The following newsletter by Ishaan Tharoor was sent February 15, 2017:
The fallout over the resignation of Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s national security adviser, is still settling over Washington. Reporting by my colleagues on Monday night seemed to make Flynn’s position in the White House untenable. They revealed that officials from the Justice Department had warned the Trump administration that Flynn had likely misled the White House regarding his conversations with the Russian ambassador — and that he was potentially vulnerable to Kremlin blackmail. After a steady drumbeat of speculation, Flynn tendered his resignation just before midnight. Continue reading “American extremist”