Drip, drip, drip ...
The Michael Flynn saga has given rise to more doubts and questions. With reporters digging and sources in Washington leaking, will the dam break one day?
EVERY day there is a fresh outrage emerging from the murky bog of the Donald Trump administration. Every day there is a new round of questions and a new set of concerns that raise anxieties and lower trust. Every day it becomes ever more clear that it is right and just to doubt the legitimacy of this regime and all that flows from it.
The latest round involves the former national security adviser Michael T Flynn, who this week was forced to resign following disclosures about his communications with the Russian ambassador on the same day that then-president Barack Obama announced sanctions against Russia for its interference in the US election to help Mr Trump and damage Hillary Clinton.
The official reason given for requesting Mr Flynn's resignation was, according to the White House press secretary Sean Spicer, "The president was very concerned that Gen Flynn had misled the vice-president and others." Mr Spicer continued later: "The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for Gen Flynn's resignation."
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