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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:06 AM May 2017

Exclusive: Trump sends private message to embattled Flynn: "Stay strong"

Saddled with steep legal bills, Flynn wanted to reconnect with old friends and talk about potential future business opportunities. But one overriding question among those present were his views on the president who had fired him as national security advisor.

Flynn left little doubt about the answer. Not only did he remain loyal to President Trump, he indicated he and the president were still in communication. “I just got a message from the president to stay strong,” Flynn said after the meal was over, according to two sources who are close to Flynn and are familiar with the conversation, which took place on April 25.

The comment came at the end of an especially difficult day for Flynn when his legal woes had appeared to deepen: two congressmen, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings, D-Md., after reviewing classified Pentagon documents, had just accused Flynn of failing to disclose foreign income from Russia and Turkey when he sought to renew his security clearance.

The sources who spoke to Yahoo News say Flynn did not indicate how Trump had sent the message—whether a written note, a text message, a phone call or some other method. (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.) But the fact that the two men have stayed in contact could raise additional questions about the president’s reported request to former FBI Director James Comey to shut down a federal investigation into the retired Army general.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-circled-flynn-got-message-trump-stay-strong-145442727.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

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Exclusive: Trump sends private message to embattled Flynn: "Stay strong" (Original Post) kpete May 2017 OP
In other words, "Be nice, and be careful what you say about me" dalton99a May 2017 #1
You nailed it. emulatorloo May 2017 #2
Translation: "Don't flip" DefenseLawyer May 2017 #3
"Keep ya fuckin' mouth shut, capiche?" n/t Orsino May 2017 #4
White House counsel continually warns Trump to stop Panich52 May 2017 #5
Off to the greatest with you. MelissaB May 2017 #6
"Stay strong" louis-t May 2017 #7
In other words "don't rat me out" octoberlib May 2017 #8
Trump: "Don't worry, I will pardon you" OliverQ May 2017 #9
 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
3. Translation: "Don't flip"
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:14 AM
May 2017

There is an old saying in conspiracy cases: "Nobody talks, everybody walks". I can tell you that in a criminal conspiracy, if a leader sends a co-defendant a message to "stay strong" that would be interpreted by everyone as an implicit threat against cooperating.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
5. White House counsel continually warns Trump to stop
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:27 AM
May 2017

reaching out to Flynn.

Since they didn't really know one another before last year, why is Dumpf so eager to keep praising Flynn? That just seems to go beyond his supposed fondness for loyalty. After all, as one commentator said, Giuliani displayed most loyalty to Dumpf, esp after "grab pussy" tape released.

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