From sincerity will be ignited

The fact that General Michael Flynn is ready to deal with justice, in the White House guessed, but did not know either the parameters of the transaction or the date when it was concluded. Therefore, the news that appeared on December 1 was a complete surprise to the administration. The press service of the White House canceled the planned presence of the press on the occasion of the visit of Prime Minister Libya and did not conduct a daily briefing, although it was time to trim to fanfares-at night the Senate voted for tax reform.

The general, accompanied by lawyers, appeared in court and answered all questions of the judge monosyllabic - “yes” or “no”. Does he find himself guilty? Yes. Has anyone forced him to conclude a transaction? No. Did he promise him to mitigate the punishment in exchange for cooperation? No. In a statement of guilt, Flynn wrote that he does this for the good of the family and the country.

The former adviser to the president for national security was charged with one point: giving false testimony of the FBI. For this he faces up to five years in prison and a fine of 250 thousand dollars. Under the terms of the agreement with the special prosecutor, the general refuses his right to appeal the sentence. If he evades his obligation to “fully cooperate” with the investigation, the agreement will be terminated and Flynn will be charged with additional charges related to his lobbying activities in favor of Turkey. Robert Müller holds them in reserve precisely for this case.

A criminal case against an employee of the administration of such a rank, albeit the former, is an extraordinary event. This is the central figure of Rashagate. His consent to testify can be the beginning of the gathering of a snow avalanche. No wonder President Trump asked the then director of the FBI James Komi to cover the case, and when he did not obey, he fired him.

Given the long -standing connections of Michael Flynn with Russia, candidate Trump appointed him responsible for relations with Moscow. Therefore, when on December 28 last year, Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak found out that President Obama signed a decree on new sanctions against Russia and the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats as a punishment for interfering in the American elections, he called Flynn.

Trump's team was at that moment on the Christmas holidays: Trump - in his Florida golf club Mar -A -Lesa, his son -in -law and adviser Jared Kushner - in Hawaii, Flynn - in the Dominican Republic. On December 29, when the sanctions were announced, the general and the ambassador called up several times, consulting each with their superiors in the intervals. On this day, for five hours in the afternoon, a telephone meeting was scheduled for the elected president with employees responsible for national security, including Flinn, but if so, the issue of sanctions was discussed on it is unknown.

Flynn asked Moscow to refrain from a tough answer. But on December 30, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation promised to reciprocate and said that the Foreign Ministry had already drawn up and transferred the list of 31 candidates for expulsion at the discretion of the president. The threat, however, lasted less than two hours: President Putin said that he would not "fall to the level of" kitchen ", irresponsible diplomacy" and would not send American diplomats, moreover, he invites their children to a Christmas tree to the Kremlin, and as for bilateral relations, he will build them "based on the policy that the presidential administration D. Trump will conduct."

Donald Trump praised Putin on Twitter for this wise decision: "I always knew that he was very smart!"

Even before the inauguration, information about the telephone conversations of the general and the ambassador fell into the press. First, the press secretary of the elected president, and then the elected vice president, referring to the assurances of Flynn, publicly stated that the sanctions were not talking in these conversations, and the date coincided with a purely by accident. Flynn made inexplicable carelessness, or perhaps arrogance: as a former head of the Pentagon intelligence, he had to know that the phones of the Russian ambassador were on the wiretapping of the FBI. It is more likely, he decided that the FBI would not dare to contradict. But the FBI dared. On the third day after the inauguration, January 23, an FBI agent came to him and asked questions about conversations with Kislyak. Flynn repeated the lie already voiced by others.

This crime is now charged with him. The statement on the admission of guilt signed by Flynn is stated both this lie and actual events.

After the confusion, which lasted several hours, Donald Trump Tymp Tai Cobb published a statement that says that Flynn’s recognition concerns himself only that he worked in the Trump administration for only 25 days and in general he is a former official of the Obama administration.

The Cobb hurried or inattentively read the bailiff. Flynn says that he called the ambassador at the direction of the "high -ranking official" of Trump's transition team. Who is this face?

The New York Times, having made the electronic correspondence of some team members for the dates of interest to us, suggests that this person was Kathleen Troy McFarland - a veteran of American security policy, who worked in the republican administrations of Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and then after a 30 -year break, which suddenly returned to the trampe. McFarland was called "Flynn's brain." Having become an adviser in national security, the general appointed her his first deputy. When already in February, on the 25th day after his appointment, he was forced to leave the post, his successor to General McMaster cost considerable works to push her to second roles, and then get rid of at all - now she expects a statement to the US ambassador in Singapore.

There is no doubt that Donald Trump knows her as an expert at his favorite Fox News television channel. In September 2013, she, for example, claimed that Vladimir Putin worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions in Syria. In March 2014, after the capture of Crimea, she wrote on Twitter:

Putin captures countries. Obama threatens to exclude Russia from the "eight". Putin is now biting your elbows! The history is written by the winners, not the whiner.

In the electronic messages published by NYT, McFarland writes that Obama “drives Trump to the corner” with his sanctions and that it deprives the United States of maneuver in relations with such countries as Iran and Syria, since “Russia is the key to this locked door”.

To top it off the picture, we add that McFarland was next to the president in Mar-A-Lla.

It is unlikely that Vladimir Putin, contrary to the opinion of his minister, would respect Flynn’s personal request, with whom he was barely familiar. In order for the first person to deal with it, the request was to come on behalf of the same level.

December 2, more than a day after the appearance of Flynn in court, President Trump angrily wrote on Twitter:

I fired General Flynn because he lied to vice president and FBI. He admitted to this lie. This is a shame, because his actions in the transition period were legal. There was nothing to hide!

They write that this tweet is agreed with Trump's personal lawyer. If so, then the lawyer provided his client with a bear’s service. In his comments on the resignation of Flynn Trump never mentioned the FBI. The interrogation generally became known three days later, on February 16, from the publication of The Washington Post. The president called Flynn a "beautiful man" who was a little mistaken: it was not worth lying to the vice president, because he, Flynn, "did nothing wrong."

Does the president have the right to enter into negotiations with a foreign power three weeks before taking office? From the point of view of the law, before the inauguration, he remains a private person. If Donald Trump considered himself his right, why does he hide his role? And if the question of the new sanctions and negotiations of Flynn was discussed in the immediate environment of the elected president (but not with him in an amazing way), does this mean that not one Flynn lied, but all the participants in the discussion that the vice president was substituted, used it at all, and when the deceit was found out, made the General of the Kozl of the dismissal?

General Flynn now tells the special prosecutor Müller about all this. The current advisers of Trump's agenda for interrogation are already in their hands.