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Demsrule86

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22. This is a Bush guy...it has been posted before
Mon May 23, 2016, 11:51 AM
May 2016

He was one of the architects of the Iraq war and supports torture...he stayed on...as Obama was 'reaching' across the aisle but he is a hater.This has been posted before. Oh and he is advising Trump...if you actually listen to the Tapper video link you provided, he admits it. So now you post is about a Trump surrogate attacking Hillar.y You pretend he is a Democrat...he is no Democrat. He wrote a nasty book about Biden and hates Obama.

But in interviews with current and former U.S. defense and intelligence officials, one name continues to surface as a trusted Trump adviser and go-to man on intelligence and national security: Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a well-known and outspoken critic of the Obama administration’s campaign against ISIS and its foreign policy.
In Trump, Flynn may have found a kindred spirit—a brash, candid provocateur who seems more interested in upending whole systems than in fine-tuning them. He is also the most prominent name to emerge of those who could help shape the nascent Trump doctrine. And that has made some current and former officials who know Flynn nervous.
They question why the retired general, who has earned criticism for his leadership style but has generally been regarded as a well-intentioned professional, would assist a candidate who has called for military actions that would constitute war crimes.
“I think Flynn and Trump are two peas in a pod,” one former senior U.S. intelligence official who knows Flynn told The Daily Beast. “They have this naïve notion that yelling at people will just solve problems.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/09/donald-trump-embraces-top-obama-intel-official.html

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What would be really hilarious to me is the fact CBGLuthier May 2016 #1
that is funny. n/t. okieinpain May 2016 #4
If she was planning to run, how could she be so stupid? J_J_ May 2016 #19
Hubris. berni_mccoy May 2016 #20
Time for her to go. This race is too important for one woman's grandiose Ego... NewImproved Deal May 2016 #2
Ha.ha 840high May 2016 #33
Trump military advisor Flynn also wants Muslim ban MattP May 2016 #3
Next time try getting somebody that isn't openly supporting Trump tonyt53 May 2016 #5
I think she may be just figuring out she has trapped herself and there is no way out. yourpaljoey May 2016 #6
I think y'all should be less gullible about taking the word of a Trump campaign surrogate. emulatorloo May 2016 #12
You might want to catch up on this story yourpaljoey May 2016 #17
I'm 'up on the story'. I also know a partisan hack Trump surrogate when I see one emulatorloo May 2016 #21
Thank you for your sanity NastyRiffraff May 2016 #31
TRUMP military advisor Flynn... apcalc May 2016 #7
Trump advisor Michael Flynn. So, now Trump's own campaign is a legit source? TwilightZone May 2016 #8
Would this be the same Michael Flynn that now sits on Trump's advisory board? Tarc May 2016 #9
DISCLAIMER: HI MY NAME IS DONALD TRUMP! BootinUp May 2016 #10
Google Trump Advisor General Michael Flynn. emulatorloo May 2016 #11
The right hates Hillary. The fringe left hates Hillary... SidDithers May 2016 #13
Left, right, up, down KULawHawk May 2016 #46
Seems like you will use any source WhiteTara May 2016 #14
WTF? So you think Lt Gen. Michael Flynn, who Obama appointed to head the DIA pdsimdars May 2016 #24
Aren't all of Trump's advisers RW nuts? hack89 May 2016 #25
He works for trump WhiteTara May 2016 #35
He's Trump's military advisor TwilightZone May 2016 #37
He just underscores the post-legal world that "insiders" live and govern in, doesn't he. ancianita May 2016 #15
How many times have you posted this? KingFlorez May 2016 #16
Politics has always made for strange bedfellows. So funny, that what helps Trump also helps Bernie. Hiraeth May 2016 #18
Flynn is a Trump surrogate Demsrule86 May 2016 #23
This is a Bush guy...it has been posted before Demsrule86 May 2016 #22
I think you should do more research on these things. MineralMan May 2016 #26
Flynn & Trump jamese777 May 2016 #29
Flynn is a loose cannon, and is no longer a MineralMan May 2016 #30
Naw she'd Faux pas May 2016 #27
Why would any candidate drop out when... jamese777 May 2016 #28
You forgot to mention NastyRiffraff May 2016 #32
12 hidden posts and you still aren't done embracing right wingers are you? JTFrog May 2016 #34
Flynn? Really? Desperation runs amok. kstewart33 May 2016 #36
The article is 3+ months old. You hit the irrelevancy double-whammy. TwilightZone May 2016 #38
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #39
Welcome to DU!! Duval May 2016 #40
This is a nothingburger. Members of The Club don't suffere consequences for anything n/t eridani May 2016 #41
Larry Summers just called. He wants your address for his Holiday Card list. Octafish May 2016 #43
That crowd never has to suffer consequences for anything, period. n/t eridani May 2016 #44
I'm sure it's nothing. Enthusiast May 2016 #42
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is a Donald Trump adviser Tarc May 2016 #45
So Trump wants her out. I hate Trump. I support Clinton. So everything is good. tandem5 May 2016 #47
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