John Heilemann Quotes.
[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.
This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton.
Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.
[Dinner with Vladimir Putin has] raised a lot of eyebrows among national security officials who looked at [Michael Flynn] and thought these kind of behaviors were not what they had thought what he was like previously.
I don`t know who Donald Trump has in mind given that the circle of loyalists around him, the circle of people that he genuinely trusts is very small and getting smaller all the time.
[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt.
There`s a – kind of an undercurrent of the stories we read during the campaign of, [Michael Flynn] was a guy we thought we knew who seems to have changed in a profound way and become this much more kind of [ controversial] person .
[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew.
He is obviously an American hero. John McCain is a vanishing breed. He is an iconoclast, he is in his own mind and often in reality a maverick. And I think, you know, you having spent the time that you spent in the Senate know that this is true.
[Michael Flynn] has called President [Barack] Obama a liar.
[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.
I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that’s his view then that should be the rule of law.
In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.
To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.
[Michael Flynn is] someone who has advocated for a much tighter ties with Russia and had raised some eyebrows in terms of some of the consorting that he did around Washington.
