Mitch Perry
Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Tuesday that the revelations about former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn’s conversations with the Russians are only the beginning.
“Flynn’s resignation marks a beginning, not an end,” said the South Florida Democratic Representative in a statement on Tuesday.
Flynn resigned Monday night after it reports were confirmed over the weekend that he discussed lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Donald Trump had officially been inaugurated as president. For more than a month Flynn had denied that his conversation with Kislyak had involved anything other than some pleasantries, a statement that Vice President Mike Pence repeated several times.
Wasserman Schultz says that Flynn’s resignation was not only warranted, but overdue. But she says his exit raises more questions than it answers.
“It’s still unclear who and what was known in the White House about his diplomatic discussions with Russia before then-President Obama left office,” she says. “And if the Justice Department warned the White House last month that Flynn had misled them about his communications with a Russian diplomat, and therefore was vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow, why was he still on the job? This entire episode reaffirms the need for an independent, bipartisan investigation into the influence Russia has had on our elections, our national security and the current occupant of the White House. Flynn’s resignation marks a beginning, not an end.”
California Democrat Adam Schiff told his fellow House Democrats that more information regarding Flynn’s conversations with the Russians will surface in the coming days, POLITICO reports.
