US President Trump – as I speculated yesterday he might do – has signalled today that a leak investigation will be launched to track down and punish the leakers from within the US intelligence community who have been working overtime since before he was elected to undermine and delegitimise him.
Reuters is reporting that President Trump has offered Vice-Admiral Bob Hayward the post of National Security Adviser in place of the ousted General Michael Flynn.
Andrew Korybko
21st Century Wire
The global media is awash with analysis and speculation about the resignation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, with everyone trying to make sense of what happened, why it occurred, and what it means for the future of the Trump Presidency and US-Russian relations more broadly.
Did Trump blink in the face of a soft coup against an elected American government? By John Chuckman | Aletho News | February 15, 2017 On first hearing, the resignation of Michael Flynn seemed less consequential than it did after a little reflection. After all, appointed officials do get let go, and Donald Trump made […]
Michael Flynn’s extraordinary resignation, less than a month after Donald Trump took office has shocked the political establishment in the US. But what are the wider implications for the US and wider world?
1. Trump’s War Against MSM and The Deep State Will Continue
The proximate cause leading to Flynn’s resignation were anonymous leaks given to msm, including the stridently anti-Trump Washington Post. If anything, Trump who has made his disdain for mainstream media abundantly clear, will now be all the more vociferous in his attacks on the old guard.
President Trump is so despised by progressives that many are rallying behind neocon-driven demands for a New McCarthyism to silence those who object to a costly and dangerous New Cold War, as Sam Husseini describes. By Sam Husseini Many liberals…Read more →
Nunes: Masterminding the GOP PutinGate coverupDevin Nunes' Central Valley House seat is pretty safely Republican-- but not nearly as safe as it was when he was first elected in 2002. The PVI is still rated a daunting R+10 but the demographics have shifted precipitously. Only 41.9% of Nunes' constituents are white now and one day-- who knows?-- the DCCC might decide to target him. They should. Nunes shouldn't be given any more free rides.
Michael Flynn sits in the front row before the start of the President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joint new conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
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Michael Savage told WND, ahead of his nationally syndicated radio show, “The Savage Nation”, on Tuesday, that General Michael Flynn had been the “scapegoat” in what is an entrenched Washington establishment addiction to “perennial friction with Russia.”
Savage noted…
It takes little these days for the darkened air of the Kremlin to have an impact on the politics of other countries. Across continents, it has become a tenured dark eminence with President Vladimir Putin on his irrepressible steed: Where will it strike next? His impact is often alleged, it is almost never quantifiable, but the influence, after a time,[Read More...]
