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DemocratSinceBirth

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Fri Dec 1, 2017, 10:47 AM Dec 2017

President Obama warned Trump about hiring Flynn





Washington (CNN)Then-President Barack Obama warned President-elect Donald Trump in November against hiring retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, former Obama administration officials confirmed to CNN Monday.

Obama warned Trump about Flynn during their Oval Office meeting on November 10, days after Trump was elected president.
"Given the importance of the job, the President through there were better people for it, and that Flynn wasn't up for the job," a former senior Obama administration official told CNN Monday.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/08/politics/obama-trump-michael-flynn/index.html
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President Obama warned Trump about hiring Flynn (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2017 OP
President Obama probably knew that trump would immediately hire flynn if he said that spanone Dec 2017 #1
Yep. dalton99a Dec 2017 #3
Flynn should lose his retirement pension. Traitor general. pwb Dec 2017 #2
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