Another media story attacking Flynn falls apart

Politico:
A former business associate of Michael Flynn told lawmakers that phone records contradict an anonymous whistleblower's allegation that the ex-national security adviser sent an Inauguration Day text declaring a controversial Middle East nuclear energy deal "good to go," according to a letter released Monday.

In an account provided to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) in June — but made public only last week — the whistleblower said Alex Copson, a top official at ACU Strategic Partners, bragged on Inauguration Day about his relationship with Flynn, at one point flipping around his phone to reveal the text about the deal to build nuclear plants across the Middle East.

The whistleblower also said Copson said sanctions against Russia would be "ripped up" to make room for the deal.

But in a letter to Cummings dated Friday, Thomas Cochran, a top ACU official, said the whistleblower's account was inaccurate, attaching AT&T phone records that he said show Copson did not get a text from Flynn that day.

“The only text message Mr. Copson received on Inauguration Day came at 1:49 p.m.,” Cochran said. He said that text was from a friend who attended the same function where the whistleblower claimed to witness Copson’s boasting.

“Since Mr. Copson did not receive a text message from General Flynn during the Inauguration, other allegations of the ‘whistleblower’ are equally false and unfounded,” wrote Cochran, who identified himself as a senior scientist at the company. He requested that Cummings share the new information with the media.
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After seeing Cummings partisan defense of Clinton and Obama in the Benghazi debacle, he has very little credibility.  He strikes me as a guy who hears what he wants to hear and disregards countervailing facts.  He apparently is still trying to make excuses for teh "whistleblower."

Note also how the media apparently went with this story without seeking proof of the alleged text.  That fits a pattern on these stories attacking the Trump campaign, such as the recent CNN story alleging Donald Trump Jr. got info from Wikileaks before it was public.  They are desperate to build a collusion case where there is no evidence of any.

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