Off with his Head

The Alice in Wonderland situation in the White House continues apace. All Trump's men followed him down the rabbit hole but no one knew where it would lead to. Michael Flynn seemed to know where he was going but, oops, he slipped up and got marched off to oblivion for telling Big Lies. Off with his head, shouted Queen Trump! Almost as soon as former Lieutenant-General Flynn entered the White House he was on a slippery slope. The mere fact that he was only a three-star general and was coming up against former military comrades who were four stars - such as General James "Mad Dog" Mattis at the Pentagon and General John Kelly at the Department of Homeland Security - spelled trouble. There's nothing a four star likes less than being told what to do by a three star, espceially when that particular three star (Flynn) had been sacked from his last military job (director of the Defence Intelligence agency), and was considered by some to be as mad as the Mad Hatter.  Trump, not being a military man of any shape or form, having never been required to fight for his country, wouldn't have understood that. He appointed Flynn as his National Security Adiviser because he had been a loyal and trusted sidekick during his presidential election campaign. Flynn, remember, led the chorus to "jail Hillary Clinton" over her unwise use of a private email to conduct government business when she was Secretary of State. Trump is slowly getting the message that something called integrity is a key ingredient, or should be a key ingredient, when running the United States of America. The fathers of the Constitution took that as read, and all presidents vow to serve and protect the nation. Flynn was caught out. Before he had started his job in the White House he phoned up the Russian ambassador to Washington and had a  nice chat about the possibility of lifting the sanctions against Moscow which the then encumbent president, Barack Obama, had imposed on Russian individuals, and had just added to on the same day Flynn picked up the phone to Putin's chief representative in the US. Worse than that, he claimed he didn't raise sanctions, then he said he didn't remember raising the issue. Then, oh my goodness, someone must have told him that every word he had uttered had been picked up by those nice boys in the FBI who make a habit of tapping into every phone call involving the Russian ambassador and his fellow Ruskies serving in America. Quite surprising Flynn didn't realise that. It must have come as a shock when Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General, head of the US Justice Department, told the White House she had incontrovertible proof that Flynn DID mention sanctions. So off with his head and out he goes. Not much magic for him in the White House Alice in Wonderland world.