The Trump Administration
Flynn
Flynn
General Michael Flynn, retired U.S. Army Lt. General, National Security Advisor for the Administration. —RESIGNED 13 February 2017
Day 788
Monday 18 March 2019
The retired general’s brother and sister are fanning the flames. His son is a public skeptic.
Day 761
Tuesday 19 February 2019
Day 699
Wednesday 19 December 2018
Starting on January 4, Flynn cannot travel more than 50 miles from Washington, DC, and he must surrender his passport.
Day 698
Tuesday 18 December 2018
“All along, you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser to the president of the United States”
Flynn is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday for lying to the FBI about a conversation with Kislyak during the transition.
Day 694
Friday 14 December 2018
The FBI memos make clear that top Justice Department and bureau officials knew that Flynn's public story about his calls with Kislyak differed from what he actually said to the ambassador on the phone during the presidential transition
Flynn's allies have claimed that Flynn was essentially set up by FBI agents wanting to take down the president.
Day 693
Thursday 13 December 2018
Day 692
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Day 685
Wednesday 5 December 2018
"The defendant deserves credit for accepting responsibility in a timely fashion and substantially assisting the government."
Day 684
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Flynn provided "substantial assistance" in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
What does this all mean? It means people higher up than Flynn are in deep trouble.
In the court filing due by midnight Tuesday, Mueller's team could also nod toward the next criminal indictments in its sights.
Day 608
Wednesday 19 September 2018
“It’s a sign that, perhaps, Flynn may not be critical to other pieces of Mueller’s investigation”
Day 553
Thursday 26 July 2018
In other words, not only was Trump aware of the payment by AMI, he even knew the figure.
Day 467
Tuesday 1 May 2018
"Due to the status of the special counsel's investigation, the parties do not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sentencing hearing at this time"
Day 456
Friday 20 April 2018
Day 433
Wednesday 28 March 2018
A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of Mr. Trump’s pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, with their lawyers last year
Day 411
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Day 342
Wednesday 27 December 2017
Day 321
Wednesday 6 December 2017
"Today, I am writing to inform you about a whistleblower who has come forward wth evidence that Lt. General Michael Flynn—within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as President—was communicating directly with his former business colleagues about their plan to work with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East."
Day 318
Sunday 3 December 2017
Day 317
Saturday 2 December 2017
Knowing that someone had committed a crime (by lying to the FBI) but encouraging agents to stop investigating is tantamount to obstruction of justice
While Mr. Trump has disparaged as a Democratic “hoax” any claims that he or his aides had unusual interactions with Russian officials, the records suggest that the Trump transition team was intensely focused on improving relations with Moscow and was willing to intervene to pursue that goal
On Dec. 29, a transition adviser to Mr. Trump, K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions ... could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, “which has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him”
When asked by reporters if he was worried about what Flynn might say, Trump said, "No, I'm not. And what has been shown is no collusion, no collusion. There has been absolutely no collusion. So we're very happy."
Day 316
Friday 1 December 2017
One person close to the White House described the mood this way: “What they’re freaked out about is that there are no leaks. Papadopoulos didn’t leak. Flynn didn’t leak. They feel like they can’t trust anyone. Their own counsel didn’t know.”
Retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn has promised “full cooperation” in the special counsel’s Russia investigation and, according to a confidant, is prepared to testify that Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians, initially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria.
There's one reason — one criminal charge, actually — that lets us safely assume Michael Flynn switched sides: He pleaded guilty to one charge of lying to the FBI, when there's so much more the special counsel could have potentially nabbed him for.
“The best explanation for why Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III would agree to it is that Flynn has something very valuable to offer in exchange: damaging testimony on someone else.”
The charge brings the criminal case into the Trump White House and raises questions about who else in the administration Mueller could be eyeing.
Day 308
Thursday 23 November 2017
Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn ... notified the president’s legal team in recent days that they could no longer discuss the special counsel’s investigation, according to four people involved in the case — an indication that Mr. Flynn is cooperating with prosecutors or negotiating a deal.
Day 295
Friday 10 November 2017
Flynn’s work for Turkey has been somewhat buried amid the Russia revelations, which is unfortunate because it’s fairly outrageous.
Day 290
Sunday 5 November 2017
The pressure on Flynn is the latest signal that Mueller is moving at a rapid, and steady, pace in his investigation.
Day 237
Wednesday 13 September 2017
The younger Flynn worked closely with his father, whose connections to foreign governments, including Russia and Turkey, have been a subject of federal and congressional investigations.
Day 218
Friday 25 August 2017
The requests suggest that Mueller’s investigators are looking closely at Manafort and Flynn
Day 197
Friday 4 August 2017
Though not a formal subpoena, the document request is the first known instance of Mr. Mueller’s team asking the White House to hand over records.
“Very few people know who’s going to get axed next, but if you’re viewed as a Flynnstone it’s a liability”
Day 195
Wednesday 2 August 2017
The latest to go was Ezra Cohen-Watnick
A fierce Trump loyalist, Mr. Cohen-Watnick drew attention when he ... briefed Representative Devin Nunes ... on classified intelligence reports revealing that American intelligence agencies had conducted incidental surveillance of Mr. Trump’s transition team.
Day 161
Thursday 29 June 2017
...hackers wanted to get emails from Clinton’s server to an intermediary and then to Mike Flynn
Day 152
Tuesday 20 June 2017
Trump entrusted him with the nation’s secrets despite knowing that he faced a Justice Department investigation over his undisclosed foreign lobbying.
Day 139
Wednesday 7 June 2017
January 6 Briefing: Creating written records immediately after one-on-one conversations with Mr. Trump was my practice from that point forward. This had not been my practice in the past.
January 27 Dinner: "A few moments later, the President said, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.” I didn’t move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence."
February 14 Oval Office Meeting: He then said, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
March 30 Phone Call: He described the Russia investigation as “a cloud” that was impairing his ability to act on behalf of the country. He said he had nothing to do with Russia, had not been involved with hookers in Russia, and had always assumed he was being recorded when in Russia. He asked what we could do to “lift the cloud.”
April 11 Phone Call: “Because I have been very loyal to you, very loyal; we had that thing you know.” I did not reply or ask him what he meant by “that thing.” ... That was the last time I spoke with President Trump.
One by one this winter, then-FBI Director James B. Comey pulled aside three of the bureau’s top officials for private chats.
Day 123
Monday 22 May 2017
The Fifth Amendment “doesn’t have the same level of protection” when it comes to documents
Day 120
Friday 19 May 2017
Officials cautioned, however, that the Russians might have exaggerated their sway with Trump's team during those conversations.
It has left White House officials and outside advisers perplexed: Why is Trump so determined to defend a man at the center of a federal investigation that is damaging his administration
Day 118
Wednesday 17 May 2017
One of the Trump administration’s first decisions about the fight against the Islamic State was made by Michael Flynn weeks before he was fired – and it conformed to the wishes of Turkey
Flynn told President Trump’s transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation
Day 117
Tuesday 16 May 2017
"There are other memos about his meetings too. He wrote down every word Trump said to him as soon as he could."
“I hope you can let this go,” the president told Mr. Comey
“I think that this was a serious compromise situation, that the Russians had real leverage. He also had lied to the vice president of the United States,” Yates said
Day 112
Thursday 11 May 2017
...the panel decided to issue the subpoena after Flynn, through his lawyer, declined to cooperate with an April 28 request to turn over the documents.
Day 110
Tuesday 9 May 2017
What Spicer appears to be saying is that the Trump White House didn’t trust or believe Yates when she first came to raise concerns about Flynn for no other reason than that she was an “Obama appointee”
Day 109
Monday 8 May 2017
Moreover, she took the opportunity to drop the news bomb that the administration ordered the Office of Legal Counsel to not even tell the acting attorney general the ban was in the works.
...detailing how she had informed Trump administration officials that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn was susceptible to blackmail from Russia, only to watch President Donald Trump take 18 days to fire him.
Day 103
Tuesday 2 May 2017
Her previously scheduled appearance in front of the House intelligence committee was canceled by its chairman Rep. Devin Nunes
Day 99
Friday 28 April 2017
Sessions said Friday that his recusal from Justice Department investigations into the 2016 campaign for president will extend into inquiries into the activities of former national security adviser Michael Flynn
Day 96
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, appeared to violate federal law when he failed to seek permission or inform the U.S. government about accepting tens of thousands of dollars from Russian organizations
Day 89
Tuesday 18 April 2017
Also at the head table ... two-time U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, the only American besides Flynn at the head table.
(Stein did well enough to help Russia achieve its aims. Her vote totals in the crucial states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan were all greater than Clinton's margin of defeat, and arguably denied Clinton an Electoral College victory.)
Day 76
Wednesday 5 April 2017
The restructuring reflects the growing influence of national security adviser H.R. McMaster, an Army three-star general who took over the post after retired general Michael Flynn was ousted in February
His allies said privately that Mr. Bannon had been put on the principals committee to keep an eye on Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn
Day 72
Saturday 1 April 2017
But Flynn appears to have been doing exactly what he said he wasn’t doing.
Day 71
Friday 31 March 2017
...current and former officials say that, once Nunes admitted he visited a secure room in the White House — as he did earlier this week — it became clear that White House officials played a role in providing him information.
“I don’t think Congress should give him immunity. If there’s an open investigation by the FBI, that should not happen. I also don’t believe that actually that the president should be weighing in on this. They’re the ones that actually would prosecute something.”
“It’s not unusual for anybody who’s the subject of a federal investigation to want immunity before speaking to federal authorities”
Day 70
Thursday 30 March 2017
He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees through his lawyer but has so far found no takers
Day 57
Friday 17 March 2017
Flynn was paid more than $67,000 by Russian companies before the presidential election
Day 49
Thursday 9 March 2017
...another black eye for Flynn, who has the rare distinction of having been fired by two US presidents
Day 29
Friday 17 February 2017
The Pentagon has a rule requiring retired officers to report income from foreign states.
Day 28
Thursday 16 February 2017
The Jan. 24 interview potentially puts Flynn in legal jeopardy. Lying to the FBI is a felony offense.
President Trump's first choice to succeed the departed Michael Flynn as national security adviser has turned the job down due to family reasons
Michael Flynn resigned because he got caught, not because of what he did. White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed this with his statement during Tuesday’s press briefing that Flynn did “nothing wrong or inappropriate.”
Bannon told the Atlantic’s Rosie Gray that Breitbart’s report was “absurd.”
Day 27
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Chaffetz said the Oversight Committee won't probe the circumstances surrounding Flynn.
The Western European intelligence operations began in August, after the British government obtained information that people acting on behalf of Russia were in contact with members of the Trump campaign.
"I just don't think it's useful to be doing investigation after investigation, particularly of your own party. We'll never even get started with doing the things we need to do, like repealing Obamacare, if we're spending our whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans. I think it makes no sense."
Day 26
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Both the New York Times and Newsmax reported on the fake account, erroneously quoting the account's claim that Flynn viewed himself as the "sole scapegoat."
Everything about this story suggests that the White House has many secrets to hide and little of the time to prepare, the competence to execute or the cooperation of the President to hide them effectively.
"And I want to know, 'Did General Flynn do this by himself or was he directed by somebody to do it?'"
Dec. 2015 — Flynn took a paid trip to Russia and appeared at a gala for RT, the state-run TV station, where he dined with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Flynn was often perceived as Donald Trump's key contact with Moscow.
No one in the 64-year history of the role had a shorter tenure than his, not by a long shot.
Just hours before Flynn resigned on Monday, Conway said Trump had “full confidence” in his national security adviser.
Day 25
Monday 13 February 2017
The move comes less than a month into the job, making him one of the shortest-serving senior presidential advisers in modern history.
Top White House officials have been reviewing Flynn's contacts with the Russians and whether he discussed the possibility of lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia once Trump took office.
Day 24
Sunday 12 February 2017
Three weeks into the Trump administration, council staff members get up in the morning, read President Trump’s Twitter posts and struggle to make policy to fit them.
In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway?
Day 23
Saturday 11 February 2017
The White House has dismissed the dossier as fiction, and some of the facts and assertions it includes have indeed been proven wrong. Other allegations in the dossier, however, are still being investigated.
Day 22
Friday 10 February 2017
The talks were part of a series of contacts between Flynn and Kislyak that began before the Nov. 8 election and continued during the transition
Day 20
Wednesday 8 February 2017
According to the sources, Flynn said he was not sure and Trump should ask an economist instead.
Day 3
Sunday 22 January 2017