Trump team did background check on Flynn, knew of Turkey ties

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

The White House and President Trump's transition team reportedly did a background check on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in addition to his already approved security clearance, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported Friday evening.

"NBC News has learned from sources close to the Trump-Russia investigation that both the Trump transition and the White House did do a background check on Flynn," Maddow said on her program, citing reporting from NBC's Andrea Mitchell.

"This is in addition to his already approved security clearance. They did a background check on Flynn specifically for him to become national security adviser."

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Maddow said Friday that NBC reporting showed that "the vetting of Flynn was done and sources close to the investigation tell NBC that it was done 'very casually.'" "One person involved tells NBC that the Trump transition was aware of Flynn's business ties to Turkey," she said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/331191-trump-team-did-do-a-background-check-of-flynn-new-about-ties-to

[tenorly]

1. What we need, is more info on Trump's Turkey ties.

Boy, try saying that five times fast.

[NewJeffCT]

3. How about

Treacherous Trump's Tainted Turkey Ties?

[tenorly]

6. Cheeto the cheesy chiseler

dealing with dirty despots.

[musette_sf]

15. Erdoğan is Rump The Hun's role model n/t

[NewJeffCT]

2. Lock 'em all up

Tainted Trump

[JohnnyRingo]

4. They want to blame Obama for clearing him...

...but Obama fired him. Why then did Trump think it was a good idea to hire him?

[dalton99a]

11. Bingo.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Impeach, or convict, or whatever works to get them ALL out of there!

This has gone on far too long. As in nearly 100 days too long.

Illegitimate election results. Criminal behavior.

[DURHAM D]

7. I don't think they had a choice about keeping Flynn on.

Putin wanted Flynn to have access to all of our intelligence on Russia, etc. and gave Trump his marching orders.

My guess is that Putin is really mad at Trump right now and thinks he is a big wuss because he has not put enough members of the press and leading Democrats in jail or just killed them off.

[Ninsianna]

8. How do you "casually vet" a national security advisor?

Isn't that something that would require some serious vetting? Especially a guy who was fired and who had an "interesting" twitter account.

That man and his son were clearly deranged.

[SunSeeker]

9. As Rachel said, the real question is WHY did the Trump administration lie about not knowing this?

WHY is everyone in the Trump adminstration (including Trump and Pence) refusing to acknowledge the easily provable fact that they knew Flynn was a foreign agent?

[BigmanPigman]

10. They ALL knew! "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them..." by Al Franken.

[Historic NY]

12. This White House lie's about lying....

at ever corner Trumps convinces his minions that the media is fake.....

[riversedge]

13. The Rachel Maddow Show 4/28/17 Trump team did vet Flynn, hired him anyway:

The Rachel Maddow Show 4/28/17
Trump team did vet Flynn, hired him anyway: NBC News
Rachel Maddow reports a scoop from NBC News that the Donald Trump transition team and the White House did do a background check on Mike Flynn. Also, a source tells NBC News they were aware of Flynn's business ties to Turkey, but hired him to be Trump's National Security Adviser anyway. Duration: 20:00

[Tiphill]

14. Trump's admitting he's on borrowed time