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demmiblue

(36,824 posts)
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 04:56 PM Jun 2019

Listen To The Voicemail Trump's Lawyer Left For Michael Flynn's Lawyer After Flynn Cut A Deal

Source: Buzz Feed News

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of a voicemail that one of President Donald Trump's lawyers left for former national security adviser Michael Flynn's lawyer in November 2017 after learning Flynn was pulling out of a joint defense agreement with the president.

The voicemail was left by John Dowd, who served as one of Trump's personal lawyers in the Mueller investigation until Dowd resigned in March 2018. According to Mueller's report, on Nov. 22, 2017, Flynn's counsel alerted Trump's lawyers that Flynn was withdrawing from the joint defense agreement and could no longer share confidential information.

That evening, Dowd called Flynn's lawyer Robert Kelner and left a message. Flynn publicly entered a guilty plea the following week and revealed he was cooperating with investigators, but from Dowd's message, it appeared the president's lawyers were still trying to understand at the time why Flynn had withdrawn. If Flynn had made a deal with prosecutors, Dowd said, "remember what we've always said about the President and his feelings toward Flynn and, that still remains."

Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-lawyer-voicemail-michael-flynn-cooperation




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madaboutharry

(40,190 posts)
1. How does Trump hold power over people and get them
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:01 PM
Jun 2019

to commit crimes and compromise their dignity?

I just don't get it.

fierywoman

(7,673 posts)
4. Personally I think he has always "worked" (if you could call it that)
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:10 PM
Jun 2019

by acquiring dirt on whomever he wanted something from and then threatening them with it if they didn't comply to his demands.

SergeStorms

(19,187 posts)
15. Bingo!
Fri Jun 7, 2019, 03:33 AM
Jun 2019

That's the reason Lindsey Graham went from someone who despised Trump to someone who has his head firmly implanted up Trump's ass. Same thing for McTurtle. Blackmail, pure and simple. I think we can guess what Trump has on Graham and McConnell.

cstanleytech

(26,248 posts)
9. Could always ask Mitch as he is an expert on the subject of compromising a persons dignity
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:27 PM
Jun 2019

not to mention their personal ethics.

no_hypocrisy

(46,038 posts)
11. The only I can come up with is
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:49 PM
Jun 2019

Trump has invested much money since the Eighties, putting together dossiers on people in power in case he needed leverage.

Think about it. Why do you think J. Edgar Hoover did it on non-criminals? And Trump was attached to Roy Cohn, who knew how to make people do things they didn't want to do. Information!

It can't be he has enough money to bribe, nor if he did, he wouldn't waste his money on that strategy.

Mr.Bill

(24,253 posts)
12. By knowing about crimes they have already committed.
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 06:52 PM
Jun 2019

Once he has them compromised, he owns them. Just like a prison guard smuggling drugs to convicts. Once they extort him into doing it once whether by blackmail, threats to his family or whatever, he has to keep doing it to keep from being exposed.

Once you've been extorted or bribed, you are owned. The only Art of the Deal Trump has ever known.

LiberalArkie

(15,703 posts)
13. Just remember one thing, Since 9/11, the patriot act has allowed the spooks to listen in and
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 07:07 PM
Jun 2019

record everything. Pelosi's calls and emails on down to Trumps and everyone in Bush's, Obamas and Trumps groups.

People wonder why nothing happens, welllllll.


Everyone is compromised by everyone.

LenaBaby61

(6,973 posts)
6. SO .....
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:24 PM
Jun 2019

Half man half pig Dowd got caught in a LIE.

That thing was over Faux Noose the other evening lying on Shammity's show, but now with the release of this voice mail he got caught contradicting HIMSELF.

Thanks to Judge Emmit Sullivan ordering the release of that voice mail, we know the truth with 100% certainty. They were NOT in a joint defense agreement. All of these fuckers are guilty of TREASON (I can't wait to hear the Flynn Strzok interview) ....

Thank you Judge Sullivan 💖

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. First of the smoking Guns.
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:25 PM
Jun 2019

There will be more. Flood will be brought up on charges as well as loose his Law License. BTW,the Law firm reping Flynn is the same Firm that Eric Holder was a Partner in at one time.

 

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)
10. first question, what do or did you mean by may implicate the president. ?
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:39 PM
Jun 2019

Im just to old for this bullshit.

Botany

(70,449 posts)
16. On voicemail, Trump's lawyer asks Michael Flynn's attorney for a 'heads up'
Fri Jun 7, 2019, 09:20 AM
Jun 2019

Now is this fake news?

"Hey, Rob, uhm, this is John again," the Nov. 22, 2017 voicemail recording starts out, as Trump's lawyer, John Dowd, requests Flynn's attorney, Rob Kelner, for a "heads up" about the nature of Flynn's cooperation, a move that special counsel Robert Mueller's team has described as a "potential" effort to hinder the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

"If, on the other hand, we have, there's information that. .. implicates the President, then we've got a national security issue, or maybe a national security issue, I don't know ... some issue, we got to-we got to deal with, not only for the President, but for the country," Dowd tells Kelner in the voicemail. "So ... uh ... you know, then-then, you know, we need some kind of heads up. Um, just for the sake of ... protecting all our interests, if we can, without you having to give up any ... confidential information."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/voicemailtrumps-lawyer-asks-michael-flynns-attorney-heads/story?id=63542167

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