Michael Flynn's Resignation Is the Best News of the Trump Presidency So Far
By Eric Levitz
February 14, 2017
12:34 p.m.
It isn’t easy to name President Trump’s scariest appointment. Deciding whether it’s worse to have Steve Bannon on the National Security Council — or Jeff Sessions running the Justice Department — is like deciding whether it’s worse to have El Chapo as your NA sponsor or Joseph Kony as your babysitter.
But before he was ousted for lying to the vice-president about his (potentially) illegal communications with a Russian ambassador, Michael Flynn had a strong case for being the worst of the worst. In a White House full of anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists, Flynn was quite likely the most paranoid; and almost certainly, the most powerful.
As national security adviser, Flynn worked in closer proximity to the Oval Office than other top foreign policy aides — a key distinction in a White House led by a man (infamously) predisposed to agree with the last person who spoke with him.
We can’t know precisely what bad ideas Flynn whispered into the president’s ear. But here’s a sampling of the ones he shouted into the public discourse:
1. Fear of Muslims is rational.
2. Democrats have imposed Sharia law in parts of Florida.
3. Barack Obama is a jihadi who laundered money for Muslim terrorists (to be fair, Flynn merely retweeted this sentiment).
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