To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Stop retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's appointment to National Security Advisor
The National Security Advisor is the most important job in Washington after the President and President-elect Trump's appointee, retired General Lt. Michael Flynn, is unfit for the job. Flynn shares the same type of fake news that led a gunman to open fire in a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant on Dec 4th. We cannot afford to have such a gullible, paranoid, Islamaphobe in this most-critical post.
We join more than 50 nonprofits calling on Trump to rescind Flynn's nomination. Flynn has promoted fake news stories that Obama is a “jihadi” who “laundered” money for Muslim terrorists, that the Clintons committed “sex crimes with children” and “secretly waged war” on the Catholic Church. He joined chants of "Lock her up!" at the Republican National Convention. Since Aug. 9 he has promoted 16 fake news stories on Twitter.
Flynn tweeted that “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL” and voiced unusual views about a connection between China and terrorist organizations. He's retweeted anti-semitic posts. His murky relationship with Russia has been labeled by a Pentagon official as “extremely odd.” Flynn was dismissed from the Defense Intelligence Agency over abusive management tactics. One former colleague described him as “unable to draw consistent conclusions” and Colin L. Powell, Former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, called him “right-wing nutty.”
The National Security Advisor will have the last word on how the president should respond to international crises. The shooting of a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant on Dec. 4th was a wake up call that fake news stories can have very real consequences. President-elect Donald Trump's appointee for National Security Advisor has promoted these same kind of dangerous crackpot theories and he must be stopped from directing American military strategies in pursuit of a paranoid agenda. During a growing tide of nationalism around the world, the US needs a National Security Advisor who is level-headed, and retired General Lt. Michael Flynn is the opposite.
We join more than 50 nonprofits calling on Trump to rescind Flynn's nomination. Flynn has promoted fake news stories that Obama is a “jihadi” who “laundered” money for Muslim terrorists, that the Clintons committed “sex crimes with children” and “secretly waged war” on the Catholic Church. He joined chants of "Lock her up!" at the Republican National Convention. Since Aug. 9 he has promoted 16 fake news stories on Twitter.
Flynn tweeted that “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL” and voiced unusual views about a connection between China and terrorist organizations. He's retweeted anti-semitic posts. His murky relationship with Russia has been labeled by a Pentagon official as “extremely odd.” Flynn was dismissed from the Defense Intelligence Agency over abusive management tactics. One former colleague described him as “unable to draw consistent conclusions” and Colin L. Powell, Former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, called him “right-wing nutty.”
The National Security Advisor will have the last word on how the president should respond to international crises. The shooting of a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant on Dec. 4th was a wake up call that fake news stories can have very real consequences. President-elect Donald Trump's appointee for National Security Advisor has promoted these same kind of dangerous crackpot theories and he must be stopped from directing American military strategies in pursuit of a paranoid agenda. During a growing tide of nationalism around the world, the US needs a National Security Advisor who is level-headed, and retired General Lt. Michael Flynn is the opposite.
Why is this important?
The shooting of a Washington pizza restaurant on Dec. 4th was a wake up call that dangerous fake news stories can have very real consequences. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for National Security Advisor has promoted these same kinds of dangerous, crackpot theories and must be stopped from promoting this evidence-free world view on the world stage.