Media Claims Trump Knew Gen Flynn Was A Foreign Agent, But Ignores John Podesta Is One

[boedicca]

Chris Wallace this morning claims that Michael Flynn has registered as a foreign lobbyist for Turkey and that Trump should have known something about it. The only people that say this is true is fake news purveyors CNN and the like. Maybe they feel they can get score some political points off of the story. But it's a bit strange that they've been looking the other way for the last 8 years and now after months of revelations of Hillary taking massive amounts of cash from foreign countries for speeches, supposedly a fired former employee of Trumps is doing now is worse.

They are just mad that Trump got rid of him before the press found out about it....they are pissed. If Flynn had stayed on till this came out they could have roasted Trump...but Flynn is gone, and it is hard to push this story when Flynn was pushed out weeks ago.........

All of this underscores the quite obvious fact that whatever the Dem-Progs are busy accusing Trump and Conservatives of doing, they either have done themselves or plan to do if they regain power.

Democrats criminalize everything. How dare anyone from the Trump administration talk to foreign diplomats. They must be up to something nefarious.

If they hadn't talked to the Russian diplomats, the Dems would be accusing them of Isolationism.

 

[Moonglow]

Chris Wallace this morning claims that Michael Flynn has registered as a foreign lobbyist for Turkey and that Trump should have known something about it. The only people that say this is true is fake news purveyors CNN and the like. Maybe they feel they can get score some political points off of the story. But it's a bit strange that they've been looking the other way for the last 8 years and now after months of revelations of Hillary taking massive amounts of cash from foreign countries for speeches, supposedly a fired former employee of Trumps is doing now is worse.

They are just mad that Trump got rid of him before the press found out about it....they are pissed. If Flynn had stayed on till this came out they could have roasted Trump...but Flynn is gone, and it is hard to push this story when Flynn was pushed out weeks ago.........

All of this underscores the quite obvious fact that whatever the Dem-Progs are busy accusing Trump and Conservatives of doing, they either have done themselves or plan to do if they regain power.

Democrats criminalize everything. How dare anyone from the Trump administration talk to foreign diplomats. They must be up to something nefarious.

Considering it is illegal if not legalized to do so, yes..

 

[tinydancer]

This begs the question that no one in the media is asking. Why would the Russian government hack John Podesta considering he was working for them?

 

[Moonglow]

This begs the question that no one in the media is asking. Why would the Russian government hack John Podesta considering he was working for them?

To get rid of Hillary, which was going to continue the same sanctions...and political doctrine as Oblama..

 

[tinydancer]

The difference between the Flynn case and the Podesta case is clear and bright. Flynn did not register before his activities with a foreign government and the Podesta group did. The difference between and agent and a lobbyist is that an agent registers an application when they plan on having direct contact with officials of the government being applied for. A lobbyist applies for registration to conduct work for a specific private company(s). The important part of the situations in question is that the Podesta's told the US government, including the FBI, CIA, Defense Dept., DIA, NSA, and every other intelligence or law enforcement agency in the US what they were doing, intending to do, who they were meeting with and when they were meeting with them. That means they availed themselves to briefings and questioning from all those agencies. Flynn on the other hand, kept his business dealing secretive.

Tony Podesta was not registered as a foreign agent.

 

[boedicca]

This begs the question that no one in the media is asking. Why would the Russian government hack John Podesta considering he was working for them?

The DNC and Podesta info was leaked, which is different from hacking.

The Russian Hacker theory serves the same purpose as the Islamic Video Youtube guy - a scapegoat to cover up Dem corruption and incompetence.

 

[Rob37]

Being a "foreign agent" in the form of a lobbyist is a far cry from being what the term "foreign agent" generally connotes.

Good one, MSM. You score extra points for this particular FAKE NEWS.

 

[Eaglewings]

The media is trying to make a big deal about Michael Flynn, who was fired by Trump last month, being a Turkish agent, but totally ignores the fact that Hillary Clintons campaign chairman has been a foreign agent for years.

I guess this is another example of the left telling everyone do as I say, not as I do.

September 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton, the Podesta Group and the Saudi Regime: A Fatal Menage a Trois

by Medea Benjamin

If I told you that Democratic Party lobbyist Tony Podesta, whose brother John Podesta chairs Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, is a registered foreign agent on the Saudi government’s payroll, you’d probably think I was a Trump-thumping, conspiratorial nutcase. But it’s true.

The lobby firm created by both Tony and John Podesta in 1988 receives $140,000 a month from the Saudi government, a government that beheads nonviolent dissidents, uses torture to extract forced confessions, doesn’t allow women to drive, and bombs schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods in neighboring Yemen.

The Podesta Group’s March 2016 filing, required under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, shows that Tony Podesta himself oversees the Saudi account. At the same time, Tony Podesta is also a top campaign contributor and bundler for Hillary Clinton. So while one brother runs the campaign, the other brother funds it with earnings that come, in part, from the Saudis.

John and Tony Podesta have been heavyweights in DC insider politics for decades. John Podesta served as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, founded the influential DC think tank Center for American Progress (which regularly touts Saudi “reforms”), and was counselor to President Obama. Tony Podesta was dubbed by The New York Times as “one of Washington’s biggest players” whose clients “are going to get a blueprint for how to succeed in official Washington.”

The brothers seem to have no problem mixing their roles into the same pot. Tony Podesta held a Clinton campaign fundraiser at his home featuring gourmet Italian food cooked by himself and his brother, the campaign chairman. The fundraiser, by the way, came just days after Tony Podesta filed his Saudi contract with the Justice Department, a contract that included an initial “project fee” payment of $200,000.

The Saudis hired the Podesta Group in 2015 because it was getting hammered in the press over civilian casualties from its airstrikes in Yemen and its crackdown on political dissidents at home, including sentencing blogger Raif Badawi to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes for “insulting Islam.” Since then, Tony Podesta’s fingerprints have been all over Saudi Arabia’s advocacy efforts in Washington DC. When Saudi Arabia executed the prominent nonviolent Shia dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, causing protests throughout the Shia world and inflaming sectarian divisions, The New York Times noted that the Podesta Group provided the newspaper with a Saudi commentator who defended the execution.​

Hillary Clinton, the Podesta Group and the Saudi Regime: A Fatal Menage a Trois​

If Hillary was in office, well you have an argument... She lost, probably because of those issues.

Trump never fired him , and they were not going to do a thing until the truth came out to the public..

. You're point is ridiculous.. Just sayin.

Trump is president and Hillary is not...Why are we even talking about Hillary right now...who cares.

I know many democrats who were not happy with her and the connections she has.. I know my family was...

hypocrisy? double standard? Faux outrage? trying to get liberals dander up who are too stupid to see what their own sides corruption is...

LOL, pointing the finger and not taking responsibility will only keep all of this dysfunction going...

You all are still denying that Bush had anything to do with bringing down America ( actually it was Cheney )

Do you see me talking about Hillary? The democrats know what brought them down...The Failed DNC, and Hillary's past...Along with the fake harping from the right..

/

 

[Wry Catcher]

Chris Wallace this morning claims that Michael Flynn has registered as a foreign lobbyist for Turkey and that Trump should have known something about it. The only people that say this is true is fake news purveyors CNN and the like. Maybe they feel they can get score some political points off of the story. But it's a bit strange that they've been looking the other way for the last 8 years and now after months of revelations of Hillary taking massive amounts of cash from foreign countries for speeches, supposedly a fired former employee of Trumps is doing now is worse.

They are just mad that Trump got rid of him before the press found out about it....they are pissed. If Flynn had stayed on till this came out they could have roasted Trump...but Flynn is gone, and it is hard to push this story when Flynn was pushed out weeks ago.........

All of this underscores the quite obvious fact that whatever the Dem-Progs are busy accusing Trump and Conservatives of doing, they either have done themselves or plan to do if they regain power.

Democrats criminalize everything. How dare anyone from the Trump administration talk to foreign diplomats. They must be up to something nefarious.

Flynn lying to Pence was okay by your moral values? Flynn's meeting may not have been criminal, but is was not transparent! A reasonable person asks questions when such a clandestine meeting takes place. I'm not surprised by your lack of curiosity - no one would ever consider you reasonable.

 

[Eaglewings]

Chris Wallace this morning claims that Michael Flynn has registered as a foreign lobbyist for Turkey and that Trump should have known something about it. The only people that say this is true is fake news purveyors CNN and the like. Maybe they feel they can get score some political points off of the story. But it's a bit strange that they've been looking the other way for the last 8 years and now after months of revelations of Hillary taking massive amounts of cash from foreign countries for speeches, supposedly a fired former employee of Trumps is doing now is worse.

They are just mad that Trump got rid of him before the press found out about it....they are pissed. If Flynn had stayed on till this came out they could have roasted Trump...but Flynn is gone, and it is hard to push this story when Flynn was pushed out weeks ago.........

All of this underscores the quite obvious fact that whatever the Dem-Progs are busy accusing Trump and Conservatives of doing, they either have done themselves or plan to do if they regain power.

Democrats criminalize everything. How dare anyone from the Trump administration talk to foreign diplomats. They must be up to something nefarious.

Mudwhistle, if Hillary were in office I am sure we would be getting slammed about everything just like Obama was..

Flynn was wrong and Sessions lied under oath..

These connections are surfacing about Russia

Roger Stone Admits he has had contact with Russian Hacker today ( Trumps campaign Adviser )

 

[mudwhistle]

Chris Wallace this morning claims that Michael Flynn has registered as a foreign lobbyist for Turkey and that Trump should have known something about it. The only people that say this is true is fake news purveyors CNN and the like. Maybe they feel they can get score some political points off of the story. But it's a bit strange that they've been looking the other way for the last 8 years and now after months of revelations of Hillary taking massive amounts of cash from foreign countries for speeches, supposedly a fired former employee of Trumps is doing now is worse.

They are just mad that Trump got rid of him before the press found out about it....they are pissed. If Flynn had stayed on till this came out they could have roasted Trump...but Flynn is gone, and it is hard to push this story when Flynn was pushed out weeks ago.........

All of this underscores the quite obvious fact that whatever the Dem-Progs are busy accusing Trump and Conservatives of doing, they either have done themselves or plan to do if they regain power.

Democrats criminalize everything. How dare anyone from the Trump administration talk to foreign diplomats. They must be up to something nefarious.

Flynn lying to Pence was okay by your moral values? Flynn's meeting may not have been criminal, but is was not transparent! A reasonable person asks questions when such a clandestine meeting takes place. I'm not surprised by your lack of curiosity - no one would ever consider you reasonable.

Flynn lying to Pence wasn't okay.
Next stupid question.

I'm curious about alot of things. Like why this sort of thing only matters when it's a Republican doing it.

 

[Camp]

The difference between the Flynn case and the Podesta case is clear and bright. Flynn did not register before his activities with a foreign government and the Podesta group did. The difference between and agent and a lobbyist is that an agent registers an application when they plan on having direct contact with officials of the government being applied for. A lobbyist applies for registration to conduct work for a specific private company(s). The important part of the situations in question is that the Podesta's told the US government, including the FBI, CIA, Defense Dept., DIA, NSA, and every other intelligence or law enforcement agency in the US what they were doing, intending to do, who they were meeting with and when they were meeting with them. That means they availed themselves to briefings and questioning from all those agencies. Flynn on the other hand, kept his business dealing secretive.

Tony Podesta was not registered as a foreign agent.

He was registered by name along with the Podesta group as a foreign lobbyist for Sberbank, a privately owned Russian bank.

 

[tinydancer]

How did Flynn working for a Dutch firm owned by a Turkish businessman turn into Flynn working for the Turkish government?

 

[mudwhistle]

Chris Wallace this morning claims that Michael Flynn has registered as a foreign lobbyist for Turkey and that Trump should have known something about it. The only people that say this is true is fake news purveyors CNN and the like. Maybe they feel they can get score some political points off of the story. But it's a bit strange that they've been looking the other way for the last 8 years and now after months of revelations of Hillary taking massive amounts of cash from foreign countries for speeches, supposedly a fired former employee of Trumps is doing now is worse.

They are just mad that Trump got rid of him before the press found out about it....they are pissed. If Flynn had stayed on till this came out they could have roasted Trump...but Flynn is gone, and it is hard to push this story when Flynn was pushed out weeks ago.........

All of this underscores the quite obvious fact that whatever the Dem-Progs are busy accusing Trump and Conservatives of doing, they either have done themselves or plan to do if they regain power.

Democrats criminalize everything. How dare anyone from the Trump administration talk to foreign diplomats. They must be up to something nefarious.

Mudwhistle, if Hillary were in office I am sure we would be getting slammed about everything just like Obama was..

Flynn was wrong and Sessions lied under oath..

These connections are surfacing about Russia

Roger Stone Admits he has had contact with Russian Hacker today ( Trumps campaign Adviser )

Hillary was allowed to run for president even though she was caught committing espionage, and you libs say she did nothing wrong.
However, every Democrat that screams about Trump talking to Russia has talked to Russia themselves. Obama himself was trying to scrap our nukes and made it known to them that he would wait till after he was re-elected to do it. That's about as criminal as you can get.

 

[mudwhistle]

How did Flynn working for a Dutch firm owned by a Turkish businessman turn into Flynn working for the Turkish government?

Well, the accusations only matter, not the details.

 

[Camp]

Chris Wallace this morning claims that Michael Flynn has registered as a foreign lobbyist for Turkey and that Trump should have known something about it. The only people that say this is true is fake news purveyors CNN and the like. Maybe they feel they can get score some political points off of the story. But it's a bit strange that they've been looking the other way for the last 8 years and now after months of revelations of Hillary taking massive amounts of cash from foreign countries for speeches, supposedly a fired former employee of Trumps is doing now is worse.

They are just mad that Trump got rid of him before the press found out about it....they are pissed. If Flynn had stayed on till this came out they could have roasted Trump...but Flynn is gone, and it is hard to push this story when Flynn was pushed out weeks ago.........

All of this underscores the quite obvious fact that whatever the Dem-Progs are busy accusing Trump and Conservatives of doing, they either have done themselves or plan to do if they regain power.

Democrats criminalize everything. How dare anyone from the Trump administration talk to foreign diplomats. They must be up to something nefarious.

Flynn lying to Pence was okay by your moral values? Flynn's meeting may not have been criminal, but is was not transparent! A reasonable person asks questions when such a clandestine meeting takes place. I'm not surprised by your lack of curiosity - no one would ever consider you reasonable.

Flynn lying to Pence wasn't okay.
Next stupid question.

I'm curious about alot of things. Like why this sort of thing only matters when it's a Republican doing it.

"Sort of thing"? Can you give another example of another National Security Advisor to a President that worked for pay for a foreign government and or their officials?

 

[Moonglow]

Flynn wasn't registered,,,,which makes it a no-no....Damn, it's like convincing and brick wall it's made of mud..

 

[Rob37]

Bill Clinton was a "foreign agent" too. Remember when he used to lobby the US government on behalf of Saudi Arabia? Remember when he lobbied the US government in an attempt to allow an Arab company to contract to be in charge of port security on the east coast?


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[tinydancer]

The difference between the Flynn case and the Podesta case is clear and bright. Flynn did not register before his activities with a foreign government and the Podesta group did. The difference between and agent and a lobbyist is that an agent registers an application when they plan on having direct contact with officials of the government being applied for. A lobbyist applies for registration to conduct work for a specific private company(s). The important part of the situations in question is that the Podesta's told the US government, including the FBI, CIA, Defense Dept., DIA, NSA, and every other intelligence or law enforcement agency in the US what they were doing, intending to do, who they were meeting with and when they were meeting with them. That means they availed themselves to briefings and questioning from all those agencies. Flynn on the other hand, kept his business dealing secretive.

Tony Podesta was not registered as a foreign agent.

He was registered by name along with the Podesta group as a foreign lobbyist for Sberbank, a privately owned Russian bank.

VTB and Sberbank hired them. Hypocrisy thy name is liberal. Dems are freaking busted big time.

Cashflow and the Kremlin

Andrei Kostin, head of Russia’s state-run VTB Bank, reaches to his mantelpiece into a thicket of framed pictures of him with President Vladimir Putin and picks out a photo in which he is standing with Hillary Clinton, then US secretary of state. “If you publish this, it could affect her chances to be president! They’re always trying to find the Russian trace,” he jokes. “I don’t have one with Mr Trump, unfortunately.”

Mr Kostin, who talks about his time in the Soviet diplomatic service with a knowing wink, has good reason to follow the US election closely. VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, has seen its plans to become a major player in global finance dashed by US and EU sanctions over the Ukraine conflict in 2014.

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[tinydancer]

Flynn wasn't registered,,,,which makes it a no-no....Damn, it's like convincing and brick wall it's made of mud..

He was registered just not as a foreign agent Ditto freaking Tony Podesta. Podesta group was working for the Russians.

You know. The same people they are trying to nail Trump with having connections.

"From August to November, Flynn Intel had a contract with a Turkish-owned company. For that, Flynn filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. But on Tuesday, the company retroactively re-registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, acknowledging that while the client was a corporation, the party who stood to benefit principally from Flynn's lobbying was the government of Turkey."

Michael Flynn Admits Lobbying May Have Benefited Turkish Government