Trump claims no one told him not to hire Michael Flynn. Obama did.

Authored by theweek.com and submitted by BlankVerse

If only someone who wasn't former President Barack Obama had raised some red flags about Michael Flynn.

On Friday, President Trump dug up an old complaint about his quickly disgraced national security adviser, tweeting that "it now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge" and questioning why he wasn't told about it. Except it's public knowledge that Obama fired Flynn, and that he warned Trump against bringing him back on.

It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge. It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 17, 2019

Trump's tweet disregards a two-year-old NBC News report that said Obama told Trump not to hire Flynn "less than 48 hours" after Trump won the presidency. Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer later admitted that Trump knew Obama "wasn't exactly a fan" of Flynn.

Trump hired and quickly fired Flynn as national security adviser in the early days of his presidency. Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, and eventually gave interviews to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Trump's tweet is likely tied to the Thursday revelation that Flynn told investigators that people with ties to the Trump administration and Congress contacted him in an attempt to interfere with the Russia probe. Mueller included that information in newly unredacted court papers. Kathryn Krawczyk

rusticgorilla on May 17th, 2019 at 18:29 UTC »

Obama warned Trump in Nov 2016 (Hope Hick and Steve Bannon both told the FBI that Trump was stewing about the warning in December 2016) Pence was warned by Elijah Cummings in Nov 2016 Chris Christie warned him (and says his warnings were a reason he was fired from Trump team) Sally Yates warned him (and Trump waited weeks before finally terminating Flynn) Flynn himself told McGahn he was under investigation "weeks before Trump's inauguration)

Edited to add links. /r/keep_track

truffs1010 on May 17th, 2019 at 18:24 UTC »

Chris Christie also told him.

Elijah Cummings wrote to Pence

https://twitter.com/NanabananaNancy/status/1129418898313318401

rachel32socal on May 17th, 2019 at 17:56 UTC »

Obama told Trump not to hire Flynn less than 48 hours after Trump won the presidency

Trump's memory must not be that great after all. How convenient to forget things so selectively like that.