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In a series of appearances, Trump’s top domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller demurred when asked about Flynn amid reports that the national security adviser spoke with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Inauguration Day and urged Moscow to show restraint in its response to sanctions implemented by the Obama administration. Those conversations were interpreted by some senior U.S. officials as an inappropriate and potentially illegal overture to the Kremlin.

“I don’t have any news to make you today on this point,” Miller said on ABC’s “This Week” when anchor George Stephanopolous asked about Flynn’s interactions with Kislyak. That prompted Stephanopoulos to ask, “Then why are you coming on if you can’t answer the questions being posed about the White House?”

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when moderator Chuck Todd asked whether Trump still had confidence in Flynn, Miller said he did not know. He said his colleagues at the White House “did not give me anything to say.”
“It’s not for me to tell you what’s in the president’s mind,” Miller told Todd. “That’s a question for the president, that’s a question for our chief of staff.”

Flynn’s contact with Russian officials contradicts past public statements by several top officials, including Vice President Pence, who in a series of television interviews before Inauguration Day acknowledged that Flynn had limited contact with Kislyak late last year, but that the issue of sanctions was never raised.

As much as I hate to say, we have to brace up the moron and let his term finish to maintain the govt as we know it.

number of them (including participants here) who previously expressed strong sentiments against Trump and are now falling in line as a function of tribal allegiance ( you head right towards the 'good German' thing.

Gun-toting flaggots are feverishly at work concocting scary dystopian scenarios where the estimated half-billion privately owned firearms in the USA are somehow "banned" while gangs of young jihadists and Mexicans rampage through suburbia, attacking nursing homes, pulling plugs and stealing drugs.

What's more likely is that some decrepit senior's opioid-addicted grand kid will bust into the house and steal the poor old semi-comatose sod's gun collection. Incompetent, functionally disabled, senescent individuals with lethal weapons represent a threat to themselves and people the around them. And I doubt they could fulfill their obligation to the militia. It's supposed to be "well regulated" not "well medicated".

One of President Trump’s longtime friends made a striking move on Sunday: After talking privately with the president over drinks late Friday, Christopher Ruddy publicly argued that Trump should replace his White House chief of staff.

“A lot of people have been saying, ‘Look, Donald has some problems,’ and I think he realizes that he’s got to make some changes going forward,” Ruddy said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Ruddy went on to detail his critique of White House chief of staff Reince Priebus: “It’s my view that Reince is the problem. I think on paper Reince looked good as the chief of staff — and Donald trusted him — but it’s pretty clear the guy is in way over his head. He’s not knowledgeable of how federal agencies work, how the communications operations work. He botched this whole immigration rollout. This should’ve been a win for Donald, not two or three weeks of negative publicity.”

Ruddy insisted that he was speaking only for himself and not the president, and he would not reveal whether Trump had confided in him about Priebus because the conversation was private.

Sarah Kendzior ‏@sarahkendzior 7h7 hours ago
Sarah Kendzior Retweeted Bruce Stokes
Took George W Bush seven years, two wars, and a hurricane to get to this point. Trump: three weeks.