Flynn's work as a foreign lobbyist is a well-established fact. The same goes for Manafort, by the way. Nobody who campaigns on "draining the swamp" should have men like this working for them. True enough. But if you give Trump the benefit of the doubt, how is he suppose to know Manafort and Flynn had issues? He fired Manafort right away once his Ukrainian ties became public. It will be interesting to see how this Turkey thing goes for Flynn. I always thought it was odd that he could run up $1M in legal bills over a few calls to a Russian ambassador.
I do give Trump the benefit of the doubt. He was not a politician and had no political apparatus in place when he ran for office, so he wasn't nearly as wise about the ways of Washington as someone else would have been. But that's a good reason to steer clear of anyone who has been entrenched in D.C. for years, isn't it?
If nothing else, I hope this will rid Trump of his delusion that everyone who wears a military uniform is an honorable man.