Officially, Trump says he doesn’t need to be briefed daily because he’s smart and doesn’t like to be told the same thing every day. There will be no more Daily Presidential Brief, at least not one with an actual briefer who can answer questions or be tasked with follow-ups. So, it seems natural that Flynn won’t want pesky intelligence briefers putting sane and contradictory ideas in the president’s head. The room fell silent, as employees processed the lecture from their new boss. His staff would know they were right, he said, when their views melded to his. Flynn said that the first thing everyone needed to know was that he was always right. The following is an excerpt from a December 3rd profile on Flynn in the New York Times.ĭuring a tense gathering of senior officials at an off-site retreat, he gave the assembled group a taste of his leadership philosophy, according to one person who attended the meeting and insisted on anonymity to discuss classified matters. That should work out very well.īack in 2012, when Flynn took over the Defense Intelligence Agency, he made it clear that he’s not interested in being contradicted. Subsequently, Chris Christie has been sidelined and publicly humiliated, while Michael Flynn has been elevated to be our next National Security Adviser. Two sources said Christie, the New Jersey governor and Trump adviser, verbally restrained Flynn - one saying Christie told Flynn to shut up, the other reporting he said, “Calm down.” Two other sources said Christie touched Flynn’s arm in an effort get him to calm down and let the officials continue. …Meanwhile, four people with knowledge of the matter told NBC News that one of the advisers Trump brought to the briefing, retired general Mike Flynn, repeatedly interrupted the briefing with pointed questions. Four sources with knowledge of the briefing - including two intelligence officials who spoke to people in the room - said Flynn repeatedly interrupted the briefers until New Jersey Gov. Michael Flynn, one of the advisers Trump brought to the briefing, and the officials who conducted the briefing.
Six current and former senior officials said they were aware of friction between retired Gen. He mostly blew that opportunity off, probably because early meetings didn’t go too well, For example, right after Labor Day, this happened: Donald Trump had an opportunity to get intelligence briefings once he won the Republican Party’s nomination.
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