Ivanka Trump was instrumental in Michael Flynn becoming national security adviser, report says

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Friday brought another reminder that Ivanka Trump may have massively downplayed her role in her father’s presidential campaign, transition and White House administration.

While Ivanka famously said she didn’t like to get involved much in politics, it appears now that she and her husband Jared Kushner have been major influences in some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial hiring and firing decisions, including the decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, which led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Now it turns out that Ivanka Trump was instrumental in bringing Michael T. Flynn into her father’s administration to serve as national security adviser, according to a report in the New Yorker.

This report, from late October, is worth revisiting after Flynn on Friday pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador last December.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/01/ivanka-trump-was-instrumental-in-michael-flynn-becoming-national-security-advisor-report-says/