{"id":393180,"date":"2019-01-17T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/understanding-why-the-deep-state-had-to-take-down\/"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:49:50","slug":"understanding-why-the-deep-state-had-to-take-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/understanding-why-the-deep-state-had-to-take-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Why the Deep State Had To Take Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Does the American public really understand what happened to Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn?\u00a0\u00a0Highlights of the case have been thoroughly exploited by the shallow, left-leaning media as a convenient avenue to attack President Trump.\u00a0\u00a0But important elements of the story remain largely buried from public view.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic political demise of this distinguished general who was President Trump\u2019s initial national security adviser, one of the key jobs in the White House, has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/byron-york-from-fishy-beginning-mueller-case-against-michael-flynn-nears-end-with-no-jail-recommendation.\">well documented<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Former FBI director James Comey and the now disgraced upper echelon of the FBI and, subsequently, Special Counsel Robert Mueller maliciously trapped him, resulting in his ultimate prosecution and pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.\u00a0\u00a0Not only did Flynn lose an important and influential job in the White House, but they also bankrupted him with legal fees; threatened his family; and, worst of all, damaged the good name of a highly decorated military professional who served his country honorably and with distinction as a member of the American Intelligence Community.<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Against-State-Anarcho-Capitalist-Llewellyn-Rockwell\/dp\/0990463109?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0990463109\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/518lPjolIHL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Against-State-Anarcho-Capitalist-Llewellyn-Rockwell\/dp\/0990463109?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0990463109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Against the State: An &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$12.99<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$9.95<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 10:40 EST &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=0990463109&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The despicable and unethical attack on Flynn immediately after his appointment by Trump was just one element of a shameful Deep State\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/were-events-surrounding-flynns-moscow-visit-intentionally-misframed_2756546.html\">campaign<\/a>\u00a0to discredit and destroy the Trump presidency.\u00a0\u00a0As Trump\u2019s national security adviser, Flynn had Trump\u2019s ear.\u00a0\u00a0He was potentially the Deep State\u2019s worst nightmare.\u00a0\u00a0Flynn knows in detail how the Intelligence Community and the FISA courts operate.\u00a0\u00a0With a 33-year military career, including heading up the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn was an existential threat to outgoing President Obama and his shameless and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2019\/01\/no_author\/understanding-why-the-deep-state-had-to-take-down-general-michael-flynn\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the American public really understand what happened to Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn?\u00a0\u00a0Highlights of the case have been thoroughly exploited by the shallow, left-leaning media as a convenient avenue to attack President Trump.\u00a0\u00a0But important elements of the story remain largely buried from public view. The tragic political demise of this distinguished general who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}