Obama warned Trump about hiring Flynn, sources say

[PunkinPi]

Last edited Mon May 8, 2017, 12:25 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Then-President Barack Obama warned then-President-elect Donald Trump about hiring Michael Flynn as his national security adviser in their Oval Office meeting on November 10, former Obama officials confirm to CNN.

NBC News was the first to report the warning.

This story will be updated.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/08/politics/obama-trump-michael-flynn/index.html?adkey=bn

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12:14 pm link has now been updated with more info

[ck4829]

1. Trump onboarded Flynn to stick it to Obama

The story was that Flynn was too hardcore for the Obama Administration and that he spoke too tough about Muslims. Well, he is a xenophobe but he's also a nutcase and a crook. But Trump just had to stick it to Obama, right?

But now we're going to hear from Trump how it was Obama's fault for giving him clearance and what-not.

[safeinOhio]

6. Needs to read his favorite book...

Proverbs 16:18.
Pride goeth before a great fall

[yallerdawg]

2. What did the prick he was talking to do?

Of course.

[L. Coyote]

3. Lots of tweets on this.

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[George II]

4. It's all over CNN now, and will most likely spread to the other networks.

[bluestarone]

5. what a

total bullshit person tRump is

[mac56]

7. "You're not the boss of me."

[OnDoutside]

8. Uh oh, it sets the scene nicely for Sally Yates....

[NewRedDawn]

9. I hate these fuckers

with every fiber of my being And the heat of 1000 suns!!!!

[ailsagirl]

20. You said it, NewRedDawn

[NewJeffCT]

10. How many Republican senators

will now bring up the fact that Obama renewed Flynn's security clearance in 2016? All of them, or will one of them forget?

[rickford66]

11. He was warned and persisted.

[dalton99a]

12. Still it was Obama's fault

Everything is Obama's fault

[47of74]

13. Donald J. Putinfluffer was too busy fantasizing about being a dictator...

....to listen to what Obama was saying to him.

[NastyRiffraff]

14. Trump: Obama says bad

Must be good!

[Solly Mack]

15. K&R

[Maxheader]

16. trump would

chop his hands off if obama told him not to.

[riversedge]

17. WSJ: Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Flynn Advice came shortly after November election and concern

I do not have access to rest of article.


Politics National Security

Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Flynn

https://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-warned-trump-against-hiring-flynn-1494263961
Advice came shortly after November election and concerned Flynn’s checkered service as head of Defense Intelligence Agency
By Carol E. Lee and
Del Quentin Wilber
May 8, 2017 1:19 p.m. ET

Former President Barack Obama warned then President-elect Donald Trump against hiring Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, a former Obama administration official said Monday.

The warning by Mr. Obama came shortly after the November election and concerned Mr. Flynn’s checkered service as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. In...

[riversedge]

18. cnn has longer article now---linking it up with Yates upcoming testimony and her warnings....

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/08/politics/obama-trump-michael-flynn/index.html?sr=twCNN050817obama-trump-michael-flynn0331PMVODtopLink&linkId=37342399

.......Trump did not heed Obama's counsel on Flynn, bringing aboard the former military intelligence officer who supported Trump during his campaign as his national security adviser. Trump fired Flynn 24 days later when news broke of Flynn's conversations with Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.

News of the warning comes as former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is set to testify before Congress on Monday about the concerns she expressed to Trump administration officials about Flynn's contacts with Russian officials, namely with Kislyak.
NBC News was the first to report the warning.


Yates, in her role as acting attorney general, warned White House counsel Don McGahn on January 26 that Flynn was lying when he denied -- both publicly and privately -- that he discussed US sanctions on Russia with Kislyak. It wasn't until weeks later that Trump asked for Flynn's resignation, only after news surfaced that Flynn had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Kislyak.

[riversedge]

19. Obama fired Flynn. You fired an attorney general who told you to fire Flynn....

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Still With Hillary Retweeted
Zach Broussard?Verified account @ZachBroussard 6h6 hours ago
Replying to @realDonaldTrump

Obama fired Flynn. You fired an attorney general who told you to fire Flynn.

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