text: Thank you Gary, I appreciated your well-reasoned calm response this morning to Jackie Owsley. While scary as a conspiracy theory seeming to blame our former president for traitorous sabotage of the incoming administration, I found the crazy parts to be roughly based on a twisted interpretation of accessible facts, though I can't find anything on US assassination of Crimean politicians, nor any reference to US artillery or soldiers in Ukraine shelling Russian occupiers.
  
  If Congress declines to investigate Flynn's purpose in talking with Russian embassy spies before the election, and if Trump can weather that storm, then he can survive. On the other hand, if rats keep deserting the doomed ship, at a certain point this administration will fall apart from attrition. What I see with Flynn falling on his sword is smart protection of Pence, who so far has plausible deniability of involvement, having been "lied to" by Flynn. This may have been worked out since Jan 26 between Bannon and Pence.