Ivanka Trump was instrumental in Michael Flynn becoming national security advisor, report says

[RandySF]

Friday brought another reminder that Ivanka Trump has massively downplayed her role in her father’s presidential campaign, transition and White House administration.

While Ivanka famously said she didn’t like to get involved much in politics, she and her husband Jared Kushner have been major influences in some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial hiring and firing decisions. That includes the decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, which led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Now it turns out that Ivanka Trump was instrumental in bringing Michael T. Flynn into her father’s administration to serve as national security advisor, according to a report in the New Yorker.

This report, from late October, is worth revisiting after Flynn on Friday pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador last December.



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[BigmanPigman]

1. I hope she rots in jail next to Big Daddy and

plastic husband.

[milestogo]

2. I'm sure she will do a good job decorating her prison cell.

[dalton99a]

3. 'General, what job do you want?'

Back in November 2016, three days after Trump won the election, Ivanka announced she had invited Flynn, a loyal supporter, to attend a transition meeting that was then chaired by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. At the time Ivanka had worked in her father’s real estate company and as a lifestyle entrepreneur but she had no experience in government service.Nonetheless, she was a member of the transition team’s executive council.

As Flynn walked in, Christie tried to regain control of the meeting, but Ivanka took over, Mayer reported.

Mayer described the scene this way:

“Praising Flynn’s ‘amazing loyalty to my father,’ (Ivanka) turned to Flynn and asked, ‘General, what job do you want?’ A participant at the meeting said, ‘It was like Princess Ivanka had laid the sword on Flynn’s shoulders and said, ‘Rise and go forth.'”