"Partially misinformed" the White House

What is known about the resignation of adviser Trump, who was suspected of special ties with Moscow

The presidential adviser to National Security Michael Flynn, whom Trump's opponents suspected of special relations with Moscow, resigned. The general admitted that the White House “partially misinformed”.

In particular, Flynn hid something, informing Vice President Mike Pence on the content of his telephone conversation with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, who was at the end of December, even before the inauguration of Donald Trump. Initially, Flynn stated that the sanctions imposed by Obama after the “hacker scandal” were not discussed in an interview with the ambassador. Vice President Pence in a television interview, and even earlier at a briefing, a press secretary of the White House Sean Spicer, announced this publicly. Meanwhile, the special services, who listened to the conversation, found that the presidential adviser to national security told a lie. The scandal became known thanks to the “fourth power” - the press.

Having worked as only 24 days in the post, Flynn filed a petition for a resignation, Trump accepted it. The adviser now says that it was unintentional, “due to the quick change of events” (many telephone conversations with representatives of different countries in a short period of time), he presented the authorities “incomplete information” about the details of the conversation with the Russian Ambassador. Flynn asked for forgiveness from Trump and Pence. The temporarily acting as an adviser on national security was appointed Lieutenant General Kit Kellogg. But the favorite for this post in the White House is called Vice Admiral Robert Harvard, a specialist in combating terrorism, who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another candidate is the former head of the CIA David Petreus, also a combat general in the past.

As the newspaper Washington Post notes, the president must thank the sky for the fact that his one -party people - Republicans have the majority in both chambers of Congress. Otherwise, the new administration would inevitably have a parliamentary investigation - by the type of the one that the lawmakers arranged by Hillary Clinton in connection with the death of the American ambassador in Libya.

Flynn not only talked with the ambassador of Russia, but also, according to the former acting Prosecutor General Sally Yats could become the Kremlin's “blackmail”. In the last days of the worknitivity of Obama, the head of special services: James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence and John Brennan, the head of the CIA, reported the contents of the conversation between Flynn and the Russian ambassador of the temporarily acting head of the Ministry of Justice, and Yates recommended that they inform the Trump team. The Russian side was assumed in the US Ministry of Justice, can blackmail the general and put pressure on him in the future, because he hid important details of the conversation from his superiors. Yets was later dismissed by Trump for refusing to provide the Ministry of Justice’s lawyers to protect his migration decree in court (the president accused her “of treason”).

According to Washington Post, the director of the FBI James Komi was initially opposed to informing the White House, because this could violate the course of the investigation that the Bureau opened with respect to Flynn’s connections with Russian representatives. The press secretary of the White House Sean Spicer at a press confrontation on January 23, answering the question of the conversation of Trump's adviser with the Russian ambassador, called the four topics of the conversation: the aircraft catastrophe with artists of the Russian military ensemble over the Black Sea, Congratulations on Christmas, negotiations on Syria, and the organization of a telephone call between Putin and Trump. At the same time, he did not mention the sanctions in a word. Persistent acting The Prosecutor General again called the FBI director, he removed his objections. Yates spoke about the problems of General Flynn to adviser Trump Donald McGan - the former legal consultant of his election headquarters.

It turns out that the White House in advance, as early as January 26, knew about Flynn's “insincerity or forgetfulness”, but Trump, who in his television past was famous for the hard phrase: “You are dismissed”, kept silence for 18 days.

If General Flynn really told Object Kislyak about a possible change in the position of the administration for sanctions, he violated the so -called act of Logan from 1799, which prohibits individuals to discuss foreign policy issues with official representatives of foreign countries. However, under this article, no one has never been condemned. As former officials of the Obama administration and the present - Trump, Flynn allegedly called on the Russian side not to take sharp retaliatory steps to sanctions, making it clear that they could be revised, and an excessive reaction would complicate the future cooperation. As the American media noted, Flynn left, first of all, due to the fact that, calling a spade a spade, he “set up” the vice president of the Pence and the entire administration, and not because he violated the protocol and the law adopted in the 18th century. By the way, in Moscow, spokeswoman Peskov also stated that anti-Russian sanctions in the conversations of Flynn and the Russian ambassador were not discussed.

A few hours after the “voluntary” resignation of adviser Trump, the concept has changed. According to Spicier, the president, the president was thinking about what to do with Flynn daily, and in the end decided that he did not violate the law, but earned the rest, losing confidence. At the same time, Trump’s spokeswoman was followed by an unprecedentedly tough statement regarding the Kremlin. “President Trump made it very clear that he was expecting a de -escalation of violence in Ukraine and the return of Crimea from the Russian government,” Spicer said, commenting on the dismissal of adviser Trump. “The irony is that Trump is incredibly tough with Russia. He continues to touch the problems of Crimea, which the previous administration allowed Russia to capture, ”the White House spokesman said. He recalled how Nickei Haley made a condemnation of Russia's actions in Ukraine, appointed by Trump to the UN Permanent Representative. At the same time, the White House spokesman emphasized that Trump expects to maintain good relations with Russia.

In the past, Michael Flynn headed army intelligence. He was fired from his post in 2014. The three -star general then said that he was removed, because he asked the Obama team uncomfortable questions regarding her approach to the fight against Islamic terrorism. In turn, Obama’s people spoke about Flynne as a “stability, obsessive, bad manager”. In 2015, the general unexpectedly “lit up” in Moscow at the festival of RT channel at the same table with Putin, on the right hand. It is reported that he even received a fee for a lecture in Moscow. Later, Flynn became one of the two hundred military commanders, who, according to Donald Trump, completely supported his candidacy from the very beginning of the presidential campaign.

Those who are looking for a Russian trace in the Trump team, these days, recall that before the resigner of the National Security Advisor Flynn and even before the election, the head of Trump was left by the head of the election headquarters Paul Manafort, accused of relations with pro -Russian politicians in Ukraine and Russian business. Even earlier, Carter Page Carter - the FBI, checked his possible ties with prominent representatives of the Russian energy business, and the team of the republican candidate denied that Trump was generally familiar with Page.

The resignation of Flynn caused the turbulent comments of American lawmakers. Senator John McCain, who is called “Russophobe” in the Kremlin in Washington, “Hawk” (he considers himself “real friend of Russia”), ensures that Obama’s decree on sanctions receive the status of a legislative act, and all the rumors and reports of the Kremlin’s intervention in the American elections would be investigated by the parliamentary commission. The California congressman, Adam Schif, who heads the party faction in the intelligence committee, said that the resignation of Flynn does not remove the need for a further investigation of his Russian ties. The congressmen, John Koners and Elijah Cummings, in a joint statement, demand to find out “who else in the White House poses a threat to national security.”