According to the Washington Post, Copson’s boast about Trump “ripping up” U.S. sanctions against Russia comes directly from Michael Flynn, who has told Copson that removing all sanctions on Russia is exactly what Trump will do post-inauguration. Copson explains to the future whistleblower with whom he is speaking at Trump’s inauguration that “this is the start of something I have been working on for years.… Mike [Flynn] has been putting everything in place for us”—a comment that suggests Flynn’s course of foreign policy advising on the Trump campaign may well have been part of “putting
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