People are demanding that Trump drop one of his closest advisers, Mike Flynn, from his administration.
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One of the reasons they cite is his advocacy of Turkey even as he was on the Trump presidential team. An op-ed in the Washington Post goes over more reasons to drop Flynn:
Flynn, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a retired lieutenant general, is already known for his bizarre tweets, not to mention his bizarre management style. (He was ousted by the Obama administration for the way he ran the DIA and for his odd judgment.) He was always an inappropriate choice for national security adviser, a post so powerful that it vies with secretary of state in influencing the president on foreign affairs and national security.
I hate to think how Flynn will be remembered. He is already known for believing that Islamic law was spreading in the United States and for claiming that Hillary Clinton was somehow responsible for the attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. Now, though, the New York Times reports that Flynn posted on Twitter a phony report that New York’s police and prosecutors “had found evidence linking Mrs., Clinton and much of her senior staff to pedophilia, money laundering, perjury and other felonies.”
And in fact, it was reported that Trump himself told Mike Flynn to get rid of his son over the controversy that erupted from his Pizza Gate tweets.
But I really doubt Trump will drop Flynn. Although he hates this kind of controversy – remember how he dropped Paul Manafort? – what he hates more is to give his opponents a victory they can lord over him.