24/2017 day of Flynn FBI interview. Transcript: “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Read transcript notes, copy original just filed.
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Pro Tip: Should you ever forget whether the point of the meeting is treason against the United States or just asking an innocent guy questions for no particular reason, don't write that down. Just try to remember it.
More even damning releases supposedly still to follow including "new" Page/Strzok test messages. How the hell can even MORE of them exist. And the FBI "found" over 6,000 MORE emails in the Flynn case that weren't turned over !!! WTF.BI
Even more
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Imagine having your life and reputation ruined by rogue US govt. officials. Then years later when the plot finally comes to light the first thing you do is post an American flag. This is the guy they wanted you to believe was a Russian asset.
Flynn's Tweet:https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1255645641105182722
Everybody in on this needs to face dire consequences. Including a corrupt media who knowingly perpetuated this fraud. At the very least they should unmask their lying sources (right Schiff et all ???)
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
@CNN doesn’t want to speak about their persecution of General Michael Flynn & why they got the story so wrong. They, along with others, should pay a big price for what they have purposely done to this man & his family. They won’t even cover the big breaking news about this scam!
Mueller did an outstanding job of missing the facts.
The brass at the FBI did follow Obimbo orders, Biden didn't know.
The FBI / Mike Flynn story is a legitimate bombshell. The story about Trump and his campaign manager? Not so much.
Guess which story the media is playing up and which ones it's ignoring?
He is proof why a President shouldn't be allowed full access to Twitter and other SMS without being checked and approved for accuracy in details, spelling and general word vomit. If he handled his companies like he's handling his Twitter account and press conferences I can see why he doesn't want his tax returns made public.
• 30 million unemployed
• 1 million coronavirus cases
• 60,000 dead in 5 weeks
And Trump is worried about a well-connected, well-off political crony who has already pleaded guilty to a federal crime?
Heh, yes his tweets are sometimes cringe worthy but without a doubt, Trump is the most transparent, candid president in the history of the United States.
Which pisses off the media because they lose the ability to reinterpret what Trump said.
And Trump is worried about a well-connected, well-off political crony who has already pleaded guilty to a federal crime?
Everybody should worry about the gross abuse of power and civil rights by a politicized FBI.
And if you weren't such a political hack you would be too.
ChuckGrassley
@ChuckGrassley
New DOJ/Flynn docs are stamped w SCO as in Special Counsels Office
Did Mueller have these docs? Why did his team sit on them? What else is Mueller team that cost taxpayers $30+ million hiding? The ppl deserve answers 2restore faith in federal law enforcement agencies
Blogger Roger Amick said...
He is proof why a President shouldn't be allowed full access to Twitter and other SMS without being checked and approved for accuracy in details, spelling and general word vomit.
oh, so we are supposed to restrict trump's first amendment rights to a format more your liking.
really alky?
go fuck yourself.
• 60,000 dead in 5 weeks
and the combined effort of little mussolini cuomo and comrade de blasio accounts for 23,546 deaths. and counting.
NYS nursing homes are fucking covid death traps alky. don't you wish you were in lockdown in one of those?
fort of little mussolini cuomo and comrade de blasio accounts for 23,546 deaths. and counting.
So says our neo nazi dumb fuck from NY......your only credibility is up your old white ass like trump!!!!!!! 60 k dead 30 million unemployed and negative GDP_ and the little daughter fucker declares victory with the awesome govmnt leadership.....the dumb fuck rat picks another pubic hair from his tooth.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
So says our neo nazi dumb fuck from NY
So says the CDC. You really ought to read a little Denny before you make an ass of yourself.
But then again we wouldn't have so much fun watching you make an ass of yourself.
Got AGW much?
There is but ONE Nation to blame.
China.
Never ever question the wannabes queen.
🤣Pelosi snaps at reporter over Biden allegation, doubles down on support: 'I don't need a lecture'🖕
So now according to Rog (who get's his talking points from the liberal media)...
As long as there is a medical crisis, the FBI is allowed to entrap innocent people with bogus investigations and nobody should pay attention to it>?
Bernard B. Kerik
@BernardKerik
Why did #FBI Director Christopher Wray, Special Counsel Andrew Weissman’s friend and former supervisor suppress the @GenFlynn notes? He concealed @FBI criminal conduct and should submit his resignation or be fired by President
@realDonaldTrump
The fact Sessions also continues to support Wray for me shows Wray must go.
He has taken no action and is under a cloud of suspicion.
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