"I am very happy for General Flynn and for his family and maybe they can now go about rebuilding their lives, and he can go about restoring his fortunes and reclaiming his reputation, McFarland told "The Story" guest host Dana Perino. TRUMP ANNOUNCES 'FULL PARDON' OF MICHAEL FLYNN
"But I like to look at it in even a bigger picture," she added. "Because the effort to go after General Flynn, it wasn't about General Flynn. They came after me, too. It was never about me. It was always about getting Donald Trump. And they made the whole thing up."
Trump's announcement Wednesday concluded a long legal saga brought about by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The prosecution of Flynn came under scrutiny earlier this year after the release of FBI documents that suggested a plot to get him to lie.
McFarland said that while she was happy for her former boss, the corrupt officials who allegedly framed him are "never going to have to answer for what they did to the country."
"Senior officials in the Obama administration and the West Wing and the Justice Department and the FBI and the intelligence community, they knew Mike Flynn didn't commit any crime in talking to the Russian ambassador," she said. "But they pursued it anyway. They made up the whole Russia hoax."
The FBI officials involved in Flynn's case "are never going to be held to account," McFarland emphasized. "They are never going to have to answer for what they did to the country and to the rest ofaz the people. They have collected their 30 pieces of silver and a lot of them, in fact, are joining the Biden administration."
Trump's Justice Department moved to drop its case against Flynn following the release of the bombshell FBI documents, but encountered hurdles in court after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Flynn's plea to force U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to drop his criminal case in August.
The reason, McFarland believes, is because Obama-era officials were hoping to "string it on past the election in hopes that in a Biden administration, they can go back after Flynn. "
Flynn's family released a statement late Wednesday, praising "President Donald J. Trump for answering our prayers and the prayers of a nation by removing the heavy burden of injustice off the shoulders of our brother Michael. We thank President Trump," they wrote, "for recognizing our brother's sacrifice in this battle for truth." Fox News' Lucas Manfredi contributed to this report.
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LET THEM GO AHEAD AND IMPEACH TRUMP.... HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS THEN.....FREE TRUMP COIN
By: Hyram F. Suddfluffel, PhD, (Political Science)
I have a degree in Political Science, and I am a card-carrying Libertarian. I've been studying politics and political history for the past 30 years. My specialty is U.S. Presidents. That said, I hope that the House of Representatives impeaches Trump. Let me tell you what will happen next!
1. The House can pass articles of impeachment over the objections of the
Republicans, and refer to the Senate for trial.
2. The Senate will conduct a trial. There will be a vote, and the Republicans will vote unanimously, along with a small number of Democrats, to not convict the President. Legally, it will all be over at that point.
3. However, during the trial, and this is what no one is thinking about right now, the President's attorneys will have the right to subpoena and question ANYONE THEY WANT.. That is different than the special counsel
investigation, which was very one-sided. So, during the impeachment trial, we will be hearing testimony from James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Donna Brazile, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch,
Christopher Steele, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, and a whole host of other participants in this whole sordid affair and the ensuing cover up activities.
A lot of dirt will be dug up; a lot of truth will be unveiled. Finger pointing will occur. Deals will start being made, and suddenly, a lot of democrats will start being charged and going to prison.
All this, because, remember, the President's team will now, for the first time, have the RIGHT to question all of these people under oath – and they will turn on each other. That is already starting.
4. Lastly, one more thing will happen, the Senate will not convict the President. Nothing will happen to Trump. Most Americans are clueless about political processes, the law, and the Constitution. Most Americans believe
that being impeached results in removal from office. They don't understand that phase 2 is a trial in and by the Senate, where he has zero chance of conviction. Remember, the Senate is controlled by Republicans; they will
determine what testimony is allowed -- and **everything** will be allowed, including: DNC collusion with the Clinton campaign to fix the election in favor of Hillary, the creation of the Trump dossier, the cover up and
destruction of emails that very likely included incriminating information.
They will incriminate each other for lying to the FISA court, for spying and wiretapping the Trump campaign, and for colluding with foreign political actors, especially George Soros. After the Senate declines to convict the
President, we will have an election, and Trump will win.
It will be a backlash against democrat petulance, temper tantrums, hypocrisy and dishonesty. Even minorities will vote for Trump, because, for the first time, they will see that democrats have spent 2+ years focused on maintaining their own power, and not doing anything at all about black murders in Chicago, homelessness, opioids, and other important issues that are actually killing people. And, we will spend the following four years listening to politicians and pundits claim that the whole impeachment was rigged.
'My definition of leadership is leading on climate change'
sounded more like an SNL spoof somebody would do on Obama rather than actual words coming from the leader of the Free World. If it weren't so serious, it would be almost humorous that the Obama considers 'climate change' the key leadership issue, as he told Steve Croft on 60 Minutes October 11 in what was perhaps the first real 'grilling' of Obama by the mainstream media since Obama took office seven years ago. Many have felt that Obama has had a 'free pass' from what many consider the 'left-leaning' mainstream media during his entire presidency. Not so this time - what may be a piece of history, the one and only interview of its kind.
Steve Croft, 60 Minutes First Mainstream Media To Grill Obama, Make Him Squirm
STEVE MALZBERG offers key excerpts of the interview, such as the first clip where Croft questions the $500 million given for training Syrian soldiers which resulted in a total of five being trained.
Other topics that would appear to get under Obama's skin would include:
- Russia's Putin taking over world leadership of the Middle East War in Syria and Iraq.Croft to Obama 'Mr Putin seems to be challenging your leadership ' at which point Obama makes an exagerated grimace. Croft backs his question with a series of facts and figures to which Obama seems to evade with a long, rambling answer.
Says Malzberg, 'Nobody treats Obama this way and gets away with it.' Well, Steve Croft and 60 Minutes did, and probably for the first and last time. Doubt Obama will be back on 60 Minutes anytime soon, if ever.
As to whether that attention will evaporate, the president declines to speculate. "I'll leave it up to the pundits to make that determination," Obama says. "I don't think he'll end up being president of the United States."
At different moments in the interview, the president turns reflective, taking stock of his time in office and eyeing the year ahead. In the unaired clip below, he tells Kroft that, at this point, he's learned to trust his instincts.
"The nice thing about being a veteran in anything is your fear kind of goes away," he says. "There's no doubt I'm better at this job now than I was when I started."
At the end of the interview, Kroft asks Obama if he's glad he can't run for president again. Obama says he feels a mixture of satisfaction at what he's accomplished and a desire to still do more. "But by the time I'm finished, I think it will be time for me to go," he says, adding that new blood in the White House is essential for a healthy democracy.
"Do you think if you ran again, could run again, and did run again, you would be elected?" Kroft asks.
"Yes," says Obama, without missing a beat.
From Breitbart:
A frustrated President Obama reacted angrily to tough questions during an interview aired last night from CBS interviewer Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes.
Regarding Syria and ISIS, Kroft pointed out that it had already been a year since Obama announced military action in the region with little signs of progress.
Obama was dismissive of the notion that it was his job to eliminate ISIS.
“Over time, the community of nations will all get rid of them, and we will be leading getting rid of them,” he said.
When challenged over his failed $500 million training program for fighters in Syria, Obama quickly added that he was “skeptical from the beginning” but that it was important to “try different things.”
As Obama expressed skepticism about multiple theoretical solutions for the Middle East including training or arming Syrian rebels, he remarked that there were no “silver bullets” in Syria.
“I feel like I’m being filibustered Mr. President,” Kroft interrupted.
“No, no, no, no, no. Steve,” Obama replied with a flash of annoyance. “I think if you want to roll back the tape, you’ve been giving me long questions and statements, and now I’m responding to ‘em. So let’s — so — if you ask me big, open-ended questions, expect big, open-ended answers.
When challenged over Putin, Obama dismissed the idea that somehow he was outmaneuvered even though he admitted that intelligence indicated that they knew he would act in Syria.
“He’s challenging your leadership Mr. President,” Kroft said, prompting a strong reaction from Obama.
“Steve, I gotta tell you, if you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we’ve got a different definition of leadership,” he said. “My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an international accord that potentially we’ll get in Paris.”
Obama insisted that his critics would only be content if thousands of American troops and trillions of American dollars would continue to be spent in the region to try to solve the political situation in the Middle East and combat Putin.
After the contentious interview, Kroft informed his viewers that the pair halted the interview for a water break before resuming their conversation.
“What else do you got?” Obama challenged Kroft with a grin as the interview resumed.
Perhaps Obama was surprised by Kroft’s unusual toughness, after years of 60 Minutes interviews where he was allowed to answer questions at his own pace. The most surprising portion of the interview was hearing Kroft repeatedly interrupting the president and pressing him on foreign policy.
A frequent interviewer of the president, Kroft has been mocked by critics for giving Obama softball questions, allowing him to distract from the questions by lengthy responses.
After Kroft sat down with both Hillary Clinton and Obama in 2013 to discuss the nature of their relationship, many journalists marveled at the coziness that Kroft was experiencing with the Obama White House.
The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf called that interview “a performance that ought to earn him a rebuke from his peers in the news business.”
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described that interview as “so soft, so dazzled, so supportive, so embarrassing.”
Other journalists recalled a 2013 interview with Piers Morgan where Kroft admitted that “we’re not going to play ‘gotcha’ with him” and that 60 Minutes was “not going to go out of our way to make him look bad or stupid.” “We’ll let him answer the questions,” he said.
Now that Obama is in the fourth quarter of his presidency, perhaps Kroft decided it was time to turn up the heat. But after last night’s contentious interview, it will be interesting to see if Kroft ever interviews this president again.
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