trump offers Flynn national security adviser job

[christiefan915]

So much for draining the swamp...

"President-elect Donald Trump offered former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn the job of national security adviser...

Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to “drain the swamp” of Washington corruption. The new ethics pledge he announced Wednesday would prohibit registered lobbyists from working for his transition team or administration.

But Trump’s supposed aversion to lobbyists has not harmed the fortunes of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, one of Trump’s earliest and most visible supporters, now a vice-chair of the transition team and a rumored frontrunner for the influential post of national security advisor.

Though Flynn is not a lobbyist himself, his company, Flynn Intel Group, is registered with Congress as a lobbying organization, and has a registered lobbyist on its staff. A Flynn Intel Group client, Kamil Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman with real estate, aerospace, and consulting interests, told The Intercept on Thursday that one of his companies, Inovo BV, paid Flynn’s company “tens of thousands of dollars” for analysis on world affairs.

On election day, Flynn published an opinion piece for The Hill urging U.S. support for Turkey’s controversial strongman president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and pushing for the extradition of Erdogan’s political rival, Fethullah Gülen, who now resides in Pennsylvania. “From Turkey’s point of view, Washington is harboring Turkey’s Osama bin Laden,” Flynn wrote, on Nov. 8.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/17/...-for-lobbying/

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Disgusting.

[anatta]

good choice.

[christiefan915]

Virulent Muslim hater Flynn will compromise his principles enough to let them line his pockets, though. Ka-ching!

[Stretch]

good choice.

Excellent choice...the dems need to focus on their own disarray in D.C.

[tsuke]

looks good to me.

hes a democrat too right?

[Jarod]

Brain dead

[christiefan915]

looks good to me.

hes a democrat too right?

He is, and I disown him.

[Stretch]

looks good to me.

hes a democrat too right?

Stated in July, "I'm a Pro-Life Democrat"

[Irish]

Possibly the dumbest OP all time. How is naming a general not draining the swamp??

[christiefan915]

Possibly the dumbest OP all time. How is naming a general not draining the swamp??

Pointing out the trump hypocrisy and lies is never dumb. "Dumb" is people like you denying that the grifter sold you a bill of goods. Iit's pretty funny how cons are all scrambling to reframe trump lies.

Do you need help understanding the OP?

[Rune]

Irish is a close runner up for mental retard of the year, right behind Text driver.

[anatta]

Flynn has been a vocal critic of the Obama and Bush administrations since leaving his job overseeing the Defense Intelligence Agency last year. Flynn told the German news outlet Der Spiegel on Sunday that removing Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya destabilized the region.
"It was huge error. As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision," Flynn said.

President Barack Obama's former top military intelligence official said Tuesday that the White House ignored reports prefacing the rise of ISIS in 2011 and 2012 because they did not fit its re-election "narrative."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/01/politi...nn-obama-isis/

^ bingo.right on both counts.

[Rune]

good choice.

This is your idea of draining the swamp?
The owner of a lobby firm who actively supports Erdogan?
Shut up idiot

[Rune]

Flynn has been a vocal critic of the Obama and Bush administrations since leaving his job overseeing the Defense Intelligence Agency last year. Flynn told the German news outlet Der Spiegel on Sunday that removing Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya destabilized the region.
"It was huge error. As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision," Flynn said.

President Barack Obama's former top military intelligence official said Tuesday that the White House ignored reports prefacing the rise of ISIS in 2011 and 2012 because they did not fit its re-election "narrative."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/01/politi...nn-obama-isis/

^ bingo.right on both counts.

Stalin was right ocasionally also shit fer brains.