General Michael T Flynn has officially pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over his Russian contacts. He is said to be co-operating with investigators in the #TrumpRussia probe.

During the campaign, @realDonaldTrump promised his followers that he would hire the best people and when General Flynn resigned, he defended him up until today, when he tried to distance himself from the real truth.
5 times Trump defended Flynn http://politi.co/2Aot2ky

Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired three-star Army Lieutenant General, who served for 33 years from 1981 until 2014. His military career included a key role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he was given numerous combat arms, conventional, and special operations senior intelligence assignments. Flynn was appointed by President Barack Obama as the eighteenth director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, serving from July 2012 until August 2014.

Back in the 1950's a novel was written about an American citizen who challenged the entrenched interests over priorities and found himself embroiled in controversy. The Ugly American depicted the failures of the US foreign diplomats, whose insensitivity to their assigned nation's local language, culture, customs and a moronic refusal to integrate was a disaster. Does any of this sound familiar?

Although he has only been in office for ten months, Donald Trump’s presidency has had a major impact on how the world sees the United States.