To be very honest with you, Flynn was the wrong choice for our President to make. He, in my opinion, carried a grudge against obama and clintons.
With his inability to be submissive or even appear to be, his future in the government was doomed. A little history on him, as you know he ran DIA in DC and was forced into retirement by non other than James Clapper and Michael Vickers. His mentor was a man named Stanley McChrystal. Most people who have not worked in DC or the IC would not recognize his name, but he too was forced into retirement by none other than Clapper and Vickers. Rumor had it, that both individuals were forced out at the bidding of obama. His dissatisfaction with the obama administration became quite clear during the 2016 campaign where he often repeated that obama was a “weak and spineless” leader who “coddles” terrorists and brought mayhem to our streets with his “fumbling indecisiveness,” “willful ignorance” and “total incompetence.” Clinton should not only be locked up for her careless handling of classified emails, he has repeatedly said, but she is also “somebody who will leave Americans behind on the battlefield.”
I can not say that I disagree with what he had to say, but I do think that he doomed himself and had it not been for charges of collusion with Russians trying to bring down clinton, something else would have forced him out of office. That is just the way DC works. When you get on a "S" list, you never recover. On many accounts he was so very right... He wanted us to understand why we can not win in the ME, or even defeat ISIS.
Flynn is quoted: “Over the course of all those interrogations, I concluded that ‘core Al Qaeda’ wasn’t actually comprised of human beings, but rather it was an ideology with a particular version of Islam at its center. More than a religion, this ideology encompasses a political belief system, because its adherents want to rule things—whether it’s a village, a city, a region or an entire ‘caliphate.’ And to achieve that goal, they are willing to use extreme violence. The religious nature of that threat makes it very hard for Americans to come to grips with.” Europe is learning how right he was.
Did he have inappropriate contact with Russians. I sincerely doubt it. He had a deep disdain and distrust of Russians in general. In one interview that I recall, he is quoted: "Putin is a totalitarian dictator and a thug who does not have our interests in mind. So I think Trump calling him a strong leader has been overstated, I’ll give you that. But Putin is smart and savvy, and he has taken actions in Ukraine and elsewhere that have limited our options, and the U.S. and NATO response has been timid. I think Trump’s strength lies in being a master negotiator, and he wants as many options as possible in dealing with Russia.”
Bottom-line, Flynn made an excellent "fall guy" for Democrats to target.
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