Donald Trump Talked Michael Flynn Into White House Job—and Wants Him Back in the Administration

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SOURCE: DAILY BEAST

URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/0e1acc21-5368-3151-b009-aeeaefc14a3f/donald-trump-talked-michael.html

by Lachlan Markay

President Donald Trump pressured a “reluctant” Michael Flynn into accepting a job as the White House’s top national security official even after Flynn warned the president that he was under investigation over undisclosed lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, The Daily Beast has learned.

The president's continued loyalty to his ousted former aide is so strong, in fact, that the two have remained in touch despite the potential that their communication could be portrayed as White House interference in a federal investigation. “He did not want to be National Security Adviser,” Michael Ledeen, a friend of the retired Army general, told The Daily Beast on Thursday." “He didn’t want to be in the government. He wanted to go back to private life.”

Now both men could pay a huge price for it.

“He did not want to be national security adviser,” Michael Ledeen, a friend of the retired Army general, told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “He didn’t want to be in the government. He wanted to go back to private life.”

“But Trump insisted on it,” said historian Ledeen, co-author of Flynn’s 2016 book The Field of Fight, their manifesto for defeating Islamic militancy. “He likes him, he trusted him, he was comfortable with him,” he said.

Flynn was “reluctant but honored” when offered the post, according to a senior Trump administration official, and only accepted it at the president’s urging.

A third source with direct knowledge of Trump transition team discussions confirmed that Flynn did not want the national security adviser post, though he claimed Flynn was instead hoping for a position in the intelligence community, preferably director of national intelligence or the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Trump’s pressuring of Flynn to take the job came even though Flynn had informed the Trump transition team that he was under active FBI investigation over undisclosed lobbying on behalf of a Dutch company—lobbying that, Flynn now admits, may have advanced the interests of the Turkish government.

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[kevindavis007]

I'm sure the Deep State is at fault here... 

[geronl]

Proof of insanity

[Night Hides Not]

I'm sure the Deep State is at fault here...

Flynn is a dues paying member of the Deep State.

When I see him, I'm immediately reminded of Colonel Flagg in MASH.

[ConservativeGranny]

"though he claimed Flynn was instead hoping for a position in the intelligence community, preferably director of national intelligence or the director of the Central Intelligence Agency."

Knowing what we now know about Flynn that is a very frightening thought.