Donald Trump's Defense Of Michael Flynn Sure Didn't Age Well

[h=1]Donald Trump's Defense Of Michael Flynn Sure Didn't Age Well[/h] Sam Levine,HuffPost 2 hours 28 minutes ago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-apos-defense-michael-154702797.html

After Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, it’s worth noting how strongly President Donald Trump has defended his one-time top aide.
Flynn is charged with making false statements to the FBI about his contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition. He is expected to plead guilty Friday.
Flynn was fired from the White House in February after reports revealed he lied about the content of his discussions with Kislyak in December. Flynn initially said the two didn’t discuss new U.S. sanctions against Russia at the time, but they did.

Trump has sought to distance himself from Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos, campaign aides Mueller charged last month. But Flynn and Trump were indisputably close, and Flynn served as a top campaign aide before getting a top White House job.
In May, a White House official told The Daily Beast Trump felt bad about firing Flynn and believed Flynn could come back to work in the White House once the investigation wrapped up.
Despite Flynn’s dismissal, Trump has defended him, calling Mueller’s investigation into allegations of collusion between the U.S. and Russia a “witch hunt.”
Amid questions about Flynn’s ties to Russia, Trump also sought to tie him to the Obama administration.
During the presidential campaign, Trump also praised Flynn’s book and retweeted someone who said Flynn would be a good candidate for secretary of defense.
James Comey, the former FBI director whom Trump fired in May, said Trump asked him to end an investigation into Flynn. Mueller is reportedly probing Comey’s firing as part of his investigation into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

• This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

[h=1]'I Don't Think He Did Anything Wrong.' 5 Times President Trump Defended Michael Flyn(EXCELLENT judge of character, lol!)[/h] Tessa Berenson,Time 12 hours ago

"If anything, he did something right" Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI, but it’s already been 10 months since he was fired from his position as President Trump’s national security adviser.
At the time, Trump asked for Flynn’s resignation amid claims that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of his correspondence with a Russian official. Then-spokesman Sean Spicer said the decision to fire Flynn was “not based on a legal issue, but based on a trust issue.”
On Friday, White House lawyer Ty Cobb said that the conduct that got Flynn fired last winter was similar to the criminal charge he pleaded guilty to that day.
“The false statements involved mirror the false statements to White House officials which resulted in his resignation in February of this year,” Cobb said in a statement.
But between Flynn’s firing and his appearance in court, Trump has praised his former adviser. Here are five ways Trump has defended Flynn since he was fired.
[h=2]‘I don’t think he did anything wrong’[/h] Trump defended Flynn in February 2017, saying, “I don’t think he did anything wrong. If anything, he did something right… He was just doing his job. The thing is, he didn’t tell our Vice President properly and then he said he didn’t remember.”
[h=2]‘He has been treated very, very unfairly’[/h] [h=2]‘This is a witch hunt’[/h] In March, Trump tweeted that “Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!”
[h=2]He worked for Obama too[/h] In May, Trump sounded a slightly more defensive note, pointing out that Flynn also worked for President Obama. “General Flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama Administration – but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that,” Trump tweeted.
(Flynn served as the director of intelligence for the Joint Special Operations Command and the director of intelligence for U.S. Central Command, and in 2012, President Barack Obama nominated him to be the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He retired from that role in 2014.)
[h=2]He’s ‘a very good person’[/h] “This man [Flynn] has served for many years, he’s a general,” Trump said told NBC News in May. “He’s a — in my opinion — a very good person.”

Regular chocolate milk back on school menus as Obama-era rules are eased





Chocolate milk with 1 percent fat will soon be back on public school lunch menus as the Trump administration eases nutritional standards put in place under President Obama.


The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday published a new interim rule, due to take effect on July 1 after a period of public comment, which relaxes sodium limits and whole-grain requirements on school lunches and also allows flavored milk with 1 percent back into school cafeterias nationwide.


Currently, public schools are allowed to serve only flavored milk that is nonfat or unflavored milk that is low-fat or nonfat.


"This is not reducing the nutritional standards whatsoever," Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters when he unveiled the proposed changes in May. "I wouldn't be as big as I am today without flavored milk."


“Schools need flexibility in menu planning so they can serve nutritious and appealing meals,” Perdue said in a statement Thursday. “Schools want to offer food that students actually want to eat. It doesn’t do any good to serve nutritious meals if they wind up in the trash can."


The rule is meant to provide “regulatory flexibility” for the National School Lunch Program, which is a federally assisted meal program that provides nutritionally balanced, reduced-cost or free lunches to children.


Critics say the new rules will roll back the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, who worked to tighten nutritional standards for the program as part of her campaign against obesity.
ABC News' Mariam Khan and Whitney Lloyd contributed to this report.

And where are the Dems gonna go with this?

Ahh,,,like nowhere

as usual.

Want something real to chew on?, look into all the “mysterious “ deaths surrounding the Clintons. That’ll keep one busy for a long long time..

Go back to oooo with that shit

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours agoMore



I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!

time is never good to libtards, and I love letting time do it's thing

What didnt age well??

This thread!!!

lmao!!

ANUTTA WINNER!!!!

NFLTrends said:

What didnt age well??

This thread!!!

lmao!!

ANUTTA WINNER!!!!

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Obama told Dump not to hire that scum, and was defied. Remind me again, how'd that work out? Uh, he's a convicted fellow, you brain dead runt, and if you think he avoided 10 years of hard time simply because Mueller liked Flynn's intense squint, you've even dumber than I thought, which is saying something. Why is Twittler so concerned about Cohen flipping(I suppose you and A Sap Sucker are confident Cohen won't be indicted, either, lol) if he, Dump, is innocent, cocksucker?

NFLTrends said:

What didnt age well??

This thread!!!

lmao!!

ANUTTA WINNER!!!!

Click to expand...

Nothing to say to post # 12, Lard Ass? Why is Twittler so concerned about Cohen flipping(I suppose you and A Sap Sucker are confident Cohen won't be indicted, either, lol) if he, Dump, is innocent, cocksucker? And, why if it's a witch hunt and no collusion, is Dump so resistant to meeting Mueller to "clear the air," scumbag? What about Dump saying why take the 5th if you're innocent?