Rep. Schiff: I Don’t Know if Russia Is Behind Flynn’s Turkish Deal

‘Now that we know he received $500,000 from Turkey’

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MITCHELL: “Politico was reporting that the Turkish organization, the Turkish people who paid him actually were backed by a Russian oligarch and energy businessman close to Vladimir Putin. Is Russia behind the Turkish deal, as well?”
SCHIFF: “I don’t know the answer to that. But I can tell you, I'm a member, and now that we know he received this money from Turkey, I guess about $500,000, it explains something that mystified me at the time and that was, right around the election, Michael Flynn wrote an op-ed where among other things he called for the United States to turn over Fethullah Gulen, this Turkish cleric who lives in the United States in Pennsylvania, to the Erdogan regime. He called for that without ever seeing any evidence suggesting that Gulen was involved in the coup effort as Erdogan likes to claim." 

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