TRUMP'S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, MICHAEL FLYNN,
IS NOW SETTING UP A LEGAL DEFENSE FUND BECAUSE THE LEGAL
BILLS PERTAINING TO THE INVESTIGATION HE'S FACING, NOT
JUST BY SPECIAL COUNSEL MUELLER BUT ALSO BY THE PENTAGON, HAVE
BECOME SO EXPENSIVE THAT HE NEEDS HELP PAYING THE BILLS.
HIS
SIBLINGS SAY THE COSTS HAVE PLACED A TREMENDOUS FINANCIAL
BURDEN ON OUR FAMILY, AND ARE BECOMING MORE THAN MICHAEL CAN
AFFORD.
THEY MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTING
DONATIONS FROM ANONYMOUS INDIVIDUALS OR FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS OR FOREIGN INDIVIDUALS, WHICH IS HILARIOUS
BECAUSE THE WHOLE REASON HE'S IN THIS MESS IS BECAUSE HE WORKED
FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES, RECEIVED FOREIGN PAYMENTS, AND THEN
FAILED TO DISCLOSE THOSE PAYMENTS.
LET'S GO TO GRAPHIC 9
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JUST TO GIVE YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT OF A REFRESHER IN
TERMS OF WHY MICHAEL FLYNN IS IN SO MUCH TROUBLE, I WENT BACK AND
LOOKED AT ALL THE DIFFERENT ISSUES WITH FUNDS THE ACCEPTED
FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.
FIRST OF ALL HE WAS PAID MORE THAN
$65,000 BY COMPANIES CONNECTED TO RUSSIA IN 2015 ALONE, THIS
WAS ALL PART OF A COMPANY HE OWNED KNOWN AS FLYNN INTEL GROUP
INC, ALONG WITH HIS SON BY THE WAY WHO IS ALSO PART OF THIS
INVESTIGATION --
65,000,
JUST INTERRUPT, MICHAEL FLYNN, THAT'S NOT A LOT OF MONEY.
THERE ARE BIGGER NUMBERS COMING.
KEEP LISTENING.
THESE ARE PAYMENTS HE RECEIVED BUT DIDN'T DISCLOSE.
THAT THE PROBLEM, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU GO THROUGH
CONFIRMATION HEARINGS.
YOU PERJURE YOURSELF BY NOT DOING THAT.
IT WAS SUCH A BIG PROBLEM THAT THEY DUMPED MICHAEL FLYNN.
THIS
ADMINISTRATION DOESN'T DUMP ANYONE FOR WORKING THE EDGES, IF
YOU WANT TO BE KIND -- THAT THEY DUMPED HIM -- PLEASE CONTINUE.
HE RECEIVED FUNDS FROM A COMPANY LINKED TO THE TURKISH
GOVERNMENT AND WROTE A PRO ERDOGAN PIECE.
HE INITIALLY WAS
CRITICAL OF ERDOGAN, TURKEY WAS MUCH MORE SECULAR, PEOPLE SAY,
HE STARTS PUSHING FOR MORE ISLAMIST POLICIES -- HE WAS
CRITICAL OF ERDOGAN BEFORE, THEN HE STARTS RECEIVING MONEY FROM
THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT, AND SINCE WE HAVE TO RESPECT
ERDOGAN, WE HAVE TO GO AGAINST HIS OPPONENTS.
FLYNN ALSO
RECEIVED $530,000 IN SIMILAR LOBBYING WORK PRIOR TO THE
ELECTION HE DIDN'T DISCLOSE, THIS WAS LOBBYING WORK FOR OTHER
GOVERNMENTS, NOT THE U.S., HE WAS ALSO PAID TO GIVE A TALK AT
AN RT GALA, THAT'S RUSSIA TODAY, HE DIDN'T DISCLOSE THAT PAYMENT
WHEN APPLYING FOR SECURITY CLEARANCE, WHICH IS SOMETHING
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO BY LAW.
SO HE BROKE ALL THESE LAWS BASED ON
WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR, OBVIOUSLY HE HASN'T BEEN CONVICTED OF
ANYTHING YET, AND I FIND IT FUNNY, ESPECIALLY IF YOU THINK
BACK TO THE RNC AND THIS SPEECH HE GAVE --
LOCK HER UP, THAT'S RIGHT.
LOCK HER UP.
I'M GOING TO TELL
YOU WHAT, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE.
LOCK HER UP.
YOU GUYS ARE GOOD.
DAMN RIGHT.
EXACTLY RIGHT.
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
YOU KNOW WHY WE ARE SAYING THAT?
WE ARE SAYING THAT BECAUSE IF I,
A GUY WHO KNOWS THIS BUSINESS, IF I DID A TENTH OF WHAT
SHE DID, I'D BE IN JAIL TODAY.
WHAT ABOUT TIMES 10?
WHAT WOULD IT BE THEN?
AND THE VITRIOL, THAT IS WHAT STRIKES ME, IN ADDITION TO IT
BEING MANIFESTLY UNTRUE, HE KNOWS WHAT THE HELL HE'S DOING,
BUT THE VITRIOL, THAT HATE THAT WE SAW ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL,
THERE IT WAS.
HE CRANKED THE BURNER UP TO HIGH.
HE DID, AND IN RETROSPECT, OBVIOUSLY YOU WATCH THAT SPEECH
AND IT'S SUCH A CLEAR EXAMPLE OF PROJECTION.
TO SAY LOCK HER UP
WHEN YOU YOURSELF -- HE HAD TO REGISTER AS A FOREIGN AGENT, YOU
ARE RECEIVING MONEY FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND YOU ARE ALLOWING
THAT INFLUENCE TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU WRITE YOUR OP-EDS, TO
INFLUENCE AMERICAN POLITICS BASED ON THE MONEY YOU ARE
RECEIVING FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, THAT'S AN ISSUE.
WHEN I SAY HE BROKE THESE LAWS I SHOULD HAVE SAID ALLEGEDLY,
AGAIN HE HASN'T BEEN CONVICTED OF ANYTHING, BUT BASED ON
WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD.
IT HASN'T LOOK GOOD FOR A WHILE.
I'VE SEEN A LOT OF
CONVENTION SPEECHES IN MY DULL LIFE, AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT WAS
ONE OF THE MOST JARRING SPEECHES.
WE WERE THERE -- WERE
YOU THERE?
I WASN'T, I WAS JUST WATCHING.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT SPEECH.
AND NOW I LOVE WATCHING
WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE CAUGHT FOR BEING EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE.
I
THINK SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN WHERE THEY WILL LOCK HIM UP AND
WE WILL PLAY THAT AND IT'S JUST GOING TO BE A JOY.
IT IS FRAUD, HYPOCRISY -- THE QUESTION OF LOCKING HIM UP, HE
COULD MAKE SOME SORT OF PLEA AGREEMENT, OF COURSE.
I STILL
THINK WOULDN'T THE PRESIDENT INTERCEDE TO MAKE SURE HE
DOESN'T GET LOCKED UP?
YOU CAN'T INTERCEDE UNTIL THERE'S SOMETHING UPON WHICH TO
INTERCEDE.
BUT YOU WOULD -- IT DEPENDS, WOULD THE PRESIDENT
INTERCEDE?
NOT IF THE WAY FLYNN GETS OUT OF THIS IS IF FLYNN
TALKS TO MUELLER ABOUT WHAT THE PRESIDENT DID OR DIDN'T DO.
THE
PRESIDENT MIGHT NOT WANT TO INTERCEDE.
FLYNN SUGGESTED HE WOULD COOPERATE AND DISCLOSE DETAILS
INVESTIGATORS WANTED TO KNOW IF HE WAS GRANTED FULL IMMUNITY,
THEY REFUSED, SO OBVIOUSLY THINGS ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT AS
A RESULT.
BUT WHAT I ALSO FIND INTERESTING IS HE CONTINUES TO
PLEAD THE FIFTH.
HE REFUSES TO TESTIFY, REFUSES TO GIVE ANY
STATEMENTS, AND COOPERATE WITH THE INVESTIGATION.
BUT MUELLER HAS FOUND WAYS AROUND THAT.
IT'S CLOSING IN ON MICHAEL FLYNN.
HE'S GOT A TRAIL OF CHECKS FROM FOUR GOVERNMENTS, THAT
ALONE WOULD ENCIRCLE HIM AND PUT HIM IN REAL JEOPARDY LEGALLY.