THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY

[HairOfTheDog]

Why would the trump administration want to prevent Sally Yates from giving testimony regarding Mike Flynn and Russia? Anyone care to take a guess?

Damage control. That's my guess

Whether Flynn's breach was major or relatively minor, the White House gave Sally Yates the middle finger when she privately provided them with the Justice Department's concerns/evidence. Then, Yates was out. But, they waited weeks to dump Flynn when it was long clear that his credibility had been shot to hell and his integrity seriously compromised (oh, and most importantly, according to the White House, because he lied to Pence).

The Russia connection has been handled terribly by the White House. If there was no there there..........one meeting with the campaign staff, one public statement putting their cards on the table and explaining the nature of their various meetings with Russian officials before the election..........and the House Intelligence Committee wouldn't keep ending up back at the White House in the course of their Russian interference investigation.

Manafort, Stone, Sessions, Carter Page, and now it's revealed that Jared Kushner met with the head of a sanctioned Russian bank while Trump was on the stump praising Putin and calling for Russia to hack Clinton. Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.