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Trump lawyer says president knew Flynn had given FBI the same account he gave to vice president

Source: Washington Post

President Trump’s personal lawyer said on Sunday that the president knew in late January that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn had probably given FBI agents the same inaccurate account he provided to Vice President Pence about a call with the Russian ambassador.

Trump lawyer John Dowd said the information was passed to Trump by White House counsel Donald McGahn, who had been warned about Flynn’s statement to the vice president by a senior Justice Department official. The vice president said publicly at the time that Flynn had told him he had not discussed sanctions with the Russian diplomat — a statement disproved by a U.S. intelligence intercept of a phone call between Flynn and then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Trump was aware of the issue a couple of weeks before a conversation with then-FBI Director James B. Comey in which Comey said the president asked him if he could be lenient while investigating Flynn, whom Trump had just fired for misleading Pence about the nature of his conversations with the Russian.

According to notes kept by Comey, Trump asked if he could see “his way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” Trump fired Comey in May.

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Arctic Wildlife Refuge will open to drilling part of the tax reform bill. Hillary opposed it

I wonder how those "Green" radical busters feel about not voting for Clinton in November 2016,

Jill Stein slams Trump's tax reform bill

Green Party candidate Jill Stein called the tax reform bill out for favoring elites:

https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/936761745829441536

Flynn sought to convince Russian ambassador to kill UN bill condemning illegal Israeli settlements

Within today's NY Times article on Flynn's guilty plea deal, we learn of discussions between Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump's minions (including Flynn) as to how to kill a bill condemning the illegal settlements.

In one of the conversations described in court documents, the men discussed an upcoming United Nations Security Council vote on whether to condemn Israel’s building of settlements. At the time, the Obama administration was preparing to allow a Security Council vote on the matter.

Mr. Mueller’s investigators have learned through witnesses and documents that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Trump transition team to lobby other countries to help Israel, according to two people briefed on the inquiry. Investigators have learned that Mr. Flynn and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, took the lead in those efforts. Mr. Mueller’s team has emails that show Mr. Flynn saying he would work to kill the vote, the people briefed on the matter said.