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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 messagewhether 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 presidents 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
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)Flynn has a story to tell. Asking for immunity to tell it.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)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.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Panich52
(5,829 posts)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.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)Says the cowardly, 4 year old whiner.