IN yet another odd turn for the Trump state of mind, Politico says that he regrets firing Mike Flynn, despite most of the problems that he’s brought for the administration.
Two days after firing Michael Flynn as his national security adviser in February, President Donald Trump told several aides and friends he should have kept him instead.
Trump, several people close to him say, sometimes appears to question decisions even after they’ve been made. He told New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that he could still be labor secretary even after he’d publicly named Alexander Acosta to the role. He privately told former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani he could potentially still name him as attorney general after he’d offered Jeff Sessions to the job.
But the Flynn situation has been different, several officials and advisers said. “I was kind of stunned,” one person said. “I asked him. You fired him already. What are you going to do?”
This is pretty incredible given that Flynn lied to Pence, causing his dismissal, and had so many troubling connections to the Russians and other foreign governments. Trump can be very cold and calculating, but more often he’s just mercurial – whatever mood strikes him at a time is what he goes with.
This report jives with what happened right after he fired Flynn. Trump railed on the media, said Flynn was a good man, and that he was unfairly maligned by the press. It sounded like he was forced to fire him.
But later, when more revelations sprung up about Flynn’s illegal dealings with the government of Turkey, Sean Spicer said that Trump was brilliant for firing him, as if it was his own idea.
And throughout all of this it must be remembered that if it wasn’t for that leak about his lie to Mike Pence, he’d still be in the White House….
I don’t see a problem here. #MAGA!