Federal investigators have gathered enough evidence to bring charges in their investigation of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser and his son as part of the probe into Russia's intervention in the 2016 election, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation.
Michael T. Flynn, who was fired after just 24 days on the job, was one of the first Trump associates to come under scrutiny in the federal probe now led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
Mueller is applying renewed pressure on Flynn following his indictment of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, three sources familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
The investigators are speaking to multiple witnesses in coming days to gain more information surrounding Flynn's lobbying work, including whether he laundered money or lied to federal agents about his overseas contacts, according to three sources familiar with the investigation.
And just to add to the evidence that Flynn was working in cahoots with the Russians, there is also this:
Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn followed five Twitter accounts based out of the Russian-backed “troll factory” in St. Petersburg—and pushed their messages at least three times in the month before the 2016 election.
Over 2,750 troll accounts based out of the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency were made public by House investigators on Wednesday. The accounts, some of which had previously been identified by The Daily Beast as Russian-generated, were pulled from Twitter due to their ties to the troll factory over the past three months.
The Daily Beast had previously discovered Flynn, Donald Trump Jr., Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, and Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale retweeted Ten_GOP several times in the month before the election.
We cannot possibly be surprised by this as I think most of us have known that Flynn is guilty, guilty, guilty for some time now.
I think the only thing that remotely surprises me is that he was not the first one indicted.
But this also likely means that after Mueller has rounded up the obvious suspects, he then shifts his attention to the persons of interest that are closest to Trump's inner circle.
So is this when Trump fires Jeff Sessions and appoints an Attorney General that will allow him to get rid of Robert Mueller? Possibly."Paper trail leads directly back to Mike Pence—proof Pence knew Michael Flynn was a Russian agent" @Funder on #AMJoy https://t.co/mK7L0yJI2Y— Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 5, 2017
And Mitch McConnell does not appear at all interested in keeping that from happening.
Courtesy of Politico:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday that special counsel Robert Mueller is not in need of congressional protection from President Donald Trump.
"I don’t hear much pressure to pass anything," McConnell told MSNBC's Hugh Hewitt. "There’s been no indication that the President or the White House are not cooperating with the special counsel."
McConnell added, "I think the view up here is let him do his job."
Senators on both sides are submitting bills to protect the Mueller investigation and Yertle the Turtle just sits on his hands and does nothing.
If I were a cynical person I might think that the fix was in.
By the way according to a former adviser to Vladimir Putin, he believes he was responsible for Trump's victory, even if the Republicans do not:
It’s really difficult to understand what was the level of Putin’s involvement or blessing in that. After November, after Trump was elected, the situation changed. Now Putin understands, or he believed at least, that he was strong. I don’t know who believed in America that Putin elected Trump, but Putin believed that. Putin believed that, and that has become a political factor.
So yes, Robert Mueller and his investigation need to be protected, because as they say on the X-Files, "The truth is out there."
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