PJ wrote:
You liive on the CNN "Fake News Planet" Flynn was set up by the Lying FBI. You are suffering "Collusion delusion"! The ONLY collusion is from your corrupt side!!
You need to dig a bit deeper there Bubba...
Perhaps you aren't aware of the fact that the business Flynn was engaged in was consulting and lobbying for Russian interests? It's what the man did, he traded on his deep inside intelligence contacts and information. Considering that there have been sanctions against Russia that prohibits business transactions with them, what Flynn would have had to have been helping engineer was lifting those sanctions, something that Trump rather obviously was promoting well before he was elected. That people don't automatically make a connection to Trump people like Page and Manafort as well as others who had business ties with Russia. They travelled to Russia and met with Russian officials here. These people repeatedly lied by failing to list Russian meetings and connections with FBI for purposes of clearances. The very reason people and their ties to other countries, especially ones who we are at odds with like Russia are deeply investigated for ties is to determine whether they are a security risk. If they do in fact have a history they are a risk, Period. It means they do not get access to top secret intelligence that may be about the things these enemy countries pose.l
To interfere with foreign relations with Russia before or during the transition before Trump was inaugurated is specifically illegal.
People who can't see that a majority of Trump's campaign, transition, and current staff have a common history of previous ties with Russia that involved furthering business relations by lifting sanctions just aren't processing available facts. It's gotten to where those on the right don't believe anything including the facts that are not disputed, they are mainstream media facts. Who puts a team together that has such strong ties if not conflicts of interest with a country we are at odds with?
Tillerson facts, fake news?
Mainstream fact, Exxon who Tillerson was CEO of was entering into a deal to fund and implement the payment of $500 million for an interest in Russia's oil industry. Sanctions against Russia scuttled that deal, Exxon would have loved to proceed there. In fact in the real world it's likely they have done so to some degree, but that has nothing to do with the facts, just common sense business liklihoods.
Fact, Had Trump had his way sanctions would have been immediately lifted, but that created a shit storm of opposition.
I get the distinct impression people who support Trump thinks these are all lies, because anyone with a brain could see that there is something wrong with conflicts of interest with Russia.