Colin Powell Blasted Trump’s Chief Military Adviser As “Right-Wing Nutty,” “A Jerk”

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“He has been and was right-wing nutty every (sic) since,” Powell write in personal emails about retired Gen. Michael Flynn

Andrew Kaczynski
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Colin Powell, a retired four-star general who served under three Republican presidents, slammed Donald Trump’s closest military adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, as “right-wing nutty” and “a jerk” according to the former secretary of state’s personal emails seen by BuzzFeed News.

Flynn has been advising Trump and is a close confidant of the Republican nominee. Powell was discussing Flynn, who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for two years under president Obama with Powell’s son, former FCC chairman Michael Powell. The two Powells were discussing Flynn’s speech to the Republican National Convention, where he led a chant of “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton.

“I spoke at DIA last month,” Powell wrote in a July 19 email exchange with his son. “Flynn got fired as head of DIA. His replacement is a black Marine 3-star. I asked why Flynn got fired. Abusive with staff, didn’t listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc. He has been and was right-wing nutty every (sic) since. I watched about five minutes on line of his talked (sic) and switched off.”

The Washington Post reported when Flynn was forced out of the DIA that “critics said that his management style could be chaotic,” and he clashed with other senior intelligence officials. Flynn, when was being vetted as a possible vice presidential candidate for Trump, wrote in the New York Post that the “military fired me for calling our enemies radical jihadis.” In a profile of Flynn last month, the Washington Post spoke to a former senior U.S. intelligence official who disputed Flynn’s characterization of his firing, saying it was “about turbulence and a destructive climate” during his tenure.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/colin-powell-blasted-trumps-chief-military-advisor?utm_term=.wv32BlEopz#.xlaLJ6Er4R

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1. So, this RW nutty Flynn led a chant of 'lock her up" Damn--He belongs

in the basket of Deplorables! I noticed he was the moderator at the Vets Town Hall last week, I had watched about 10 minutes of it.

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2. REC

[Grins]

3. My experience...

My small experience with Army senior officers is that the Army really does not like to fire officers. On the one hand - do everything perfect and you may get that next star, on the other hand you are so afraid you might screw up so you don't do anything.

For a three-star to get canned is a BIG effing deal in the military! You have to really piss of some very senior people! It is not taken lightly because it sends a message everywhere.

And Obama didn't fire him; it was either the Army Chief of Staff, or (more likely) the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.