Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials

[kage69]

I assume you're referring to this: https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/us-veterans-charity-george-bush-charged-100000/story?id=32251253

I really never pictured myself defending W.... He negotiated a speaker fee for a charity who paid it because they collected more in donations from his support than they paid for. Additionally, I don't see evidence that he did not believe in their cause. Neither do I see evidence that he cheated them (although the question of his "usual" fee is a valid one). I do not find fault in questioning his morals nor in veterans being upset that he charged, but this is not a failing of integrity.

At the least, I find it both wrong and dangerous to draw any moral equivalence between Trump and W.

No one is attempting to draw any equivalence here, I feel my quote citing integrity was quite specific. You've avoided all that danger I suppose. I also don't believe there is need to venture into areas of belief or fraud here either, it's quite simple really: Bush personally profited from the patronage of people he sent off to be injured, maimed and crippled. Iraq being an unnecessary war, that was foisted with manipulated intel, only to create the clusterfuck with ISIS, really adds that extra bit of WTF here too.

I'm not sure how the hell that passes the sniff test with you. I just don't see how a person with integrity could do that, particularly when they come from a wealthy family, have a lifetime annual 6-digit stipend, and are supposed to hold the military and vets in high esteem.

Guess I'm just nuts like that.

 

[cytg111]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ainst-hiring-mike-flynn-say-officials-n756316

Maybe he should have taken his advice. The winning competence of his personnel choices is nearly too much to bear.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/08/politics/obama-trump-michael-flynn/index.html

"But at least one former Obama official disputed that, saying Obama's concerns were not related to the firing of Flynn from the Defense Intelligence Agency but rather in the course of the investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 election."

And now Flynn has blown up in Trumps face over Russia.... Aaaand its Obamas fault.
Thanks Obama.

The mountain of lies to too big at this point... just waiting for Spicer to do the "Was Aliens" meme..

 

[alien42]

Republicans are ignoring the Russian attacks on our electorate in favor of exposing the leakers of the Flynn conversation with Kislyak.

if it were not for those leaks, Michael Flynn would still be our National Security Advisor.

i am so sick of the Republicans hypocrisy, it has come to the point of treason. the timeline Sally Yates laid out today makes the Trump administration look irresponsible, ignorant, untruthful, and most importantly unsafe to our national security.

for those who don't have time for all of today's hearing, i highly suggest watching Ted Cruz get owned by Yates, and remember that this is supposed to be about Russian attacks on our electorate.

 

[Balt]

This exactly. This is all Obama's fault. If Obama had just recommended that Trump hire Flynn, Trump wouldn't have hired him in the first place. Thanks Obama!

Unfortunately for him, Trump was still playing 21D chess while Obama was playing 22D chess.