Michael Flynn
Where Things Stand: Isolating With The Oddballs Prime Badge
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12.21.20 | 1:19 pm

Quarantine has forced some of us to spend quite a lot of time in isolation with some … unique characters to say the least.

But President Trump — who, unlike the rest of us, has spent little time actually quarantining since COVID-19 first hit the U.S. — is actively choosing to keep the company of out-there characters.

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Where Things Stand: Flynn’s Descent Into Q Continues Prime Badge
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12.07.20 | 1:01 pm

Since he’s been pardoned from various crimes related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, Michael Flynn has embarked on a concerning descent into the swamps of QAnon.

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Where Things Stand: Even The Tiger King Prime Badge
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11.25.20 | 2:05 pm

President Trump has been laying the groundwork for years at this point.

Even if he had won the election, he’d probably continue floating it — letting a potential Michael Flynn pardon swing in the breeze while he waits for the right moment to let it drop. Now we’ve reached an hour so ripe with presidential turmoil that he might as well fling a distraction at his base.

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President Donald Trump speaks during a White House Conference on American History at the National Archives Museum on Thursday, September 17, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/For The New York Times) President Donald Trump speaks during a White House Conference on American History at the National Archives Museum on Thursday, September 17, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/For The New York Times)
Where Things Stand: The Great Unmasking Dud Prime Badge
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10.14.20 | 12:24 pm

There’s a reason this came out through the media rather than some official DOJ press release.

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