Posted on 07/05/2016 9:48:12 AM PDT by monkapotamus
WASHINGTON — A top military adviser to Donald Trump is being vetted to be his running mate, The Post has learned.
The outspoken and brash Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn — who was forced out of his post by the Obama administration in 2014 after pointing out the rising global jihadist threat — has already briefed the Republican presidential candidate on several occasions and is in close touch with high levels of Trump’s staff...
Although Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, made a name for himself speaking out against his former boss, he is not treating his potential future boss the same way.
“One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion,” Flynn told The Post, coyly declining to comment on being vetted by Trump.
“All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the US Army,” he said. “I’ve been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief...”
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How about head of Homeland Security? The current staff doesn’t seem to know the meaning of those words.
How did that work out for Buchanan?
According to whom? You're not relying on the idiot drive-by's for truth, are you? I mean, anyone other than a reporter would realize that there are many positions to be filled, and just because someone's being interviewed doesn't automatically mean it's for the VP slot...
Maybe put Flynn at DOD.
You can count on him to make a sterling selection that will shock and awe the pinheads and have Team Trump doing cartwheels.
It's just how he rolls...
I think that he might be best serving as National Security Advisor...though having someone with his background as the Veep would send a message to the world that we are NOT going to take any crap from anyone. He’d also be good at advising Trump which generals to keep, and which to get rid of (and colonels, too - they are the follow-on echelon, the future generals, so let’s weed out the power-hungry proto-fascists that the next Dem President would need to de-ball the military).
Yeah, I gotcha. Interesting.
It’s ‘little people’!
Cool. A military defector from the enemy. We need more of them.
I like this guy. Standing with a patriot would be good.
At best, we present a schizophrenic message to the world...that we will vigorously pursue foreign policy to protect ourselves, and then elect someone to undo it all and leave our allies holding the bag alone, amongst the homicidal nuts.
All those medals and Ike only had 3 rows?
here is his Wiki bio, he has been an intel type so he is not eligible for the CIB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_T._Flynn
He did spend a tour in Germany as an employee of the US Army.
I think that Trump will come closer to the view that we need to jointly act with our allies to F up our enemies as far away from our shores as possible. He’ll never be interventionist, but I don’t see that as necessarily bad. Sometimes it is the smart thing to do, sometimes it has severe repercussions for decades or longer. Trump isn’t stupid, and he WILL be getting advice from every point of view (that’s the only sensible thing to do, and he regularly does it in his business).
He’s wearing a Ranger tab and a Master Parachutist Badge. Both pretty well combat related. And whatever else he’s wearing. I really don’t care one way or another, because they are all crooked. As I said, I was just saying.
YESS !!
Trump has a reputation of hiring smart people!
Lieutenant General Flynn as VP would be a smart move, IMHO.
Show those Islamic bastards that WE MEAN TO KICK YOUR ASS!
Except I just now found out that General Flynn is pro-choice.
Someone needs to get to him on that issue! Perhaps he can be convinced of the error of his ways — that pro-choice is the lifeblood of the LIEberal establishment.
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