Donald Trump Talked Michael Flynn Into White House Job

[brooklynite]

Source: The Daily Beast

President Donald Trump pressured a “reluctant” Michael Flynn into accepting a job as the White House’s top national security official even after Flynn warned the president that he was under investigation over undisclosed lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, The Daily Beast has learned.

Now, both men are paying a huge price for it.

“He did not want to be National Security Adviser,” Michael Ledeen, a friend of the retired Army general, told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “He didn’t want to be in the government. He wanted to go back to private life.”

“But Trump insisted on it,” said historian Ledeen, co-author of Flynn’s 2016 book The Field of Fight, their manifesto for defeating Islamic militancy. “He likes him, he trusted him, he was comfortable with him,” he said.

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/18/donald-trump-talked-michael-flynn-into-white-house-job

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The man knows how to judge talent...

[hlthe2b]

1. feels like a Friday news dump--and it is only Thursday...

my my....

[PunkinPi]

4. Every day is beginning to feel like that.

[iluvtennis]

2. So let the so-called billionare pay for Flynn's impending legal expenses. GAH

[geek tragedy]

3. "Trump has expressed his hopes that a resolution of the FBIs investigation in Flynns favor might

allow Flynn to rejoin the White House in some capacity"

25th Amendment seems more plausible.

[titaniumsalute]

5. Private life?

No he wanted to take huge sums of money from foreign governments while using his relationships here to mold policy. Fuck him. You reap what you sow.

[Honeycombe8]

6. If Flynn is that weak, he deserves to be in trouble, and should never have been NSA. nt

[GeorgeGist]

7. the chickenshittedness