The servant of two gentlemen

Former US President Donald Trump for National Security, Michael Flynn, led paid lobbying in favor of Turkey. It is reported by The New York Times.

According to the publication, Flynn signed a contract in the amount of 530 thousand dollars and registered as a lobbyist last year. He did not stop this work and being appointed presidential adviser to the post. However, he did not apply for registration as a foreign agent before Tuesday.

Even before the inauguration of Trump Flynn, he wrote an article calling for the United States to develop relations with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In addition, according to NYT, Flynn was engaged in collecting information about the Islamic preacher, Fethullahe Gulen, accused of Ankara in the organization of an attempt to put a background on July 15, 2016.

The official representative of the White House Sean Spicer said that Trump did not know before this week about Flynn's work in the interests of Turkey, reports Reuters. At the same time, Spicer noted that Flynn's lobbying activity was his personal business regarding business. The decision on registration as a foreign agent depended only on him.

In turn, US Vice President Michael Pence said that information about Flynn's lobbying activities confirms that his resignation was a right step.

February 13, Flynn resigned . It turned out that he misinformed the penalty regarding the details of his conversations with the Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak. Journalists found that in the conversations held in December 2016, even before the inauguration of Trump and Pence, issues of American sanctions against Russia were discussed. Flynn, not being an official at that time, did not have the right to affect this topic in a conversation with the Russian ambassador.

When information about the conversations ended up in the media, the American official initially denied that he had discussed the issues of sanctions with Kislyak. However, later a representative of Flynn said that the adviser "does not remember the discussion of sanctions, but cannot be sure that this topic has never been raised." Flynn later said that in conversations with the ambassador he "did not cross the line." "If this happened, the FBI would grab me by the throat, and my admission would be withdrawn. I did not pass any borders," Flynn said.