It’s probably for the best that President Trump forced retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to resign as national security adviser when he did.
That’s because Flynn would likely have found himself in another scandal — in addition to the one involving his phone calls with Russia’s ambassador — over a $530,000 lobbying contract he had with a company linked to the Turkish government.
Flynn disclosed a slew of details about that lobbying contract this week in documents filed for his firm, Flynn Intel Group, with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The Daily Caller has confirmed, in a follow-up to details in those documents, that Flynn met in New York City on Sept. 19 with Turkey’s ministers of foreign affairs and energy, Mevlut Cavusoglu and Berat Albayrak, respectively.
The meeting, which occurred while the Turkish officials were in town for a United Nations General Assembly meeting, was organized by Ekim Alptekin, the sole proprietor of Inovo BV, the Flynn Intel client.
The Daily Caller first reported in November, just after the election, that Flynn Intel Group had a lobbying contract with Inovo BV, which is nothing more than a shell company registered in the Netherlands.
The relationship was puzzling because of Alptekin’s position as head of a business group with connections to the Turkish government called the Turkish-U.S. Business Council. An op-ed that Flynn wrote for The Hill on Nov. 8, Election Day, was also peculiar given the timing of the piece and Flynn’s rhetoric.
Flynn staked out positions in the op-ed he had never before expressed publicly. He expressed support for the Turkish government, an Islamist regime, and was heavily critical of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric in the U.S. whose extradition is sought by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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If Flynn was still in Trump White House, imagine the leverage the Turkish gov't would have had on him. https://t.co/CWwJrBZqpt @dailycaller
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) March 9, 2017
@LouiseMensch @GenFlynn @mflynnJR @jasoninthehouse also props to @ChuckRossDC who published about this in November: https://t.co/djhw8EqfMf
— Cal Naham (@xtrixcyclex) March 9, 2017
AP cites documents: Flynn was paid $530,000 before the election for 3 months' work as a "foreign agent" for Turkey. https://t.co/xw7CJqVNG4
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) March 9, 2017
Goodness, how in the world did Mike Flynn get appointed in the first place? He was officially a foreign agent? Unreal.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) March 9, 2017
MUST WATCH: Yet again Shep Smith goes all in. You gotta watch this. Trust me. You just have to. pic.twitter.com/SeSc3xnCZ8
— Yashar (@yashar) March 9, 2017
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