Campaigns Quote by John Heilemann

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

[Michael Flynn is] someone who has advocated for a much tighter ties with Russia and had raised some eyebrows in terms of some of…

— John Heilemann

[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of…

— John Heilemann

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

— John Heilemann

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.

— John Heilemann

One more point I'll just make about [Michael] Flynn is that we're already seeing, and we've seen Democrats come forward and start to express…

— Kristen Welker

Michael Flynn was one of Trump's top national security advisors throughout the campaign.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up" about Hillary…

— John Heilemann

The extraordinary thing that we saw here is the incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, basically having a text messages back and forth with…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

General Mike Flynn obviously was dealing with Russia. So that's one person. But he was dealing, as he should have been.

— Donald Trump

“Bannon’s presence on the council was just as much driven by the need to babysit the impetuous Flynn, prone to antagonizing almost everyone else…

— Michael Wolff