Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency has been a consistent voice for Trump's military positions. First for you to know, he was fired from his position in Defense Intelligence Agency by President Obama in 2014. Reports were he was an extremist in leadership methods, interrogation, pushing for field operations (though his position did not support his interference in this).
He could not be named as Secretary of Defense without a waiver from Congress because of a seven-year rule for retired officers. Avoiding this, according to the New York Times, Flynn has been chosen as National Security Advisor.
Who is he?
On this site, Tanya Melich, who is known as the first person to coin the phrase, "Republican War Against Women," recounted the first day of #RNCinCLE and wrote these word about Flynn. We need to remember them now and oppose Flynn's nomination. In our addendum below, we also post a tweet he made this summer -'The USSR is to blame!' … Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore."
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Watching the Republican convention yesterday made me physically sick. Trump, guided by aides who had been Nixon acolytes in the Watergate scandal, had choreographed an ugly show of fear and hate. The evening was described as "Make America Safe Again." It should have been labeled "Make America Frightened Again."
Trump presented a sinister production that reached its climax with the ranting of retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn who encouraged the delegates to consider America going to war so Trump could lead the nation to victory.
Flynn called on Hillary "to leave this race now" and like a high school cheerleader exhorted the delegates in sing-song chant: "Lock her up. Lock her up." ending with "Wake up America. You can't sit this one out". (While he seemed to be referring to delegates working in the election, I got the sense he was also talking about a war on Islamists and illegal immigrants.)
Flynn reminds one of General Curtis Le May who wanted to use nuclear weapons against the Russians and was the prototype for the nuke-tough American general in the Dr. Strangelove movie. That Flynn is a defense advisor to Trump and was reputed to have been seriously considered to be Trump's running mate requires one to seriously pause. Would Flynn be Secretary of Defense in a Trump administration?
If you want to read and remember what the RNC was about, click to read Tanya's full post here. But take away from this post, we have to say #NeverMichaelFlynn
#stopMichaelFlynn
Read his anti-Semitic tweet below.
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November 18, 2016
Addendum. Michael Flynn tweeted this Anti-Semitic remark on J
Less than a week after giving a frightening speech at the Republican National Convention, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is catching heat for sharing with his Twitter followers — as Donald Trump has in the past — an anti-Semitic message.
Flynn was responding Sunday to an assertion by Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, on CNN that Russia was behind the hack and release of tens of thousands of internal Democratic National Committee emails .
"The corrupt Democratic machine will do and say anything to get #NeverHillary into power. This is a new low," he tweeted, sharing a link to a tweet from a user named Saint Bibiana (@30PiecesofAG_) who wrote ">Cnn implicated. 'The USSR is to blame!' … Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore."
That user's tweet linked to a post from CNN Politics sharing the clip of Mook's remarks.
The next day, Flynn retreated from the Tweet.
