THE FLYNN MANEUVER
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 24 May 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump and some of his Republican allies on Capitol Hill have pointed to the "unmasking" of Flynn as evidence of a campaign by top members of former President Barack Obama's White House to undermine the incoming administration. However, Michael Flynn was never 'masked' in transcript of calls with Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. Thom gives his take on the backfired GOP blunder to defend Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | So, Lindsey Graham made this big announcement that he was giving to National Security Director |
| 0:25.9 | Richard Grinnell, the super, you know, MAGA hat guy, the new National Security |
| 0:30.9 | guy. All this in for you, we're information, we're gonna unredact |
| 0:34.7 | and release this information, we're gonna get it out |
| 0:36.5 | about unmasking Michael Flynn. |
| 0:41.6 | Oops. Turns out Michael Flynn was never masked. |
| 0:47.0 | His conversations with Kisliak always identified Michael Flynn as the guy having the conversation. |
| 0:53.4 | What Flynn was lying about, it turns out, |
| 0:55.8 | and there's a great piece about this |
| 0:57.4 | by Mark Sumner over at Dailycoes.com. |
| 1:01.1 | It's titled Lindsay Graham's latest effort to embarrass the Obama administration |
| 1:04.5 | backfired spectacularly. What Michael Flynn was lying about, what he lied to |
| 1:10.2 | Mike Pence about, what he lied to the FBI about, well we don't know if he lied to Mike FBI about what he lied to the FBI about well we don't know if he |
| 1:14.0 | lied to Mike Pence or not Trump put that in a tweet is the excuse for firing |
| 1:17.4 | him but what we do know that he died to the FBI about now that this has been |
| 1:21.4 | released was not that he was talking with Kisli Act the |
| 1:25.2 | Russian ambassador they knew that they actually had those transcripts and he |
| 1:29.4 | had he had never been masked in the first place because he was a high-level government official. |
| 1:35.4 | What he was lying about was coordinating it with Maralago, presumably Donald Trump or Don Jr or Jared Kushner probably you know somebody |
| 1:46.6 | they were coordinating this whole hey you know tell the Russians don't get all |
| 1:50.5 | hysterical you know yes Obama put sanctions on but don't react to it. |
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