A working president....

Day 26

Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, resigned on Monday night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Mr. Flynn, who served in the job for less than a month, said he had given “incomplete information” regarding a telephone call he had with the ambassador in late December about American sanctions against Russia, weeks before Mr. Trump’s inauguration. Mr. Flynn previously had denied that he had any substantive conversations with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, and Mr. Pence repeated that claim in television interviews as recently as this month.

But on Monday, a former administration official said the Justice Department warned the White House last month that Mr. Flynn had not been fully forthright about his conversations with the ambassador. As a result, the Justice Department feared that Mr. Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow.

In his resignation letter, which the White House emailed to reporters, Mr. Flynn said he had held numerous calls with foreign officials during the transition. “Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of events, I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador,” he wrote. “I have sincerely apologized to the president and the vice president, and they have accepted my apology.”

“I am tendering my resignation, honored to have served our nation and the American people in such a distinguished way,” Mr. Flynn wrote.

The White House said in the statement that it was replacing Mr. Flynn with retired Lt. Gen. Joseph K. Kellogg Jr. of the Army, a Vietnam War veteran, as acting national security adviser.

General Michael Flynn - was pushed out - as 'National Security advisor' to Trump for discussing with the Russian Ambassador - about the Latest sanctions slapped on Russia by Obama administration, then lying about it - to among others VP Pence.

Apparently, following the discussion between Flynn and the Russian Ambassador, Putin withheld the expected retaliation on sanctions!

Then....

At the time Trump tweeted;-

“A failure of Kenyan diplomacy” is to blame for President Donald Trump’s decision on Monday to place phone calls to the presidents of Nigeria and South Africa but not Kenya, a well-placed source in Washington tells the Business Daily.

President Trump signed his first piece of legislation on Tuesday, a measure that could presage the most aggressive assault on government regulations since President Reagan.

The bill cancels out a Securities and Exchange Commission regulation that would have required oil and gas and mining companies to disclose in detail the payments they make to foreign governments in a bid to boost transparency in resource-rich countries.

“Today, President Trump is signing his name to a bill with only one clear purpose: to make it easier to get away with corruption,” said Oxfam America’s senior policy adviser for extractive industries Isabel Munilla. “This rule was mandated by Congress, a mandate that remains in force in spite of this senseless bill.” She said the SEC was still under instructions to come up with another rule that would serve the same purpose.

The House resolution was introduced by Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), a member of the House Financial Services Committee. In the Senate, the lead sponsor was Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.).