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Michael Flynn DID meet with Putin in 2015
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/29/vladimir-putin-michael-flynn-report-1440136Shortly after he returned from Moscow in 2015, former national security adviser Michael Flynn told a business associate that he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I had an interesting trip to Moscow (I did meet with Putin)," Flynn wrote in the Dec. 16, 2015 email, obtained by investigators on the House Oversight Committee.
Flynn famously was seated next to Putin at a gala hosted by Russia Today in Moscow that month. Both men have insisted, when asked, that they exchanged brief pleasantries but had no substantive discussions. And a lawyer for Flynn, who is awaiting sentencing for lying to the FBI during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, said nothing about the newly unearthed email that undercuts this argument.
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The email was revealed as part of a broader investigation on the corporate and foreign entanglements with the White House's push to ship nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. Flynn, at the time of his trip to Moscow, was an adviser on a corporate plan to bring dozens of nuclear reactors to the Middle East. The committee documented Flynn's plans to bring up the project to associates in Russia.
“I had an interesting trip to Moscow (I did meet with Putin)," Flynn wrote in the Dec. 16, 2015 email, obtained by investigators on the House Oversight Committee.
Flynn famously was seated next to Putin at a gala hosted by Russia Today in Moscow that month. Both men have insisted, when asked, that they exchanged brief pleasantries but had no substantive discussions. And a lawyer for Flynn, who is awaiting sentencing for lying to the FBI during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, said nothing about the newly unearthed email that undercuts this argument.
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The email was revealed as part of a broader investigation on the corporate and foreign entanglements with the White House's push to ship nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. Flynn, at the time of his trip to Moscow, was an adviser on a corporate plan to bring dozens of nuclear reactors to the Middle East. The committee documented Flynn's plans to bring up the project to associates in Russia.
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