Flynn under fire for fake news

Posted by | December 6, 2016 09:24 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Trump’s pick for National Security Adviser will have to advise the president on the veracity of national security threats. Being a conspiracy theorist is not a good qualification for that job.

Flynn himself has used social media to promote a series of outrageous conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and their inner circles in recent months — pushing dubious factoids at least 16 times since Aug. 9, according to a POLITICO review of his Twitter posts. Flynn, who has 106,000 Twitter followers, has used the platform to retweet accusations that Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and has “secretly waged war” on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that Obama is a “jihadi” who “laundered” money for Muslim terrorists.

Now some say Flynn’s fondness for spreading fake news casts doubt on his fitness to serve as the White House’s national security adviser, suggesting that he either can’t spot a blatant falsehood or is just ideologically bent to believe the worst of his perceived enemies.

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11 responses to Flynn under fire for fake news

  1. Obewon December 6th, 2016 at 09:49

    It’s simple for any of their adversaries to plant faux news gobbled up by the Trumpies. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/99705f03ec4565e8465dd58e64e66c01c13f85757f27eb830a4f6eb421880225.jpg

  2. oldfart December 6th, 2016 at 12:50

    So in other words,
    He’ll pass republican senate confirmation with two thumbs up…

    • Foundryman December 6th, 2016 at 13:09

      Makes you wonder why democrats didn’t come out in droves to vote against these sleazeballs. Especially after the past 8 years.

      • oldfart December 6th, 2016 at 14:42

        Yes it does, But I’m not sure I want to know the reasons.

  3. Dennis Smith December 6th, 2016 at 13:37

    Exactly Budda CNN legitimizes these people and their slanderous rhetoric trying to make news exciting and peddles their efforts as “giving both sides equal coverage”. Fox just blatantly peddles the slander as fact, and 25% of the electorate swallow it while picking their noses and murmuring racial epitaphs

  4. Lyndia December 6th, 2016 at 14:56

    You have to be MIGHTY damn dumb, to believe this chit that Flynn’s son posted. Sex trafficking, President Obama is a Muslim (and so what if he is/was), war on the Catholic Church? This sounds like something from the Enquirer.

  5. StoneyCurtisll December 6th, 2016 at 15:42

    Sam Bee covered this last night….
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQyaUkg6eA

  6. amersham1046 December 6th, 2016 at 16:02

    A conspiracy theorist, rumor monger, bare faced liar, he will fit right in with Trump’s inner circle

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