K. T. McFarland made clear in email exchange that Trump trans team was focused on Russia Relations!

[riversedge]

We have not head much at all from this person!!






K. T. McFarland made clear in an email exchange that the Trump presidential transition team was intensely focused on relations with Russia. Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times



Emails Dispute White House Claims That Flynn Acted Independently on Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/russia-mcfarland-flynn-trump-emails.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news



Michael S. Schmidt, Sharon LaFraniere and Scott Shane
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Michael T. Flynn, right, on Feb. 10, three days before he was fired as national security adviser. Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — When President Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in February, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official during the presidential transition and then lied to his colleagues about the interactions.

But emails among top transition officials, provided or described to The New York Times, suggest that Mr. Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents filed on Friday, showed that Mr. Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.

While Mr. Trump has disparaged as a Democratic “hoax” any claims that he or his aides had unusual interactions with Russian officials, the records suggest that the Trump transition team was intensely focused on improving relations with Moscow and was willing to intervene to pursue that goal despite a request from the Obama administration that it not sow confusion about official American policy before Mr. Trump took office.

On Dec. 29, a transition adviser to Mr. Trump, K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by the Obama administration in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Mr. Trump’s victory. The sanctions could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, “which has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,” she wrote in the emails obtained by The Times.

It is not clear whether Ms. McFarland was saying she believed that the election had in fact been thrown. A White House lawyer said on Friday that she meant only that the Democrats were portraying it that way..............................................

[ProudLib72]

1. I hope Mueller already knows everything there is to know about her

Every week there is something new, and I'd hate to think it delays prosecution. (Even though I'd also like Mueller to ensnare every single player.)

[uponit7771]

2. This should be headline news everywhere!!! Russia threw election for Trump !!!

[greeny2323]

4. No

My god this same stupid claim has been repeated here in at least five different threads.

She's not claiming Russia threw the election for Trump

*sigh*

[uponit7771]

5. Common with the semantics, " .. TO .. " Trump ... people understand its and admission no doubt

[NastyRiffraff]

3. Keep it up, Ms. McFarland

Bob Mueller is waiting for your next act.

I think she'll look better in orange than in pink.

[wishstar]

6. Until this week, I thought she was Flynn's wife she's been pictured with Flynn so often

while media hardly mentioned her name before this week. Reportedly she has already spoken with Mueller's team.

Trump team was not only intensely focused on "improving relations with Moscow", they were all uniformly dishonest and secretive in order to keep their pro-Moscow actions secret from American people.