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!"
Wait, WHAT? Flynn is an Erdogan guy? Whoa...if true, that’s a big red flag to me.
I predict a lot of battles when confirmation hearings begin on trump’s cabinet.
National Security Adviser does not get Senate confirmation making it a good spot for Flynn.
Wait, WHAT? Flynn is an Erdogan guy? Whoa...if true, that’s a big red flag to me.
Yeah, there is no way Flynn could get through an embarrassing Senate confirmation hearing. If Trump needs to reward his loyalty it will be in a position that doesn’t require that.
Mattis retired on May 22, 2013, after 44 years of service.
Trump adviser linked to Turkish lobbying
Not so fast, says this guy.
Like it or not Flynn just penned an Erdogan boot licking op-ed. With friends like that...
Until appointments are announced by PE Trump or Pence, I’m not putting any credit in them. If these unnamed sources aren’t careful, they won’t be a source of anything. Like the saying, those that know aren’t talking and those that are talking don’t know.
Our ally Turkey is in crisis and needs our support
The gist of the article talks about Fethullah Gülen, a former imam with ties to the Clinton Foundation, who is currently residing in the USA.
Turkey is full of scumbags, Erdoğan being the top one. Giving refuge to a scumbag like Gulen isn't a good move either.
Interesting...I didn’t know anything about that, so I looked it up. It looks like his son-in-law’s father was prosecuted and convicted of various things, but that business about him setting up his brother-in-law with a prostitute. secretly taping it, and sending the tape to the man’s wife (his sister) is (if true) pretty heinous and damning.
In reading a few accounts of it, it sounds like that libturd SOB should have been in jail for what he was doing even apart from setting up his brother-in-law with a hooker. He sounds like a piece of work. I dislike Christie intensely, but it sounded like good work on his part, to me.
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