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Both the New York Times and the Washington Post this week featured stories on Trump’s National Security Advisor, Michael T Flynn, and reports claiming Flynn was in contact with Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, prior to Trump’s inauguration.

According to both current and former American officials- in one particular conversation between the two, Flynn essentially urged Kislyak to ignore sanctions that were to be imposed by President Obama in mid December, implying that Trump would reverse them once inaugurated. The sanctions were in response to reports confirming Russia’s tampering in the presidential election, in Trump’s favor.

“Federal officials who have read the transcript of the call were surprised by Mr. Flynn’s comments, since he would have known that American eavesdroppers closely monitor such calls.”

“American eavesdroppers closely monitor the calls.” That statement makes it clear that this information had been in hand prior to Trump’s inauguration, and…

tRump’s main goal is to destroy our way of life.  Regulations be damned, clean air, who needs it!  Same goes for water.  It’s all about how much money he and his cronies are going to make off of the U.S. citizens.

This is a useful record of the extraordinary steps taken by Trump during his first days in office. During the campaign, we learned that it was difficult to react to an outrageous statement because it was quickly succeeded by yet another one. Now, we find that each outrageous executive action is followed by yet another […]

via “Lawyers for the Good” Summarize Trump’s First Week in Office — Diane Ravitch’s blog