A loyal member of Trump’s team throughout the campaign.
Team members the only picks so far: Bannon, Priebus, Flynn
Good pick
Susan Rice to Michael Flynn....... what a contrast
That in a nutshell is Obama vs: Trump
An AA AAF vs: a White Fighting Man
But I'll say it again....Mike Pence will likely be the most successful VP in the history of our country. Awesome Pick!!
One of the big negatives about the initial Obama team in 2008...was that they had virtually no real foreign affairs talent (I think they had one single person out of the top 24 selected).
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lawmaker-slams-flynns-temperament-views-on-russia-turkey/article/2607705
HOORAY Mr. Donald J. Trump. WOOOHOOO Michael Flynn.
Unconfirmed ROTD
I’ve known Mike Flynn for over 20 years and, at one point in our careers, I was his instructor. Mike’s a good guy and a real soldier’s soldier not beholden to the Pentagon bureaucracy. Like Trump himself, he’s an American first and party affiliation be damned. Mike’s been a registered Democrat his entire life, but he’s a Democrat in the “old” sense, concerned about what’s good for the country first.
I was kind of hoping he’d be selected for DNI, which would have sent shock waves through the Intelligence Community. However, as National Security Advisor, his appointment will send shock waves through BOTH DoD and the IC. In private, I’ll bet Mike would love to tell some of the DoD and IC “leadership”, “How do you like me now?!”
General Flynn is an outstanding pic. The wishy washy generals and admirals don’t like him because he is “too partisan.” Partisan? All he did was tell the truth about Hillary Clinton. The truth is a casualty of these days. Most of the generals and admirals have let us down. They have bowed down to political correctness and horrible leadership. Because of that cowardice, the average military person and their families have suffered greatly. On top of this, Flynn is the opposite of Susan Rice. What a horrible horrible horrible job and damage she has done to the national security agency.
I read just a minute ago Sessions is the new AG - it’s good to see the Dream Team come together!
Winning is exhilarating!™
I have no problem with any of them and would imagine that if I did have "concerns", those concerns were addressed and taken care of before the picks....
Yup!
YES!!!
Another outstanding pick!
Get McInerney and Vallely on the payroll too!
Love it!
I agree completely! Very few civilians understand just how political the flag officer corps really is and the higher you go, the more stars you wear, the more politicized the atmosphere becomes. As I’ve told a number of people, almost every colonel or Navy captain I’ve ever known thought he or she would become a flag officer and every one star strove to put on two and so on, up the ranks. I’ve known a few who made it into the higher echelons of the flag officer corps despite their unwillingness to play the “political game”. Mike Flynn is one of those and so was LTG (Ret.) John “Jack” Woodmansee, my former division commander. When he was our division commander as a major general (two-star), we used to say of him, “He’ll never put on a third star; he’s too good an officer, too much of a soldier”, but he did.
Here’s a link to an article that Mike Flynn had published by the Center for a New American Security: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.cnas.org/documents/AfghanIntel_Flynn_Jan2010_code507_voices.pdf.
As a matter of policy and regulation, this should have been approved by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and SecDef, but it would have never seen the light of day in its original instantiation if it had gone through official channels, so then-Major General Flynn went around DoD to CNAS to ensure that it did. Despite that fact, Mike did put on a third star and was selected to lead the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), but he wasn’t a “Washington general”, so he was removed early.
Any testimony he gives on Capitol Hill should be very entertaining, so set your DVRs to record anytime he testifies in open session...