Posted on 12/05/2016 7:23:35 PM PST by Steelfish
53 Organizations To Trump: Dump Flynn As National Security Adviser
By Daniella Diaz December 5, 2016
Washington (CNN)Progressive organizations including MoveOn.org and J Street signed a letter with another 51 other nonprofit groups asking that President-elect Donald Trump dump Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.
"While deserving respect for the time he has served our country in uniform, we feel General Flynn is unfit for serving in this critical post," the organizations wrote in a statement. "His appointment will damage America's standing in the world and pose a threat to our national security."
Trump's transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment by CNN.
In the letter, the organizations list several reasons why they believe Flynn should not serve in this role, which does not require Senate confirmation, including mentioning past Islamaphobic statements he's made and for peddling anti-Muslim conspiracy theories.
"He has written that 'fear of Muslims is rational' and said that 'Islam is a political ideology' and 'a cancer' that 'hides behind being a religion,' and continuously peddles the nonsensical fear of 'Shariah law' spreading in the United States," the letter said.
It also cites two separate occasions that show his ties to foreign governments, including reporting from CNN's Barbara Starr where he leaked classified US intelligence to Pakistan and another CNN report when he was running a company that was lobbying on behalf of foreign clients even as he was receiving classified intelligence briefings during the campaign.
In the latter instance, Flynn's lobbying company, Flynn Intel Group, had ties to Turkish interests close to the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Some of the other organizations that signed the letter include Veterans For Peace, American Family Voices and Women's Action for New Directions.
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I am surprised that it is not 57 organizations that oppose General Flynn! ;-)
LULAC? OFA? LaRaza? ACORN? International ANSWER? Revcom? BLM?
How sweet.
CNN is supporting the notion that 53 subsidiary branches of the Democrat Party are non-partisan.
And they wonder why folks don’t trust them
This is becoming truly comic. The Democrats think they have some kind of veto over everyone that President Trump appoints. Not just to cabinet officers and others who must be confirmed by the senate, but everyone.
But their squeals are so universal that they are collectively looking like fools. They anguish over the colors of necktie he wears. They rend their clothing and cover their heads with ashes when decides to eat lunch not at a time of their choosing. They scream “racist” at him for choosing an “uncle Tom”, which they call any appointee who happens to be black.
The Democrats are becoming the definition of “sore losers”, with emphasis on both the “sore” and the “losers”.
So if Trump listens to these leftists, they’ll stop rioting and behave?
50 organizations? Trump cannot entertain ideas from anyone with a letterhead pretending to be some important organizations
Wow! 53 endorsements!
(are you seated?)
...Susan (Benghazi was a direct result of a heinous and offensive video, and was spontaneous, not preplanned) Rice.
The vote is 1 Aye and 53 nay.
The ayes win.
Memo To 53 Organizations:
To quote the vernacular of my misspent youth:
“Your $hit is WEAK!”...
Go screw yourselves with a Parking Meter!
Resume enhancer...
Note to all the Snowflakes and Buttercups looking for a safe place: Flynn is about to provide you with one, the Whole USA.
This nonsense of allowing communists to make up new names for themselves and walk around out in the open without fear has got to stop.
Those groups show that Trump made the right choice.
All the more reason Flynn is the right choice. Soros hates him.
No doubt a list of every disreputable leftist front
organization possible.
Trump should return it
postage due while smothering
them in effusive meaningless
blather.
They can SHUT UP! Move On, George Soros and fatso, caan stuff it.
Whoever makes the Demicans and Republicrats squeal loudest, is who I’m hoping Trump names.
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