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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump blames Obama for not warning him about Michael Flynn. Which Obama did.
President Donald Trump wants you to believe that he had no way of knowing about former national security adviser Michael Flynns shady dealings with Russia before he made him his first national security adviser. In reality, the president is trying to rewrite history.
On Friday, Trump tweeted his lament that nobody warned him about Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general who was dismissed from his job as director of national intelligence by then-President Barack Obama in 2014. After his dismissal, Flynn wasted little time cozying up to the Kremlin, and then spent 2016 as one of Trumps key campaign surrogates.
It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge, Trump tweeted. It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change?
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But news reports indicate otherwise. CNN, citing former Obama administration officials, reported on May 17, 2017, that during a White House meeting days after Trumps election, Obama told him that given the importance of the [national security adviser] job, the president through there were better people for it, and that Flynn wasnt up for the job. But Trump proceeded with hiring Flynn anyway. Former New Jersey governor and longtime Trump confidant Chris Christie has also said he directly advised Trump against hiring Flynn.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/trump-blames-obama-for-not-warning-him-about-michael-flynn-which-obama-did/ar-AABvR79?li=BBnb7Kz
Dumbshit
Beartracks
(12,835 posts)Either because Trump just wanted to be the anti-Obama... or Trump actually wanted an unfit, Russian-friendly national security advisor.
That's my take.
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delisen
(6,046 posts)because he says in his tweet "with me being one of two people who would become president."
I think Barr and Trump's obfuscating attempt to "investigate the investigators" is aimed at the campaign period.
Please correct me if I am wrong.