{"id":96,"date":"2017-02-15T02:11:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-02-15T02:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:25:32","slug":"flynns-activities-while-nsa-must-be-investigated-so-should-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/96","title":{"rendered":"Flynn’s Activities While NSA Must Be Investigated, So Should The White House…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don\u2019t know whether Russian oligarchs own him financially or whether Russian spies own him personally because of alleged indiscreet behavior during his trips to Moscow. But Trump\u2019s willingness to attack allies like Australia, bluster at rivals like China, threaten enemies like Iran and North Korea and bully neighbors like Mexico \u2014 while consistently blowing kisses to Russian President Vladimir Putin \u2014 cannot be explained away by his mere desire to improve relations with Moscow to defeat the Islamic State. And the Flynn ouster gives our government another, desperately needed opportunity to demand the answers to these questions, starting with seeing the president\u2019s tax returns.<\/p>\n

We need to know whom Trump owes and who might own him, and we need to know it now. Save for a few patriotic Republican senators like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, the entire Republican Party is complicit in a shameful act of looking away at Trump\u2019s inexplicable behavior toward Russia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0Thomas L. Friedman<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0made the\u00a0above comments\u00a0in The New York Times <\/em><\/strong><\/a>op-ed pages today. These are concerns that need to be addressed. America deserves answers to the question is the president of the\u00a0United States of America compromised in such a way that it renders him unable to conduct the affairs of the nation\u00a0in a way that\u00a0insures the interests of the nation and American people are properly served?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

With the resignation of Trump’s National Security Advisor republicans have the opportunity, as well as responsibility,\u00a0to begin investigating Flynn’s activity with respect to Russian sanctions. As\u00a0well the White House’s silence on the\u00a0matter\u00a0over the\u00a0past weeks<\/a>. We all know, or should know, what\u00a0the reaction\u00a0of republicans would have been had were the Obama administration and White House\u00a0(or a Hillary Clinton administration) been involved in like circumstances.<\/p>\n

As many republicans grow restive<\/a> over the missteps of the Trump administration this could be the catalyst that was needed to start holding\u00a0Trump and his administration responsible for actions that obviously are questionable.<\/p>\n

Read full op-ed BELOW THE FOLD.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know whether Russian oligarchs own him financially or whether Russian spies own him personally because of alleged indiscreet behavior during his trips to Moscow. But Trump\u2019s willingness to attack allies like Australia, bluster at rivals like China, threaten enemies like Iran and North Korea and bully neighbors like Mexico \u2014 while consistently blowing … Continue reading Flynn’s Activities While NSA Must Be Investigated, So Should The White House…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-1y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/110","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":0},"title":"Where There Is Smoke, There Is Usually Fire…","author":"Les","date":"February 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"CNN is reporting the Trump campaign was involved in extensive communications with the Russians during the 2016 presidential election campaign. 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