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Mueller looking into Flynn's work on documentary targeting Turkish cleric: report

Michael Flynn was paid $500k to work on a "documentary" attacking Gulen, the Turkish government's big target here in the U.S. If this is correct Flynn actively tried to conceal his role in it. This is new, and I think it probably will be good for one or more additional FARA violations.


"Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is reportedly preparing to interview people hired by former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn to work on an unfinished documentary financed by Turkish interests.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Mueller's team of investigators are looking into Flynn's work on the film attacking Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the Turkish government has blamed for a failed 2016 coup.

According to the Journal, the film was at the center of Flynn's work on behalf of Turkish interests while he also served as a top adviser to President Trump's 2016 election campaign.

Mueller is also investigating Flynn his son's involvement in an alleged plot to forcibly remove Gulen from his home in Pennsylvania and return him to Turkey. Gulen has denied any involvement in the coup attempt.

One freelance journalist hired to film interviews for the unfinished film project, David Enders, said that Flynn's consulting group, the Flynn Intel Group, tried to hide its involvement in the documentary. He said Flynn's business partner, Bijan Kian, told him that they did not want anyone to know that the consulting firm was working on the film.

“He said: ‘We don’t want anyone to know the Flynn Intel Group has anything to do with this,’" Enders told the Journal earlier this year.

 

Too late. They're already racist traitors who love licking the bootheel. Fuck their repudiations. If the country can't come together to outvote them, then it's too late anyway.

 

Godwin said it was ok to use Nazis in the current environment. Literally.

The creator of Godwin’s Law explains why some Nazi comparisons don’t break his famous Internet rule

 

Well, shit, I was trying to post something that isn't perverted.

 

I don't blame you for posting them. But damn will the media never get tired of writing them.

 

First, questioning whether someone is a Nazi apologist in the context of a discussion about a neo-Nazi rally doesn’t approach the Godwin’s law meme as I understand it. Second, you’re the one who continues to bring it up outside that context (as you were tonight) , so I’m beginning to think you’re kind of proud of it.

 

That's from 538, the folks who "so accurately" predicted the outcome of the election.

 

It will never stop being weird to me that they were closer than any mainstream pundit, and they are the ones who people remember as being wildly off for some reason.

Everyone else: "There's a 98%+ chance that Clinton wins"

538: "We've got at at more like 75%. There's some interesting electoral college weakness in Clinton's vote distribution."

They got ripped before the election for having Trump's chances too high (lots of accusations of goosing it up to keep up the drama) and then after for not having him favored.

 

I’m laughing at you, not with you.

 

But his email situation is fine, so it's all good.

 

I haven't studied it, and whether their late change toward 75% was actually data driven, but it sure seemed to me like 538 drew the estimate downward to cover their ass.

 

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

It peaked at 88% for Clinton in mid-October then nosedove post-Comey when the polls tightened noticeably. It got as close at 35% for Trump with a week to go before ticking back to 29%.

I'm not sure the data follows your feelings on this one.