Unlike Trump, Flynn has also said he “would love to see” Israel disarmed of its nuclear weapons.
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“I think women have to be able to choose – what they, sort of the right of choice”, Flynn said in an interview with ABC. His choice is expected to be announced before the Republican National Convention kicks off in Cleveland on July 18.
In an interview with the New York Post, the retired general did not deny being vetted and signaled that he would willingly serve as Trump’s vice presidential nominee. He also supports Donald Trump’s plan of stepped-up deportation because illegal immigrants are not allowed in the country (via USA Today).
While Flynn shares numerous same criticisms over the fight against radical Islam and us intervention in Libya that Trump has lobbed at the Obama administration, he appears to favor a more internationalist approach to combating terrorism and engaging with other countries.
Flynn also refused to directly defend Trump’s claim that the Black Lives Matter movement is “a disgrace”, saying, “I’m not going to speak for Donald Trump”. “Putting Flynn on the ticket would be a bold test of that theory”.
The other was U.S. Navy vice admiral James Stockdale, who was Ross Perot’s running mate in 1992.
Flynn says he is not opposed to same-sex marriage, something that won’t sit well with evangelical Republican-base voters skeptical of Trump’s new-found conservatism.
Meanwhile, General Flynn is honored about the rumors that he might be Donald Trump’s running mate.
Flynn has served in recent months as an adviser to Trump, whom he said has the “responsible leadership” to serve in the White House.
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“There’s one race that we have to worry about, and that’s the human race”, he said.
Flynn’s belief that stability in the region requires a long-term effort was held while he was still in uniform. “If people are serious about it, you know, I have to be serious about it”, said Flynn, who said the USA was “going in the wrong direction”. This vision of an America pursuing its goals unconstrained by the norms of worldwide law is very much in keeping with Trump’s radical nationalism.
Gen. Flynn did not stop there and went on calling out Federal Bureau of Investigation for not recommending prosecution over the news that Clinton used her private email while serving as secretary of state (via USA Today).
Despite serving as the Pentagon’s top intelligence officer, Flynn has slammed the Obama administration for its handling of the fight against ISIS and echoed Trump in denouncing Obama’s terminology for the terrorist group.
We have to – we can not keep having these types of events in our country, whether it’s a Islamic terrorist attack or whether it’s an attack on our law enforcement professionals in this country.
He also blasted US leaders for failing to design a strategy and argued they “timidly nibble around the edges of the battlefields from Africa to the Middle East”.
During his long military career, he seldom voted, he added. “And we’re going to open our country up and we’re going to be a huge jobs producer again instead of having bad jobs”.
On the decision to invade Iraq, Flynn said, “History will not be and should not be kind with that decision”.
Flynn told Russia Today in an interview published on December 10 that the United States and Russia should work together to resolve the Syrian civil war and defeat ISIS.
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Flynn seemed to echo this sentiment while appearing on Al Jazeera English in May.
