Big John Solomon Expose!!!! He’s Covering Up Trump’s Egypt Corruption!

Yesterday, John Solomon conducted another of his Russian propaganda exercises, this time claiming to release newly declassified versions of: - The 302 from Mike Flynn’s January 24, 2017 interview - Joe Pientka’s notes from the interview - Peter Strzok’s notes from the interview Solomon waved his hands around squealing that the notes did not match the 302 — just as Sidney Powell squealed that the notes did not match the 302 back in 2019, before Judge Emmet Sullivan wrote a 99-page opinion laying out that Powell was wrong in key respects and anyway none of it undermined the evidence that Mike Flynn lied in that interview. But what’s really nutty about yesterday’s little propaganda escapade is, no, John, you actually didn’t release newly declassified documents, or not much, anyway. The only substantively new declassification in the documents is this passage in Strzok’s notes, which seems to reflect what they knew going in; they’re summaries of what they knew Flynn actually said on his calls with Sergey Kislyak (and would have been classified in 2019 when these notes were first released because they were FISA content); the still-redacted word, as we’ll see, is almost certainly “Egypt.” In reality, there’s actually more new redactions than in the earlier released versions of these documents: - 302 from Mike Flynn interview released on June 6, 2019 - Combined interview notes released May 7, 2020 (If you’ve been around a while you might remember that DOJ confused who wrote which notes in 2020, when they released these, and I had to straighten them out; just one of the services I provide!) Mike Flynn was warned Russia would try to cultivate him One set of new redactions serves to cover up details of Flynn’s trip to the RT gala in December 2015. In both Pientka’s notes, The earlier released documents showed Flynn saying he took Mike Flynn Jr with him to meet with Sergey Kislyak before his Russian trip and that he got a DIA threat briefing before the trip. But in both the Pientka notes released yesterday, And the 302 released yesterday, Those references are redacted. I’ve got my own theory why John Solomon and Kash Patel wanted to cover those up. The Egyptian side to Trump’s Russian corruption I’ve got stronger theories about why they’re covering up references to Egypt in these documents. The earlier released Pientka notes, All describe that “FLYNN heard through other channels that Egypt did not like” their own resolution to condemn settlers in the West Bank, and that Egypt delayed the vote themselves. These are references to Trump’s efforts — directed by Jared Kushner — to prevent or delay Egypt’s resolution condemning illegal settlements in the West Bank, a frantic effort involving a bunch of countries to undermine the foreign policy of the United States government. After Flynn had, earlier in the interview, given a false claim about how many calls he had with Kislyak, the FBI agents asked him if there was a call in which Flynn had asked for Russian help to stall the vote, Flynn basically said, oh yeah!!! there was another call!!! but Flynn explained, nope, there was no request to Russia to help stall the vote, Egypt decided that on its own. Flynn’s answer was a lie to cover up that: - A request was made that Russia help Trump kill or delay the vote. - After that request was made on December 22, Putin was consulted and chose to play ball. - The other channel via which they learned Egypt’s plans was in a request directly to Abdel Fattah El-Sisi directly. Flynn is pretending that Egypt just decided to kill their own resolution themselves. It was an insanely stupid claim, but he thought he’d get away with it and, really, he has. In the Pientka notes released yesterday, The Strzok notes, Those references to Egypt have been covered up. Here, per the intercepts released in 2020, is part of what Flynn and Kislyak actually said in a conversation on December 23, 2016. Let me unpack this. First, as noted, this is the December 23 transcript. As Kislyak makes clear, there was an earlier call — the day before — and this call was his response. When John Ratcliffe released this in 2020, he didn’t actually release the December 22 transcript. I’ve got my theories why he didn’t. But it is clear from context that a request had been made (at that point, Flynn and Trump were in the same place, Mar-a-Lago) on that earlier call, that Kislyak had consulted with “the highest level in Russia” — that is, Putin — and that Kislyak was conveying to Flynn that Russia was going to play ball with Trump’s effort to prevent a condemnation of illegal Israeli settlements. The “slow down” reference in the notes appears to be a quote from the earlier call, the one we don’t get. Then there’s the hilarious part, what a fucking chump Flynn was here. Kislyak probes, hinting that he knows Egypt, who originally proposed the resolution, is not pushing for a vote. And Flynn says, Yep, we’ve been talking to them too. Then Kislyak probes, “there might be others.” And Flynn freely offers up that Trump has been talking to “a litany of countries.” Flynn just blabbed and blabbed and blabbed, like a teenage girl gossiping, telling Russia the extent of efforts to undermine Barack Obama’s foreign policy, precisely the kind of knowledge that gives another country leverage over you. It’s bad, terrible; but imagine how much worse Steve Witkoff is when he corrupts with the Russians. Again, Flynn’s explanation made absolutely no sense, because it was Egypt’s resolution in the first place! But Flynn was trying to cover up the separate call to el-Sisi. And now, in turn, John Solomon is trying to sustain that cover up, which is pretty interesting given the long-running bribery investigation into whether el-Sisi gave Trump a $10 million bribe that Bill Barr finally shut down in the same period he was blowing up the Mike Flynn prosecution. Solomon and whoever made these dumbass redaction decisions are attempting, again, to lie about how this all went down. And it is just as dumb an effort as Flynn’s original lie because these documents are all right here and we can all read you’re trying to cover up Egypt’s role in all this. One wonders why Solomon thinks this will help Convict-1, given how many of the facts are already known publicly. It’s almost as ridiculous as Convict-1 claiming he was a 9/11 hero. Applying the theory that someone in the WH is controlling the messengers, what else is there that is worse? Someone gave Solomon the green light to post. It’s like the Epstein files release where what we know is pretty damn awful, yet Blanche will let cases die to prevent any more releases.