Well now we know why Russia was so adamant to get Donald Trump elected.
WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, told a former business associate that economic sanctions against Russia would be “ripped up” as one of the Trump administration’s first acts, according to an account by a whistle-blower made public on Wednesday.
You don’t make a claim like that unless you’re fairly confident that’s The Boss’s plan. Of course, there was something in it for Flynn as well:
Mr. Flynn had worked on a business venture to partner with Russia to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East until June 2016, but remained close with the people involved afterward. On Inauguration Day, according to the whistle-blower, Mr. Flynn texted the former business associate to say that the project was “good to go.”
Yep, “Inauguration Day” would be the right day to send that text. According to the New York Times, and as detailed in the whistle-blower’s correspondence to Congressman Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House’s Oversight Committee, the person who Flynn made this little “disclosure" to then spoke to the unidentified whistleblower.
Loose lips sink...well, you know:
In his letter, Mr. Cummings also said that his staff had been in consultations with Mr. Mueller’s team, which brought the criminal charge against Mr. Flynn. Staffers for the special counsel asked Mr. Cummings not to make the whistle-blower’s account public until “they completed certain investigative steps,” he wrote.
According to the account detailed in the letter, the whistle-blower had a conversation on Inauguration Day with Alex Copson of ACU Strategic Partners, a company that hired Mr. Flynn in 2015 as an adviser to develop a plan to work with Russia to build nuclear power plants throughout the Middle East. Mr. Flynn served as an adviser until June 2016.
Of course the sanctions --which cost Vladimir Putin and his ring of kleptocrats over $100 Billion--would be “ripped up.” That was the deal for dispatching millions of “bots” to distort the American electorate, the deal for Russia coordinating with Wikileaks to release the stolen Hillary emails, and the deal for disseminating anti-Clinton “fake news” stories through eager and willing collaborator organizations and websites like Breitbart and the Drudge Report.
It was all about the money. Of course.