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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:58 AM Feb 2017

Contradicting White House, Ryan Claims Trump Asked For Flynn's Resignation

Source: Talking Points Memo


By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 14, 2017, 10:50 AM EDT

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Tuesday that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was asked to resign from his position by the President, contradicting comments from White House adviser Kellyanne Conway earlier Tuesday morning.

At a press briefing with Republican leadership on Tuesday, Ryan was asked about Flynn’s resignation. The retired general tendered his resignation in a letter on Monday night.

“Let me take a step back for a second. National security is perhaps the most important function or responsibility a president has, and I think the President made the right decision to ask for his resignation,” he said. “You cannot have a national security adviser misleading the Vice President and others.”

“So I think the President was right to ask for his resignation, and I believe it was the right thing to do,” he said again.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ryan-says-trump-asked-flynn-to-resign

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rzemanfl

(29,540 posts)
1. The trouble with lying is keeping the stories straight. The GOP is too stupid
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 12:00 PM
Feb 2017

to know this? They need some commissars brought in from their mother country.

riversedge

(69,722 posts)
4. Flynn was on the trail from the beginning day after day. Very loyal to Trump. I wonder if
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 12:15 PM
Feb 2017

Trump did fire him.

Mc Mike

(9,107 posts)
6. Agreed. Thanks, catsu.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 12:27 PM
Feb 2017

dRUmpf has an explosive temper and an extremely short fuse. He's completely culpable for Russian election manipulation that helped him 'win'. And his management style is 'the buck stops with the underling'.

'You're fired' is the thing he's most famous for saying. All the time.

Phoenix61

(16,952 posts)
3. This! This is what gives me hope.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 12:06 PM
Feb 2017

If they are so scrambled they can't get this simple little story right do you really think they can cover up anything?

Mc Mike

(9,107 posts)
5. Sorry, lyin Ryan. We're not going to be diverted and think the problem was 'lying to Pence'.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 12:23 PM
Feb 2017

The problem is repug alliances with Putin.

The whole WI delegation are birchers, Pence is a bircher, Flynn is a bircher. Pence tried to run interference for Flynn, to keep Flynn in power, Flynn is Pence's ally. Then intel said 'oh, we have all calls to russians on tape', now bircher ryan says 'poor pence'. He also wants to out the dRumpf team for firing his fellow bircher Flynn, while trying to get credit for 'praising' dRumpf for doing it.

The same thing happened during the Pence interview by Chris Wallace. Pence downplayed the whole Flynn-Russia contact thing as rumor, and brought up another rumor -- dRUmpf's lawyer Mike Cohen's meeting in Prague with Russian officials. Pence went on to say the rumor was ridiculous, so he wanted credit for 'shooting the rumor down', when he in fact brought it up.

Also, Cohen is a Jewish wiseguy on dRumpf's team, and the bircher Pence was smearing him. That's the key infighting that is occurring in dRumpf's inner circle. You can't keep a coalition together composed of genocidal anti-semite birchers and Jewish organized crime and psy op propaganda neocon people.

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
8. This says it all Eddie Munster........................
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 12:35 PM
Feb 2017










So Eddie Munster here are the first 100 days, it hasn't lasted longer than 25 days now what do you have to say, whats your agenda now-------------------





Doitnow

(1,103 posts)
9. I'm thinking 45 cut Flynn a fat check so he wouldn't spill the beans on the way out the door.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 01:51 PM
Feb 2017

It won't work.

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