Trump to meet with 4 possible candidates for national security adviser
The reality is that the resignation of the ephemeral Flynn is not enough to contain the scandal. But the way he went about it was absolutely wrong.
“There is no demand by President Trump on any candidate for NSA Director at all”, Priebus told Fox News Sunday.
The Russian connection that Trump attempts to downplay could be more serious than many people think, despite President Trump’s assertion that he has no business or personal contacts in Russia and as far as he knows of, no one else on his team does either.
Big rowdy rallies were the hallmark of Trump’s presidential campaign. Mr Flynn previously had denied that he had any substantive conversations with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, and Pence repeated that claim in television interviews as recently as this month.
Flynn had won – short term.
Some critics contend that any discussion of sanctions with Russian officials would have been a felony under the Logan Act, which prohibits citizens from freelancing on foreign policy to prevent them from undermining the policies of an incumbent president. So soon the FBI was investigating Flynn.
Sources close to retired Gen. David Petraeus say the White House eliminated the former Central Intelligence Agency director from consideration for the open national security adviser post after he weighed in on the job during a conference in Germany this week.
“His bond with his supporters is really like nothing I’ve ever seen”, said Wood.
But that didn’t happen.
The White House initially had hoped to have a replacement for Flynn by Friday. And then he compounded his problem because of another flaw he and Trump share. Gen. Michael Flynn did not call Russian Federation without being told to. It appears that he wasn’t the only one who lied to Mike Pence.
Trump also maintains a residence in New York City, where his wife and youngest son Barron reside, and another in Bedminster, New Jersey, among several others.
Last weekend, Trump was joined by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whom he both golf with and addressed North Korea’s recent missile launch, at least partially in front of the resort’s diners. Donald Trump apparently can’t even tell the truth to his own vice president.
The event Saturday is being put on by Trump’s campaign, rather than the White House. So were the others Flynn had lied to.
Nevertheless, Bolton is not yet a lock for the national security adviser job. Trump’s staff is becoming famous for their disreputable behavior and for starting a war in many ways on the press. When I thought things couldn’t get worse, I was unpleasantly surprised.
And all this was leaked, Trump explained, because unnamed people are “trying to cover-up” for a “very bad” Election Day loss by the Democrats.