Michael Flynn stopped Pentagon plan that would've affected Turkey... after being paid by Turkey

According to McClatchy, 10 days after Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn stopped a plan by the Pentagon to take over the city of Raqqa, in Syria, which was controlled by ISIS as its de-facto capital.

The problem is, stopping the plan was somthing Turkey wanted, as the plan would've helped Syrian Kurdish forces.

And the problem with that is Michael Flynn had taken half a million dollars in payment from Turkey before he became Trump's national security adviser.

In other words, Flynn action went according to the wishes of Turkey, but not according to the interests of the United States.

Why? Because the plan wasn't even Donald Trump's. It was developed during the Obama administration, but because the timing of the plan would've fallen under Trump's presidency, Obama asked Trump to execute the plan.

The decision came 10 days before Donald Trump had been sworn in as president, in a conversation with President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, who had explained the Pentagon’s plan to retake the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa with Syrian Kurdish forces whom the Pentagon considered the U.S.’s most effective military partners. Obama’s national security team had decided to ask for Trump’s sign-off, since the plan would all but certainly be executed after Trump had become president.

Flynn didn’t hesitate. According to timelines distributed by members of Congress in the weeks since, Flynn told Rice to hold off, a move that would delay the military operation for months.

And guess what? Trump went ahead with the plan only after Flynn was fired. Weeks after Flynn was fired, actually.

That was a clear conflict of interests and Trump went along with it. For less than that, the Republicans would've called for the impeachment of any Democratic president.