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Trump Adviser Has Pushed Clinton Conspiracy Theories
Trump Adviser Has Pushed Clinton Conspiracy Theories
WASHINGTON — For Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who is President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, pushing conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton is a family affair: Both he and his son, Michael G. Flynn, have used social media to spread fake news stories linking Mrs. Clinton to underage sex rings and other serious crimes, backed by no evidence.
The Twitter habits of both men are attracting renewed attention after a man fired a rifle on Sunday inside Comet Ping Pong, a Washington pizza restaurant that was the subject of false stories during the campaign tying it and the Clinton campaign to a child sex trafficking ring.
Well before he joined the Trump campaign, the elder Mr. Flynn, 57, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, pushed unsubstantiated claims about Islamic law’s spreading in the United States and about the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. But in his emergence this year as the angry former general out to help Mr. Trump clean up Washington, Mr. Flynn added wild stories about Hillary Clinton to his stock of unproven tales.
Six days before the election, for instance, Mr. Flynn posted on Twitter a fake news story that claimed the police and prosecutors in New York had found evidence linking Mrs. Clinton and much of her senior campaign staff to pedophilia, money laundering, perjury and other felonies.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Trump Adviser Has Pushed Clinton Conspiracy Theories
Having this man as National Security Advisor is about as scary as they come. Think of the likes of DR. Henry Kissinger as one of the previous advisors and this is now how low we've come. Where is the outrage in the press? In the American people? Is our new low in the U. S. tweeting unsubstantiated information by the president-elect and his appointees and finding it acceptable?
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One thing for certain,Mr. Trump has got to be a lot more careful with how he gets information.
The number of untrue things he seems to believe is frightening.
‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Trump Adviser Has Pushed Clinton Conspiracy Theories
Unfortunately making offensive and false statements especially in this election cycle so far has not made any difference.
This man was likely a very good military person, but his statements should totally disqualify him for the position IMHO. As a matter of fact, this type of mentality in National Security area is actually scary.
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The more that comes about about Flynn and Flynn Jr the more I hope he does not get through the nomination process.
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Geez, dad and son appear to be rather unhealthy carbon-based life forms. I realize the Trump team has scoured the nation for responsible team players for his future administration, but hey, I could probably do better by opening a phone book and pointing to a random person blindfolded.
To find dudes like this you'd really have to put some effort into it, I guess.
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So, a madman is advising the new President?
Isn't that just ducky
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No, Goose, a madman is advising another madman who will soon take an oath under false pretenses.
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Re: Trump Adviser Has Pushed Clinton Conspiracy Theories
Michael Flynn once claimed Arabic signs on southern border guide 'radicalized Muslims' into US
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