attribute it to trump because he doesn t know whether trump knew everything that dowd was saying, and he declined to interview dowd because of the attorney/client privilege. but basically, here it is. the witness, michael flynn, knows all this stuff about trump, and dowd is saying give us a heads-up, meaning tell us what he s going to tell mueller to protect all of our interests, and remember what a good man we think you are, and the pardon is dangled so that, in effect, flynn will be playing both sides of the street. there s no longer the joint defense going on, but the two of them can still work together if dowd is informed and protect donald trump s interests. as flynn s case appears to be heading towards sentencing, something is going on in the case that s hard to discern from the outside. he s fired his lawyers, the initial sentencing plan in december went haywire when clearly there was a big
of course, he was. he had put over $500,000 into the pocket of trump s first national security adviser, but that guy got fired. so why not start putting money directly into donald trump s pocket through his hotel? that was may 2017. if may 2017 rings a bell for you as an important time, that s probably because just four days before that turkish lobbying conference got under way at trump s hotel, robert mueller was appointed special counsel to look into the russian attack on the 2016 election and any potential involvement by the trump campaign. not to mention all related matters. well, here s what we now know as of today. apparently that turkish businessman, the guy who paid mike flynn to lobby for the turkish government, after robert mueller was appointed, that guy s lawyers contacted mueller. contacted the special counsel s office. they called up mueller and said, hey, our client, who paid the
was writing up there, i mean, i m just guessing, but presumably that is president trump freaking out that he didn t take putin s call right away. oh, god. what will he think of me that i didn t take the call and then i didn t call right back. you idiot, flynn, do you know how important this is? somebody get me a phone. i need to call him right away. let s send chocolates and flowers. let s send crimea. with this ruling from judge james rossburg tonight, we will get to see for ourselves who, in fact, is behind all of the intriguing blanks in that redacted portion of comey s memos. also in another nearby federal court in the eastern district of virginia today, an informal adviser to the trump white house and apparently quite a key adviser to the trump campaign,
george nader tried to make his case to a judge today that he should be released on bail ahead of his trial on charges of transporting child pornography. george nader is cited multiple times in mueller s report as a witness who was involved in multiple high-level meetings during the transition and white house meetings as well during the campaign we know that he met with people including mike flynn and jared kushner and steve bannon and donald trump jr. mr. nader reportedly attending a meeting in which the trump campaign was offered a foreign-run social media manipulation campaign to try to tilt the election in trump s favor. imagine that. the trump campaign says they did not buy what was being offered to them at that meeting, but soon after the election, george nader nevertheless paid money to the firm that had been pitching the campaign that particular service, which has always been a source of intrigue. nobody knows what that payment was for.
this is all from comey s memos with redactions. imagine if we got to fill in all the blanks. trump explained that he has serious reservations about michael flynn s judgment and illustrated from a story in that day in which the president discovered during his toast to theresa may that blank had called four days ago. apparently as the president was toasting prime minister may, he was explaining she had been the first to call him after his inauguration and flynn interrupted to say that, actually, blank had called first. it was then that the president learned of blank s call, and he confronted flynn about it. he said the return call was scheduled for saturday, which prompted a heated reply from president trump that six days was not an appropriate period of time to return a call from the blank of a country like blank. this isn t blank we re talking about, he said. he said if he called blank and didn t get a return call for six days, he would be very upset. i mean, presumably what comey