{"id":116215,"date":"2017-02-13T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116215"},"modified":"2017-02-14T11:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:46:55","slug":"flynn-resigns-national-security-adviser-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116215","title":{"rendered":"Flynn resigns National Security Adviser position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-116216\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FlynnMichael.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FlynnMichael.jpg 159w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FlynnMichael-129x175.jpg 129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP)\u00a0 &#8211; National security adviser Michael <span style=\"color: red;\">Flynn<\/span> has resigned after reports he misled Trump administration officials about his contacts with Russia&#8217;s ambassador to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Flynn&#8217;s<\/span> departure less than one month into the Trump administration marks an extraordinarily early shakeup in the president&#8217;s senior team of advisers. <span style=\"color: red;\">Flynn<\/span> was a loyal Trump supporter throughout the campaign, but his ties to Russia caused concern among other senior aides.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Flynn<\/span> initially told Trump advisers that he did not discuss sanctions with the Russian envoy during the transition. Vice President Mike Pence, apparently relying on information from <span style=\"color: red;\">Flynn<\/span>, publicly vouched for the national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Flynn<\/span> later told White House officials that he may have discussed sanctions with the ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP)\u00a0 &#8211; National security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned after reports he misled Trump administration officials about his contacts with Russia&#8217;s ambassador to the U.S. Flynn&#8217;s departure less than one month into the Trump administration marks an extraordinarily early shakeup in the president&#8217;s senior team of advisers. Flynn was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116217,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116215\/revisions\/116217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}