Posted on 11/17/2016 2:09:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to become his national security adviser, a source with knowledge of the matter has revealed.
The source told NBC Wednesday evening that Trump had settled on Flynn, who was also being considered for the secretary of defense post.
The Daily News could not independently confirm the report, and the Trump campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
Earlier in the evening, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said the President-elect had met with Flynn and added he would make a "fantastic addition" to the team.
"He has been a companion on the campaign trail quite a bit as we've seen over the past few months," Miller told Fox News' Megyn Kelly.
Flynn, 57, was appointed Defense Intelligence Agency director in 2012, but had his tenure cut short in 2014 after an apparent falling out with top Obama administration officials.
Much aligned with Trump's campaign rhetoric, Flynn claims in a recently published book that the U.S. is losing a "world war" against radical Islam because of "political correctness." In the book, he also claims without proof that American Islamists are attempting to create "an Islamic state right here at home" by pushing to implement "legal standing for Sharia."
The retired three star general has also suggested he might be on board with killing relatives of suspected terrorists and once tweeted, "Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL."
Like Trump, Flynn sees a military ally in controversial Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he was seated next to at a banquet in Moscow last year. Flynn has also appeared several times on the state-owned TV station, Russia Today, which the U.S. State Department has accused of being a mouthpiece for Putin.
Flynn officially threw his support behind Trump when he made a fiery speech at the Republican convention in July. During the speech, Flynn accused President Obama and Hillary Clinton of betraying the core principles of the United States and even led the convention crowd in chants of "Lock her up!"
And of course that's based on much personal experience with the man, qualifying you to declare him so, right ?
I predict a lot of battles when confirmation hearings begin on trump’s cabinet.
Good God, I don’t know. Can’t imagine it.
I remember he spoke at the Rat convention.
And Condi Rice was prim, proper, and controlled. Yet she was pretty worthless.
As long as he clears the muzzie broz embeds outta the gov’t first.
As opposed to, say, Obie and CNN...or the NYT...
Not a good plan. He might be mistaken for John Podesta.
Only to the Obama administration...are you speaking for them?
Flynn had been DIA Director, which required a way different skill set than DOD Secretary. NSC or CIA Director are a better fit for him. I’ve only just started reading his book with Michael Ledeen.
By law, a general officer of the military cannot serve as Secretary of Defense until he has been retired for at least seven years.
The object is to maintain the tradition of civilian control of the military (evidently, Congress believes it takes seven years for a military guy to become a civilian).
Here is one of the things he said:
"...With her as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction,” he said. “Our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture, and they will not be ordered to engage in murder or carry out other illegal activities...”
Wow. Right out of the John Murtha school of Ex-Marines.
John Kerry. John McCain. John Murtha. Now, John Allen. What is it with Johns?
I didn’t know that. Interesting. I thought he had been out that long, but I guess not.
Mattis has already been 86ed from the Trump inner circle by Trump’s son-in-law.
His boss is also a loose cannon. GOOD. I like people who speak their mind, especially when controversial. The nice thing about Trump is that he won't give a damn what the media or John McCain might say against a future Flynn "off-color" remark about Muslims, for example. Flynn's job will remain solid
Too bad. I didn’t know he was ever in the inner circle!
He was a Christie ally and Trump’s son-in-law had is dad put in prison by Christie.
Why is he a loose cannon? He’s definitely not a yes man and we need more of them.
He’s was the only general I am aware of who called our enemy by its true name, radical Islamic jihadists. He claimed he was fired for making that comment.
He’s the only general I am aware of who is cozy both with one party state fascist Russia and Islamist Turkey.
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