President Donald Trump is trying to emerge from the situation after the resignation of his adviser for national security, Michael Flynn, which raises questions about the ability of his people gathered around him, but also to the thorny issue of relations Moscow.
Less than a month since taking office and several days after returning back to his judicial decree for Migration, the American president should replace a central character in his cabinet.
Charged his contacts with the Russian ambassador in Washington Sergei Kisljak, former General Flynn was forced to resign.
In his resignation letter, he acknowledged that carelessly chosen Vice cheated, Mike Pence giving incomplete information to telephone conversations with Russian diplomat.
The White House tried today to limit the damage.
Kellyanne Conway, close adviser of Trump switched from a television in another attempt to summarize the issue in access to a counselor.
Former interim Minister of Justice US and Congress have launched separate investigations for possible links between campaign advisers Trump and Moscow.
American secret services so far have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin was also responsible directly interfering in the choice made.
"Flynn resignation may be possible indices of a new series of investigations," said Julian Zelizer, professor at Princeton University, in an editorial published on CNN.
President Trump’s ouster of national security adviser Michael Flynn, and the circumstances leading up to it, have quickly become a major crisis for the fledgling administration, forcing the White House on the defensive and precipitating the first significant breach in relations between Trump and an increasingly restive Republican Congress.
Even as the White House described Trump’s “immediate, decisive” action in demanding Flynn’s resignation late Monday as the end of an unfortunate episode, senior GOP lawmakers were buckling under growing pressure to investigate it.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that it was “highly likely” that the events leading to Flynn’s departure would be added to a broader probe into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election. Intercepts showed that Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions in a phone call with the Russian ambassador — a conversation topic that Flynn first denied and then later said he could not recall.
McConnell’s comments followed White House revelations that Trump was aware “for weeks” that Flynn had misled Vice President Pence and others about the content of his late-December talks with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
White House counsel Donald F. McGahn told Trump in a briefing late last month that Flynn, despite his claims to the contrary, had discussed U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia by the Obama administration in late December, press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday. That briefing, he said, came “immediately” after Sally Q. Yates, then the acting attorney general, informed McGahn on Jan. 26 about discrepancies between intercepts of Kislyak’s phone calls and public statements by Pence and others that there had been no discussion of sanctions.
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