Former Trump advisor Michael Flynn has found himself in hot water thanks to the ongoing Mueller investigation into the Trump administration and Russia connection. Flynn was one of the first scalps the Left took from the administration via the many “leaks” that magically sprung up as part of the Left’s resistance to the president.
He was initially accused of having improper contact with Russian officials, a controversy that ultimately forced him out of the White House. But new revelations from the Mueller investigation are far more serious and could not only take him down, but his son as well.
As reported at the Daily Mail, a Wall Street Journal report claims that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating an alleged plot for Michael Flynn and his son to kidnap a cleric living in the US and deliver him to the Turkish government for $15 million bucks.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared cleric Fethullah Gulen as an enemy of the state and had been pressing the United States to extradite him.
The report claims that FBI agents have asked at least four individuals about a meeting that took place in December, where Flynn and a Turkish government official discussed putting Gulen on a private jet and sending him off to the Turkish prison island of Imrali.
NBC News then reported that investigators are also looking into allegations of a quid pro quo that was discussed at that same meeting, with Flynn being paid to do Turkey’s bidding, while serving as President Trump’s national security advisor, a job he had already been offered.
The meeting was held at New York City’s ’21’ Club, which is close to Trump Tower, where Flynn was working as part of President-elect Trump’s transition team. As of right now, there’s no indication that the $15 million was ever paid out to Flynn.
But the stealing away of Gulen isn’t the only scheme Flynn is being investigated for. Apparently, Mueller is also probing the possibility that during the same meeting, Flynn discussed how to free Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, who is facing federal charges over helping the Iranians evade US sanctions.
The December meeting was a follow-up conversation to a discussion that took place in September between Flynn, Erdogan’s son-in-law, and Turkey’s foreign minister, which was also attended by former CIA Director James Woolsey.
Woolsey told the WSJ in March that the conversation about Gulen was about how to go about getting him to Turkey without going through the formal extradition process.
The Turkish officials mentioned of forcibly removing Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, from the United States, which Woolsey said was “startling,” as he believed such actions would be illegal.
The former CIA head, who had served as a Trump campaign adviser on national security policy, said the talk was hypothetical, but the idea was a “covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away.“
Flynn didn’t try to hide the meeting, as he disclosed the September one to the Justice Department in February as part of his Foreign Agent Registration Act filing.
A spokesman for Flynn, Price Floyd, told the WSJ in March that “at no time did Gen. Flynn discuss any illegal actions, nonjudicial physical removal or any other such activities.”
These are some pretty serious charges, however, it seems that even if they are true, they only went as far as a hypothetical conversation. Still, to throw out such a hypothetical is incredibly dangerous and plain stupid on multiple levels. There’s a good chance that these claims are just the latest smear attempts on Trump associates, but if it turns out they were true, it will add credence to the evidence-less claims that Trump’s been colluding with Russia.
Source: Daily Mail