The following article by Casey Michel was posted on the ThinkProgress website December 1, 2017:
From the earliest days of the Donald Trump administration, one question has hung in the background: Who directed Michael Flynn, Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser, to discuss Russia sanctions with then-Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency?
We still don’t know the answer. But we might be about to find out.
On Friday, Flynn pleaded guilty for lying to the FBI about the content of his December 29, 2016, phone call with Kislyak. As the Washington Post noted, Flynn’s guilty plea shows that “he is cooperating in the ongoing probe of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.”
ABC News further reports that Flynn appears willing to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in its ongoing investigation into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Per ABC, Flynn is “prepared to testify that that [then-candidate Trump] ordered him to make contact with the Russians, which contradicts all that Donald Trump has said at this point.”
While the decision follows an indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and another guilty plea from former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, Flynn’s guilty plea presents the clearest link between potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
ABC News further reports that Flynn appears willing to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in its ongoing investigation into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Per ABC, Flynn is “prepared to testify that that [then-candidate Trump] ordered him to make contact with the Russians, which contradicts all that Donald Trump has said at this point.”
While the decision follows an indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and another guilty plea from former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, Flynn’s guilty plea presents the clearest link between potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The plea is, of course, just the latest in two years of bizarre interactions Flynn has maintained with Russia. Two years ago, Flynn agreed to be paid more than $45,000 from RT to fly to Moscow to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the Kremlin-funded propaganda network. He sat at a table with Putin and Jill Stein – effectively kicking off a 24-month stretch of continued pro-Kremlin moves, resulting, today, in the clearest evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin we’ve yet seen.
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