Michael Flynn did not know how to call up the National Guard.. [View all]

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Well, people. I don’t even know what to say anymore.

The New York Times published a very alarming report on the Trump administration. The President Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, of the talking to Russia about sanctions while Obama was still President infamy, did not know how to call the National Guard for an emergency.

“Several staff members said that Mr. Flynn, who was a career Army officer, was not familiar with how to call up the National Guard in an emergency — for, say, a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina or the detonation of a dirty bomb in an American city.”

Not knowing how to call the National Guard up during an emergency even for a few minutes literally endangered all Americans. It is something every administration should know before they walk in the door. Regular administrations do know this.It’s something incoming administrations are briefed on during the transition. But the Trump administration blew many of those transition briefings off. Trump himself said he didn’t need to attend intelligence briefings because, “You know, I’m, like, a smart person.”

We have a National Security Adviser who didn’t know how to call the National Guard in an emergency. It is not clear that he knows how to do this now, either, since the wording is, “Several staff members said that Mr. Flynn… was not familiar with how to call up the National Guard in an emergency.” That is not the comforting “had not been familiar with how to call up the national guard.” It is they said he was not. That could mean he is still not.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/13/trumps-national-security-adviser-call-national-guard.html