Uh...THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT COLLUSION LOOKS LIKE. Flynn is telling Kislyak -- in secret -- not to take the predictable retaliatory step because then they will be "boxed in" and unable to *publicly* do what they *privately* want to. 1/ https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1266473641459531782">https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/...
I& #39;ll add -- as I have said before -- that this was NOT "in the interests of the United States." Why? Because at most, Putin might have, at the time, done a "tit-for-tat" (30 expulsions), or maybe escalated it, as Flynn believes (60 expulsions)...but what ended up happening? 2/
After giving these reassurances, and encouraging Putin to lose face diplomatically (by not doing anything), Trump wasn& #39;t able to stop *further* sanctions the following summer. What did Putin do? He expelled *775* diplomats. That was a big finger back to the Flynn "promise" 3/
If you& #39;ll recall, Trump (who had tried to slow-roll the sanctions in the first place) then took his licking from Pooty, as usual -- claiming that the expulsions were a good thing for the U.S. because they were costing the U.S. too much money. ?! 4/
P.S. Not for nothing but it looks to me like Flynn couldn& #39;t care less that Russia attacked us and appears to believe that it was unreasonable to be punishing them at all. Huh. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face" aria-label="Emoji: Thinking face">
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