"Put the president"

Michael Flynn, President Trump's Assistance Assistant , announced a resignation on Monday late in the evening . President Trump did not respond to this news, but the White House handed over the resignation press signed by Flynn, in which he apologizes for the unintentional misleading of the Trump administration regarding his telephone conversation with the Russian ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak. “I sincerely apologized to the president and vice president, and they accepted my apologies,” the Flynn statement said. According to the American media, the future of Michael Flynn was discussed in the White House for the last days.

A telephone conversation with the Russian ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak ultimately cost the work of the US presidential assistant Michael Flynn. The three leading American newspapers came out with articles in which, with references to numerous sources in the President of Trump, it is said that Michael Flynn’s stay as an assistant president on national security issues is in question-in fact, due to the fact that he incorrectly informed the Vice President of his telephone conversation with Russia's ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyakom.

The conversation of Kislyak and Flynn took place on December 29, on the day when the Barack Obama administration announced the imposition of sanctions against Russian intelligence services and their leaders for organizing cyber operations against American political parties during the US presidential campaign. Information about this telephone conversation soon appeared in the press, causing, at best, bewilderment. The American press immediately unanimously demanded that the future adviser on national security answer the question of whether he discussed American sanctions with the Russian ambassador.

Flynn has taken a circular defense since the investigation began about the fact that he said to Russia's ambassador about the abolition of sanctions

In response to the requests of the press and the issues of critical lawmakers, the decisive “no” followed from the lips of Michael Flynn himself, and from the lips of Michael Pence, who spoke on behalf of the administration. However, last Thursday, The Washington Post came out with an article , from which it followed that the American special services listened to the telephone conversations of Russia's ambassador, including the conversation of Flynn and Kislyak, during which the future assistant to the president also touched the topic of sanctions. According to the sources of the newspaper, the sanctions were a glimpse, there were no promises to the Russian ambassador, but the exposure of The Washington Post issued the administration of Donald Trump and Vice President Michael Pence in an ambiguous light.

According to The New York Times, "Michael Flynn has taken a circular defense since the investigation began regarding the fact that he told Russia's ambassador to cancel the sanctions" against Russia. The Wall Street Journal has published a large article that states that the White House is considering whether Michael Flynn to preserve the presidential assistant in national security, despite the fact that he, according to people familiar with the situation, apologized to Vice President Michael Pensu and his colleagues from President Trump. But these data were dated Monday morning.

In recent days, the highest representatives of the Trump administration went away from the answer to the question whether the president continues to completely trust Michael Flynn

Closer in the evening, The Washington Post inflicted, perhaps, a decisive blow to Michael Flynn, publishing an extensive article that the former head of the Ministry of Justice, before her dismissal, handed over to one of the closest advisers to President Trump a warning with a warning that, firstly, Flinn did not report all the details of the White House about his conversation with his conversation with his conversation with Kislyak, secondly, that, according to the heads of the American special services, the assistant to the president in national security put himself "in a compromising position."

The newspapers noticed that in recent days, the highest representatives of the administration went away from the answer to the question whether the president continues to completely trust Michael Flynn. The non -replacing attention to his conversation with the Russian ambassador was an increasingly serious problem for the administration.

According to Jeffrey Mankoff , a leading researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, this story, at least, indicates that the Donald Trump administration still acts in confusion:

The fact that Trump refrained from all criticism of Michael Flynn gives reason to assume that this was not his pure amateur performance

- This indicates at least the absence of a clear leadership system in the new administration. Vice President Pence clearly did not know about the details of Flinn’s conversation with Kislyak and publicly denied the assumption that during this call, sanctions against the Kremlin were discussed. In a broader sense, this gives reasons for raising questions about the nature of these contacts and how President Trump applies to this. In my opinion, the fact that the president refrained from all criticism against Michael Flynn gives reason to assume that this was not Flynn's pure amateur performances. In any case, it was an extremely unsuccessful step by the closest adviser to Donald Trump, who still looked like an attempt to undermine the policy of the Barack Obama administration, who was in power at the time of this conversation.

- Can this story be reflected in the future of the Russian policy of the administration, say, to make it difficult to fulfill the task of improving relations with Russia, which is believed to have set by President Trump?

The pressure will increase if the Donald Trump administration really tries to carry out a kind of discharge in relations with Moscow

- I do not know, because the president and his environment are not very paying attention to the political consequences of his steps. If they are ready to step over serious resistance in the Congress, opponents in the press, they can withstand the line to improve relations with Russia. If we were dealing with the traditional administration, I would answer this question in the affirmative: yes, any presidential administration would very seriously think whether it is worth showing flexibility in the face of such hard pressure, is it not better not to take steps that will surely strengthen this pressure. I suspect that this pressure will increase if the Donald Trump administration really tries to carry out a kind of discharge in relations with Moscow, ”says Jeffrey Mankof.

Michael Flynn became a victim of a political confrontation in Washington, said an American military expert, vice president of the Lexington Institute in Virginia Daniel Gure :

- Flynn has more enemies in Washington than friends. He is considered a difficult person in communication, he was among the very first representatives of the establishment that supported Donald Trump-Candidate, and thereby brought the indignation of many not only among commentators of close democratic publications, congressmen-democrats, but also conservatives who did not like his views. Attacking him, figuratively speaking, they will aim at President Trump.

- Nevertheless, his telephone conversation with the Russian ambassador on the day of the introduction of new sanctions, and then the denial of the fact that he discussed sanctions with the representative of the Kremlin, would seem to give reasons for serious concerns to the critics of the Trump administration?

By and large, he did not commit anything illegal, but he put his act under the president

- I think it was a passing conversation. Flynn most likely did not attach much importance to him. This is a much simpler and more plausible explanation of what happened than complex conspiracy theories. Then, realizing his oversight, he tried to hide some details of this conversation. As far as I understand, by and large, he did not commit anything illegal, but with his act he put the president, and this can be a deadly misconduct in Washington.

-Flynn resigned against the backdrop of suspicions that he acted in favor of the abolition of sanctions, and this version is confirmed by the words of Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov that Michael Flynn did not discuss the abolition of sanctions with Sergey Kislyak. Will Donald Trump be more difficult to loosen the sanctions regime if he really wants to do this?

- This makes it difficult to task. Such stories add opponents the idea of canceling sanctions. I assume that he will lose a significant number of legislators from his own party if he tries to do this. All this will direct the American-Russian relations in a much more winding channel than it could be. The irony of the situation, in my opinion, is that an attempt to open preliminary communication lines between the new administration and the Russian authorities gave an extremely unpleasant return for both sides, ”says Daniel Gure.