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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Tue May 9, 2017, 05:22 AM May 2017

Dismissed warning about Flynn

By Aaron Blake
May 8 at 6:32 PM

... Then-President-elect Trump apparently took a warning from the sitting president of the United States not to hire a specific adviser and dismissed it as partisan politics ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/08/why-did-trump-ignore-obama-and-sally-yates-about-michael-flynn-because-they-were-losers-apparently/?utm_term=.7757cc7cabca

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Dismissed warning about Flynn (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2017 OP

I don't believe this excuse for a second vlyons May 2017 #1

++ HAB911 May 2017 #2

+++ blue cat May 2017 #3

vlyons

(10,252 posts)

1. I don't believe this excuse for a second

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue May 9, 2017, 05:34 AM

May 2017

I think Trump wanted Michael Flynn precisely BECAUSE of his Russian ties. Just like he wanted Tillerson and Manafort because of their Russian ties. Maybe Trump thought that a 3 star general would be useful working with Russia for a coordinated US-Russian military alliance in Syria. Maybe Trump's venal corrupt little mind recognized a kindred spirit, who grubbed after Russian money.

HAB911

(8,891 posts)

2. ++

Reply to vlyons (Reply #1)

Tue May 9, 2017, 06:56 AM

May 2017

blue cat

(2,415 posts)

3. +++

Reply to vlyons (Reply #1)

Tue May 9, 2017, 07:08 AM

May 2017

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