Flynn Was Paid To Lobby For Turkey While Attending Trump Intel Briefings: Report
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn was being by the country of Turkey to to lobby at the same time that he attended top secret intelligence briefings on behalf of the Trump campaign.
NBC News is reporting that according to federal records Flynn only stopped lobbying after he became Donald Trump’s national security adviser, “but he then played a role in formulating policy toward Turkey, working for a president who has promised to curb the role of lobbyists in Washington.”
Flynn did not register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent until just days ago.
Flynn’s firm was paid over $500,000 for his work lobbying on behalf of Turkey.
On Election Day in 2016, “Flynn authored an op-ed in the Hill, a Washington newspaper, in which he lambasted Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric residing in Pennsylvania who is blamed by the Turkish government for fomenting a July coup attempt there,” NBC News notes.
It was also revealed that the Trump transition team was notified that Flynn would likely have to register as a foreign agent but still selected Flynn to be national security adviser.
Flynn was fired from the national security position when it was revealed that he lied about his communications with the Russian ambassador and discussed the easier sanctions situation that Russia would face when Trump was president.
