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Flynn charged with one count of making false statement
By Jeremy Herb, CNN
Updated 1433 GMT (2233 HKT) December 1, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Retired Army Lt. General Michael Flynn arrives for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Flynn is appointed National Security Advisor to Trump. Donald J. Trump will become the 45th president of the United States today. (Photo by Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)

Top Dems seek answers on Kushner, Flynn
WASHINGTON, DC: National Security Adviser Michael Flynn listens to remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast where U.S. President Donald Trump spoke February 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Sources: Russians bragged about using Flynn
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 08: Former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates testifies before the Senate Judicary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill May 8, 2017 in Washington, DC. Before being fired by U.S. President Donald Trump, Yates testified that she had warned the White House about contacts between former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Russia that might make him vulnerable to blackmail. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Yates contradicts Spicer on Michael Flynn
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn arrives for a press conference between US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 13, 2017.
The White House announced February 13, 2017 that Michael Flynn has resigned as President Donald Trump's national security advisor, amid escalating controversy over his contacts with Moscow. In his formal resignation letter, Flynn acknowledged that in the period leading up to Trump's inauguration: "I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador." / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
NYT: Flynn halted military plan Turkey opposed
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 29: General Mike Flynn, Donald Trump's new national security adviser, arrives at Trump Tower on November 29, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
What did Mike Pence know about Flynn?
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (ret.), National Security Advisor Designate speaks during a conference on the transition of the US Presidency from Barack Obama to Donald Trump at the US Institute Of Peace in Washington DC, January 10, 2017. / AFP / CHRIS KLEPONIS (Photo credit should read CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Watch: Flynn likened immunity to guilt in 2016
nr brooke blog ex spy chief slams obama ISIS strategy_00000320.jpg
How Michael Flynn lost his job in 23 days
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Retired Army Lt. General Michael Flynn arrives for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Flynn is appointed National Security Advisor to Trump. Donald J. Trump will become the 45th president of the United States today. (Photo by Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)
Michael Flynn charged with lying to FBI
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (ret.), National Security Advisor Designate speaks during a conference on the transition of the US Presidency from Barack Obama to Donald Trump at the US Institute Of Peace in Washington DC, January 10, 2017. / AFP / CHRIS KLEPONIS (Photo credit should read CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Toobin: Flynn guilty plea appears certain
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 12: Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for National Security Advisor, waits for an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower, December 12, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Flynn lawyers cut off talks with Trump team
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 17: Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn gestures as he arrives at Trump Tower, November 17, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Michael Flynn in less than 2 minutes
Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara attends the Senate Intelligence Committee where FBI Director James Comey is sent to testify in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Bharara: Flynn likely talking deal with Mueller
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 5: Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the choice of President-elect Donald J. Trump for national security adviser, talks with colleagues at Trump Tower on December 5, 2016 in New York City. Trump has been holding daily meetings at the luxury high rise that bears his name since his election in November. (Photo by Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)
WSJ: Flynn offered up to $15M to deliver cleric
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: National Security Adviser Michael Flynn sits before U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a joint press conference at the White House on February 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. The two answered questions from American and Japanese press. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Sources: Flynn expected to invoke the Fifth

Top Dems seek answers on Kushner, Flynn
WASHINGTON, DC: National Security Adviser Michael Flynn listens to remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast where U.S. President Donald Trump spoke February 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Sources: Russians bragged about using Flynn
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 08: Former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates testifies before the Senate Judicary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill May 8, 2017 in Washington, DC. Before being fired by U.S. President Donald Trump, Yates testified that she had warned the White House about contacts between former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Russia that might make him vulnerable to blackmail. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Yates contradicts Spicer on Michael Flynn
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn arrives for a press conference between US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 13, 2017.
The White House announced February 13, 2017 that Michael Flynn has resigned as President Donald Trump's national security advisor, amid escalating controversy over his contacts with Moscow. In his formal resignation letter, Flynn acknowledged that in the period leading up to Trump's inauguration: "I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador." / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
NYT: Flynn halted military plan Turkey opposed
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 29: General Mike Flynn, Donald Trump's new national security adviser, arrives at Trump Tower on November 29, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
What did Mike Pence know about Flynn?
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (ret.), National Security Advisor Designate speaks during a conference on the transition of the US Presidency from Barack Obama to Donald Trump at the US Institute Of Peace in Washington DC, January 10, 2017. / AFP / CHRIS KLEPONIS (Photo credit should read CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Watch: Flynn likened immunity to guilt in 2016
nr brooke blog ex spy chief slams obama ISIS strategy_00000320.jpg
How Michael Flynn lost his job in 23 days
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Retired Army Lt. General Michael Flynn arrives for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Flynn is appointed National Security Advisor to Trump. Donald J. Trump will become the 45th president of the United States today. (Photo by Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)
Michael Flynn charged with lying to FBI
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (ret.), National Security Advisor Designate speaks during a conference on the transition of the US Presidency from Barack Obama to Donald Trump at the US Institute Of Peace in Washington DC, January 10, 2017. / AFP / CHRIS KLEPONIS (Photo credit should read CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Toobin: Flynn guilty plea appears certain
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 12: Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for National Security Advisor, waits for an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower, December 12, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Flynn lawyers cut off talks with Trump team
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 17: Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn gestures as he arrives at Trump Tower, November 17, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Michael Flynn in less than 2 minutes
Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara attends the Senate Intelligence Committee where FBI Director James Comey is sent to testify in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Bharara: Flynn likely talking deal with Mueller
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 5: Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the choice of President-elect Donald J. Trump for national security adviser, talks with colleagues at Trump Tower on December 5, 2016 in New York City. Trump has been holding daily meetings at the luxury high rise that bears his name since his election in November. (Photo by Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)
WSJ: Flynn offered up to $15M to deliver cleric
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: National Security Adviser Michael Flynn sits before U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a joint press conference at the White House on February 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. The two answered questions from American and Japanese press. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Sources: Flynn expected to invoke the Fifth
Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has charged former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn with "willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding conversations with Russia's ambassador.

He is due to appear in court later Friday morning, a court spokesperson said. The White House declined to immediately comment.
Flynn is the first Trump administration official and the fourth connected to the campaign to be charged as part of Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Russian government and members of Trump's team, as well as potential obstruction of justice and financial crimes.

Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates were indicted last month; they pleaded not guilty. And Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty for making a false statement to the FBI over contacts with officials connected to the Russian government.
The charge against Flynn is the first in Mueller's probe that has reached someone in the Trump White House and is the latest sign that the special counsel's investigation is intensifying.
Flynn's lawyers have previously criticized media reports about his connection to the Russia investigation as peddling "unfounded allegations, outrageous claims of treason, and vicious innuendo directed against him." Flynn hasn't spoken publicly since his ouster in February.
The charges mark yet another stunning downfall for Flynn, 58, a retired general who rose to the highest ranks of the Army over a three-decade career -- only to see him drummed out of the military by the Obama administration before unexpectedly rising again on the heels of Trump's election victory.
Michael Flynn in less than 2 minutes
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A key campaign surrogate and adviser during President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Flynn was tapped as Trump's national security adviser in November 2016, a senior White House job that put him in a vital role for all of the administration's national security and foreign policy decisions.
Though he wasn't initially considered for the top job, Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law Jared Kushner made it clear to the Trump transition team that they wanted him there, CNN has reported.
Flynn would hold the job less than a month, resigning from the post after he misled Vice President Mike Pence and then-chief of staff Reince Priebus about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak in which they discussed US sanctions against Russia.
Flynn is also the spark of potential trouble for the President in Mueller's probe, as the special counsel is investigating potential obstruction of justice in the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Comey testified before the Senate intelligence committee that Trump asked him to drop the Flynn probe during a February Oval Office meeting not long after Flynn resigned as national security adviser.

This is a light charge because he has flipped someone up the ladder. Definitely the orange Cheetos is a roast.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/01/politics/michael-flynn-charged/index.html

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4317992/11-30-17-Flynn-Information.pdf


Next in line will be Jared Kushner, then Trump Jr, then guess who next after....

All me folks from the last thread are already here, the brainless sissy reported my handle to the mods and I got 2 months ban. Good to see how the orange one is going slowly into the abyss.

Kophschmerzen:
All me folks from the last thread are already here, the brainless sissy reported my handle to the mods and I got 2 months ban. Good to see how the orange one is going slowly into the abyss.

Hey Buddy, another one bite the dust. The next one is gonna be Jared Kushner and the little Mafiosi Don Jnr and then the racist pig named Trampy will fall like a pack of cards. In my office now in Downtown Chicago all smiling know our National nightmare will soon be over.

Lucasbalo:
Hey Buddy, another one bite the dust. The next one is gonna be Jared Kushner and the little Mafiosi Don Jnr and then the racist pig named Trampy will fall like a pack of cards. In my office now in Downtown Chicago all smiling know our National nightmare will soon be over.

Hey bro, definitely america will laugh last when the family of criminals are all locked up in a federal penitentiary.

TheShopKeeper:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4317992/11-30-17-Flynn-Information.pdf


Next in line will be Jared Kushner, then Trump Jr, then guess who next after....

You are absolutely on point. The demented 71 year old racist poo will be the final icing on that strawberry cake.

Kophschmerzen:


Hey bro, definitely america will laugh last when the family of are all locked up in a federal penitentiary.

Amen to that my brother. We deserve better than that Mafiosi family ruling us. Even British PM Teresa May was on his case yesterday for his bigotry and racism. Trump is a big disgrace on Americans.

They are going down, down, down, down ....

ABC News is reporting now that Mike Flynn is ready to testify that Trampy directed him to deal with Russia. The plot thickens and the racist pig and his worthlessly corrupt family will end up in The gulag. Early Xmas present for us as decent human beings.

From this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZ6M1dk2c4


To this:

https://thinkprogress.org/michael-flynn-charged-fbi-bc815c614f54/

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-flynn-charged-making-false-statements-fbi-documents/story?id=50849354

Even the Dow Jones is taking a battering:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/01/us-stock-futures-data-opec-tax-on-the-agenda.html

https://twitter.com/asmith83/status/936622022418944003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2Ftwitter.min.html%23936622022418944003

Michael Flynn during his prep walk...

They wanna jam their fraudulent tax cut through tonight, folks keep calling your senators.

Mindfulness:
They are going down, down, down, down ....

flynnter is coming

Breaking news: and kushner is the big fish!!! They are in for a toast.

Kophschmerzen:
Breaking news: and kushner is the big fish!!! They are in for a toast.

Not only Kushner but Don the little Mafiosi and then the fat ugly racist pig . Early Xmas present for all of us that are decent Americans and human beings.

Mueller reportedly subpoenas Deutsche Bank in Russia probe

This is not looking good for Donald Trump....

Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged Russian election meddling, reportedly subpoenaed Deutsche Bank several weeks ago, calling on the German bank to submit data pertaining to its client relationship with President Trump.

Bloomberg, citing an unnamed source, reported that Mueller is seeking information on the giant lender and its relationship with Trump and his family. Trump reportedly owes the bank $300 million.

Democrats have said Trump's relationship with the bank is crucial in the Russia investigation. The Washington Post reported in August that Democrats have pushed for an investigation into the bank’s internal review of the loans to see if there is any link with Russia.

Deutsche rejected demands by Democratic lawmakers back in June for details of Trump's finances, Reuters reported. The bank cited privacy laws.

The bank, Trump’s primary lender, also approved a $285 million refinancing loan for Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s company a month before the election, The Post reported.

Trump, who spoke to reporters Monday as he left the White House to head to Utah, unleashed a string of tweets over the weekend in which he criticized the FBI and raised questions about the federal investigation.

In one of his messages, Trump again denied that he directed the former FBI director James Comey to stop investigating his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/05/mueller-reportedly-subpoenas-deutsche-bank-in-russia-probe.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-deutsche-bank-mueller_us_5a269325e4b07324e84082dc?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/deutsche-bank-is-said-to-have-received-subpoena-on-client-trump

This is going to be very problematic for Trump. But there is no getting around the fact that Deutsche Bank is at the center of Russian money laundering. Deutsche Bank was also deeply tied up with Robert Mercer. They helped devise dubious schemes to help Mercer's RenTec avoid paying up to $16 $6 billion in taxes. And it's also the only bank that would lend Trump money after his 4 bankruptcies. And its also the largest lender to Jared Kushner. The day before the US election, the bank lent Kushner $285 million, for a real estate deal involving Lev Leviev, a close friend of Putin's. So Deutsche Bank is a key player. So it's to be expected that if you were investigating Russian collusion with the President, you would go directly to the bank that forms the nexus between the guy bankrolling the Trump campaign and overseeing the data-analytics campaign (which potentially was the center of the collusion charges), the son-in-law and chief advisor of the President, the President himself and numerous corrupted Oligarchs close to Putin. Also, the former head of Deutsche Bank Josef Ackermann, who was in charge during the Russian money laundering phase (Deutsche Bank was fined $630 billion million for illegal activity), left the bank and then was offered a job by Wilbur Ross as Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus - and Cyprus of course is the financial center for Russian money laundering and it's where Paul Manafort had many shell companies registered. So this is bad bad news for Trump if Mueller is able to dig into these finances.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7ho8ks/deutsche_bank_received_subpoena_on_client_trump/

The plot thickens and hopefully, Director Mueller will do the needful sooner,

TheShopKeeper:
This is going to be very problematic for Trump. But there is no getting around the fact that Deutsche Bank is at the center of Russian money laundering. Deutsche Bank was also deeply tied up with Robert Mercer. They helped devise dubious schemes to help Mercer's RenTec avoid paying up to $16 $6 billion in taxes. And it's also the only bank that would lend Trump money after his 4 bankruptcies. And its also the largest lender to Jared Kushner. The day before the US election, the bank lent Kushner $285 million, for a real estate deal involving Lev Leviev, a close friend of Putin's. So Deutsche Bank is a key player. So it's to be expected that if you were investigating Russian collusion with the President, you would go directly to the bank that forms the nexus between the guy bankrolling the Trump campaign and overseeing the data-analytics campaign (which potentially was the center of the collusion charges), the son-in-law and chief advisor of the President, the President himself and numerous corrupted Oligarchs close to Putin. Also, the former head of Deutsche Bank Josef Ackermann, who was in charge during the Russian money laundering phase (Deutsche Bank was fined $630 billion million for illegal activity), left the bank and then was offered a job by Wilbur Ross as Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus - and Cyprus of course is the financial center for Russian money laundering and it's where Paul Manafort had many shell companies registered. So this is bad bad news for Trump if Mueller is able to dig into these finances.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7ho8ks/deutsche_bank_received_subpoena_on_client_trump/

The plot thickens and hopefully, Director Mueller will do the needful sooner.

TheShopKeeper:
This is going to be very problematic for Trump. But there is no getting around the fact that Deutsche Bank is at the center of Russian money laundering. Deutsche Bank was also deeply tied up with Robert Mercer. They helped devise dubious schemes to help Mercer's RenTec avoid paying up to $16 $6 billion in taxes. And it's also the only bank that would lend Trump money after his 4 bankruptcies. And its also the largest lender to Jared Kushner. The day before the US election, the bank lent Kushner $285 million, for a real estate deal involving Lev Leviev, a close friend of Putin's. So Deutsche Bank is a key player. So it's to be expected that if you were investigating Russian collusion with the President, you would go directly to the bank that forms the nexus between the guy bankrolling the Trump campaign and overseeing the data-analytics campaign (which potentially was the center of the collusion charges), the son-in-law and chief advisor of the President, the President himself and numerous corrupted Oligarchs close to Putin. Also, the former head of Deutsche Bank Josef Ackermann, who was in charge during the Russian money laundering phase (Deutsche Bank was fined $630 billion million for illegal activity), left the bank and then was offered a job by Wilbur Ross as Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus - and Cyprus of course is the financial center for Russian money laundering and it's where Paul Manafort had many shell companies registered. So this is bad bad news for Trump if Mueller is able to dig into these finances.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7ho8ks/deutsche_bank_received_subpoena_on_client_trump/

Flynn texted partners about nuclear plan during inauguration, whistleblower says

Congressional Democrats said Wednesday they have evidence from a confidential whistleblower that within minutes of President Donald Trump's inauguration, then-national security adviser Michael Flynn sent assurances to former business partners that a plan to build nuclear reactors across the Middle East was "good to go."

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said in a letter dated Wednesday that the whistleblower reported attending an Inauguration Day event with Flynn's former business associate Alex Copson, the managing partner of ACU Strategic Partners.

The whistleblower said Copson gushed that Trump's inauguration was "the best day of my life" because it meant his company's effort to create a U.S.-Russia energy partnership in the Middle East, which reportedly would have included more than two dozen nuclear plants in the region, was moving forward. Copson said Flynn was making sure Obama-era sanctions, which he claimed threatened the nuclear project, would be "ripped up," according to the whistleblower.

And the whistleblower said Copson flipped his phone around to reveal a text message he said came from Flynn describing the nuclear reactor project as "good to go." According to the account, the whistleblower didn't see the substance of the text but recalled seeing a 12:11 p.m. time stamp. At that time, Flynn was on the dais during Trump's inaugural address.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/michael-flynn-texted-nuclear-plans-whistleblower-282070?lo=ap_e1