Life-long DEMOCRAT, Obama-appointee, Michael Flynn, similar to Paul Manafort, did indeed have troubling, or at least suspicious, ties to Russia. Both, I suspect, were part of the elaborate Democrat-Russia “collusion” hoax of making it APPEAR as if Trump was Putin’s guy, while, as an increasing body of evidence is showing, THEY (the Democrats) were actually the ones doing the colluding (with Russia). Clearly a highly sophisticated scheme, but not too out of the ordinary for the many KGB/FSB people in and around the Putin admin.
The Russians had a LOT on the line in our 2016 election. It should be a total no-brainer that the Russians would have waay more wanted a pathetically weak-on-defense, very accommodating (Uranium-One, etc) Hillary Clinton to win over a very strong-on-defense Trump-Pence. Obama-Biden-Clinton also helped Russia with their treasonous, or near-treasonous missle defense deal, New Start nuke treaty deal, AND the Obama-Kerry Iran deal.
Manafort had very close ties to the same pro-Russian people in the Ukraine as did Joe Biden’s son. Flynn was a regular guest on the state-owned and operated “news” (propaganda) media outlet Russia Today (RT). During a big anniversary gala for that state-run Russian media outfit he sat in a chair right alongside Putin.
Another person who attended the RT dinner was VIPS’ Ray McGovern.