General Mike Flynn Announces He’s READY to Return as President Trump’s National Security Advisor

by Jim Hᴏft May. 6, 2025 3:20 pm (I think Flynn should sit this one out, too much drama)1/2

General Michael Flynn has declared his readiness to return to the White House as President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor.

On Monday, the decorated combat veteran and former National Security Advisor under President Trump took to X with a powerful statement:

“For over four decades, I’ve dedicated my life to serving this great nation, from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to the halls of Washington.

Whether in uniform, in government, or as a private citizen, my commitment to America and its people has never wavered.

I’ve faced challenges, taken hits, and become stronger, always driven by a deep love for this country and its values.

This love for our nation, for its people, and for its values is what fuels my commitment. If called upon, I’ll protect our nation’s security and ensure our enemies know we mean business.

But no matter where I stand, inside or outside government, I’ll keep fighting for the America we all cherish. That’s my promise, and I’m not done yet.”

Flynn’s announcement comes as the National Security Advisor position once again becomes vacant following President Trump’s decision to remove Mike Waltz.

Flynn made his intentions crystal clear during a sit-down with Benny Johnson. In a no-holds-barred interview, Flynn didn’t just say he’s ready—he issued a warning to the enemies of America’s constitutional republic:

Johnson pointedly asked Flynn if President Trump had reached out to ask him to return as National Security Advisor, a role from which he was railroaded by the Obama holdovers and their media lackeys back in 2017. Flynn’s response was firm.

Benny Johnson:

I want to put up this post from you yesterday that excited our production team very much. You said, “I am ready to serve.” Now, the National Security Advisor role is open as of last week. You were in that role, and you served in that role—if you don’t mind me framing it this way—until the deep state took you out as enemy number one. Now you’re saying that you’re prepared to reenter that role. That’s the first question.Question number two: Have you been contacted by President Trump to reenter the White House as the National Security Advisor?

Flynn:

I answer the first question—yes.The second question—no. I’ve been watching everything, listening, and observing intensely because I do believe, as I just went through my diatribe with you, that we are in a place where we cannot afford to have, as Trump likes to say, unforced errors. We cannot afford to drop a glass ball right now.

I’m a guy—I’m serving now, Benny. I’m serving now. I serve in just a different way. I have been engaging people in government. I’m still out doing stuff, so I’m serving. I think that’s my message to every American: How are you serving this country? Because every American needs to serve this country, whether you’re inside the government or outside the government.

But I’m a guy with a lot of background, a lot of skills, and I didn’t go off into the sunset and go, “Woe is me.” I’m paying close attention to what’s happening around the world and certainly in our country. I know we have great leaders out there. We have a lot of leaders who want to serve inside the government. There are a lot of people who have reached out to me to help get their name put forward for some position in the government, and I’ve done that.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/general-mike-flynn-announces-hes-ready-return-as/

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I’ve let it be known. At this point, sometimes the President—he’s got a decision to make. And whatever he does, I’m going to continue to fight for this country.

Frankly, I don’t know—maybe I’m designed that way, maybe I’m designed differently.

That’s the way I was. I was born on an army base. I served in the military all my adult life. I’ve been to combat. I know the world. I’ve lived on or visited six continents. I’ve served in different critical jobs.

Yeah, is there a group of people in the deep state that fear me? You damn right they do. They fear me for a good reason. The media? You think the media—oh my God, the mainstream media—they would blow a gasket. I would love to just see that. I mean, whatever. But I do know exactly what I’m talking about, and I know what I would do. That I can guarantee.

Benny Johnson:

…Do you have any news to break on this program, General?

Flynn:

Well, I would say to you, Benny, that I am ready. I am ready to come out of that glass, that is for sure.

There’s no doubt about it. I actually think that the nation—and Trump is doing wonderful things—but what Chairman Comer just talked about, among other things, we are still in a massive, massive ideological war going on in this country.

There aren’t going to be any friendlies if we get to another election and we lose the majority in the House of Representatives—never mind the next presidential election.

In March, Trump took to Truth Social to announce a powerhouse new Board of Visitors for West Point, the United States Military Academy.

His choices sent the mainstream media into a tailspin, as they included true America-First warriors like General Michael Flynn, Maureen Bannon, and others.

“I am pleased to announce a new Board of Visitors for our Nation’s oldest Military Academy, West Point. Major General David Bellavia, Lieutenant General Dan Walrath, General Michael Flynn, Congressman Wesley Hunt, Maureen Bannon, and Meghan Mobbs are hereby appointed to the Board. They will make our Country proud. Congratulations to all!” – President Donald J. Trump

Additionally, back in February, Trump addressed the crowd on the Mar-a-Lago patio, where he praised General Flynn and revealed that he had offered him “about 10 different jobs.”

“Let me tell you, this guy—he’s the real deal. He’s a real general. I told him I offered him about 10 jobs. I think he’s doing so well he doesn’t need them. But I offered. I said, “Anytime you want to come in, you know that, Mike, okay?”

And just take care of yourself. Good luck, everybody! Have a good time. Thank you, thank you!”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/general-mike-flynn-announces-hes-ready-return-as/

Confirm Ed Martin, Rand Paul Writes to Senate Republicans: He ‘Will Restore Lawful Order to Our Capital City’

Bradley Jaye 6 May 2025

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote to his Republican Senate colleagues Tuesday afternoon urging them to confirm a critical President Donald Trump nominee.

Trump appointed Ed Martin as interim United States Attorney for Washington, DC, within minutes of his inauguration on January 20, and later formally nominated him. But Martin’s interim tag expires May 20, and the Senate has not yet confirmed his nomination.

If the Senate fails to act soon, “[u]nder current law, the Attorney General may appoint an individual to fill a vacant U.S. Attorney position for up to 120 days,” Paul writes. “After 120 days, the district court may appoint a U.S. Attorney to serve until a nominee is formally appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.”

Judge James Boasberg, who has earned the ire of Trump and his supporters, leads the district court. Breitbart News reported Monday that Boasberg ultimately could choose the U.S. Attorney if the Senate fails to act.

“We cannot risk appointment of another U.S. Attorney who refuses to pursue criminal prosecutions,” Paul warns his colleagues.

Sen. Thom Tillis announced Tuesday morning that he is opposed to Martin’s nomination, confirming a story first reported by Breitbart News.

Tillis, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which must consider Martin’s nomination, was seen as the pivotal Senator on the issue, which Breitbart News also reported. Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was thought to be unlikely to advance Martin’s nomination before the committee if Tillis indicated he would cast the deciding vote against Martin.

Yet senators rallied around Martin Tuesday, with the White House continuing to push Tillis and other Republican Senators.

Paul’s letter is another momentum boost for Martin.

The Kentucky Senator writes he has “known Ed for over a decade and can attest to the fact he is a man of principle, which I believe will lead him to serve his country with honor.”

Paul continues that Trump’s nominee has always “placed the good of the public before everything else and he understands the difference between political advocacy and serving the people.”

Paul warns that Washington, DC, could descend again into a cycle of crime and lawlessness if Martin’s nomination is defeated – and Boasberg chooses the next U.S. Attorney for the district. A return to past crime trends fueled by Democrat soft-on-crime policies would be hugely detrimental and dangerous as Washington prepares to host millions of additional tourists to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday in 2026.

“President Trump and I have the utmost confidence that Mr. Martin will restore lawful order to our capital city,” Paul’s letter closes. “The Senate should confirm Mr. Martin before his appointment expires.”

Letter from Sen. Rand Paul to Senate colleagues by Breitbart News on Scribd

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/06/confirm-ed-martin-rand-paul-writes-to-senate-republicans-he-will-restore-lawful-order-our-capital-city/

DOGE Says It Has Saved over $1,000 Per Taxpayer

Hannah Knudsen 6 May 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) says it has officially saved over $1,000 per taxpayer.

DOGE says its estimated total savings has now reached $165 billion. This is all a combination of “asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions,” according to the official DOGE website.

However, that cost savings breaks down to $1,024.84 per taxpayer, and DOGE calculates that figure by accounting for approximately 161 million individual federal taxpayers in the U.S.

Currently, DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” lists 9,497 terminated contracts totaling $32 billion in savings alone. $2,902,177,561.72 in savings comes from a canceled Department of Interior contract with the following description:

Office of Refugee Resettlement Influx Care Facility. Influx Care Facility (ICF) for up to 3,000 unaccompanied alien children (UAC). The contract provided facilities and full wraparound child care and case management services.

DOGE also displays 11,654 grant terminations totaling $37 billion in savings, along with 592 lease terminations totaling $291 million in savings.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stands as number one on the agency leaderboard in terms of generating savings, followed by the General Services Administration (GSA), Department of Education, and Office of Personnel Management. Federal agencies generating the least savings include the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Energy, NASA, and the Department of Transportation.

Despite the Department of Transportation showing up on the poorer side of the leaderboard, it is still generating savings. DOGE recently praised DOT along with its leader, Secretary Sean Duffy, for cancelling seven “wasteful grants with award value of $54M and savings of $51M.”

These grants included $6 million for what DOGE described as “collaborative planning to address safety concerns of women and gender non-conforming people,” $12 million for “accelerating equitable decarbonization, and $6 million for “hyperlocal pollution exposure inequalities” in New York City.

“The @USDOT is working hard to cut waste and will have more to report over the coming weeks!” DOGE added.

Stephen Ehikian, Acting GSA Administrator, also bragged about the organization’s savings, announcing on Monday that GSA slashed $30 billion in “governmentwide contracts” as well as “initiated procurement consolidation and deregulation, accelerated technology modernization, contributed to 5 Presidential Executive Orders, worked to eliminate ideological capture, and much more” in President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/06/doge-says-it-has-saved-over-1000-per-taxpayer/

— INVESTIGATION —Foreign Aid Official Who Resisted DOGE Took Secret Payments After Steering Africa Money To Friend1/3

African Development Foundation CFO told the White House he would not acknowledge a Trump appointee as agency head.

Luke Rosiak May 6, 2025 DailyWire.com

A foreign aid official who refused the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to his agency’s financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out:he steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments, according to a law enforcement affidavit obtained by The Daily Wire.

Mathieu Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, refused to grant DOGE access to its books and told the White House that the agency would not acknowledge President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the board. After a dramatic showdownin March, DOGE physically took over the building with U.S. Marshals, but control of the agency is now the subject of a lawsuit objecting to “swooping in with DOGE staff, demanding access to sensitive information systems” — an objection that reads differently in light of the criminal probe.

For years, workers at the small, USAID-adjacent federal agency focused on Africa have told oversight bodies about allegations of self-dealing, procurement violations, andmysterious offshore bank accounts, many of them involving Zahui. But little was done about it, several told The Daily Wire.

One action that raised eyebrows was Zahui’s insistence on directing both grants and contracts to a company in Kenya called Ganiam Ltd. According to spending records, it was awarded nearly $800,000 in contracts without competition. For example, a one-year, $350,000 contract for “transport, travel, relocation” services was executed in March 2020, when few people were traveling or holding conferences because of coronavirus.

According to a search warrant application uncovered by The Daily Wire, USAID’s inspector general established by August 2024 that the company’s owner had secretly wired money to Zahui’s personal bank account at times that matched up with the federal contracts. To date, the Department of Justice has not charged either man with a crime.

Ganiam Ltd. is owned by Maina Gakure, whom Zahui has known for decades. Both worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs in San Diego and later moved to Fairfax, Virginia. Gakure had been in charge of awarding contracts at the VA, then created his own company designed to get government construction contracts by taking advantage of a minority preference program.

It was called Ganiam LLC and was based out of a house in Virginia. Gakure similarly created a company based in Kenya called Gakure Ltd. The African Development Foundation is permitted by law to give grants only to African entities.

In January 2024, inspector general agents interviewed Zahui about the Ganiam contracts, and he acknowledged having known Gakure personally since 1999, and having been to his apartment. He “could not explain why the contract with Ganiam was sole-sourced instead of being competitively bid,” the agents wrote.

Zahui was named chief financial officer of the federal agency after he declared bankruptcy and had his house foreclosed on. He acknowledged to investigators that the travel contract was executed after COVID had already shut down travel. He told them the contract was actually used for IT services, but since Ganiam had no expertise in IT, it subcontracted it to a different company. A Department of the Treasury contracting official told the agents that was not allowed.

Zahui continued to give more contracts to Ganiam without competition, which he justified by saying he was “lazy” and didn’t want to find a new vendor.

“Zahui stated that he did not receive any direct or indirect benefits from Gakure,” agents wrote. But in February 2024, the agents seized Zahui’s work phone and examined a subset of the data.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-aid-official-who-resisted-doge-took-secret-payments-after-steering-africa-money-to-friend

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“Agents found text messages showing at least eight instances of wire transfers or electronic payments from Gakure to Zahui’s Bank of America account, totaling over $10,000. These payments coincide with USADF’s awarding of sole-source contracts to Ganiam,” they wrote.

“After identifying these payments, the agents stopped their review. Based on the aforementioned evidence, there is probable cause to believe that there are additional relevant communications and instances of payments on the TARGET DEVICE in the applications that have not been reviewed,” they told a judge on October 29, 2024, eight months after seizing the device. They asked for a warrant to examine the rest.

On November 4, 2024, the day before the presidential election, they executed the search warrant.

This February, President Trump fired the African Development Foundation’s board members, and its CEO, Travis Adkins, resigned. A three-person committee, including Zahui, took over the duties of CEO=.

On February 21, DOGE “demanded immediate access to USADF systems including financial records and payment and human resources systems,” but Zahui stalled them. On February 28, the White House emailed Zahui that Pete Marocco, the Trump operative tasked with dismantling USAID, had become acting chairman of the African Development Foundation. Zahui told the White House that agency staff would not honor the appointment because Marocco had not been confirmed by the Senate.

When DOGE returned, staff locked the doors and refused to let them in, creating a dramatic showdown, according to a lawsuit filed against DOGE by the now-fired board. DOGE eventually gained access to the building using U.S. Marshals, and put the staff on leave.

In an interview with The Daily Wire at his home,Zahui said DOGE changed the locks, but that they didn’t know about a back door, and he had gained access since the takeover.He acknowledged that he selected Gakure’s firm because of their personal relationship, and said Gakure moved to Kenya before COVID.

During the same time period that Ganiam Ltd. was paid as an African company, Ganiam LLC received roughly $90,000 in U.S. coronavirus assistance designed to prevent the loss of American jobs. Gakure did not return a request for comment.

Zahui told The Daily Wire that Ganiam performed IT services during COVID instead of the travel services advertised on contracting documents.

Contracting records show that the agency, with only 30 employees, was separately paying astronomical sums for IT, including $865,000 to another minority-owned contractorcalled Etranservices Corp. between 2020 and 2022, with the option to bill up to $4 million.

A former agency employee told The Daily Wire that on top of the $800,000 in contracts to Ganiam, the African Development Foundation also awarded it grants. Zahui initially denied that to The Daily Wire, then conceded it was true.

He said it gave grants to Ganiam, which it was required to use to buy airline tickets for the agency’s African partners to attend events on the continent and to take a trip to the United States, where they visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The amount of “grants” to the company is unknown.

Offshore bank accounts

In November 2023, Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho), then the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, asked the USAID inspector general, which has oversight of the African Development Foundation, to open an “immediate investigation” into what he said was a slew of whistleblower complaints about financial irregularities at the agency. Those included “misuse of official funds; fraudulent and corrupt spending practices; conflicts of interest [and] gross mismanagement.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-aid-official-who-resisted-doge-took-secret-payments-after-steering-africa-money-to-friend

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Among the irregularities cited was “an alleged $2 million deposit by [Zahui] into a bank account in Ghana in February 2023 — that typically would require signature by at least two presently responsible fiduciary agents of the agency,” Risch wrote. “This may also explain why a senior USADF official was unable to account for major financial discrepancies included in the agency’s FY2024 budget request.”

In an internal videotaped interview obtained by The Daily Wire, regional portfolio manager Jeff Gileo, who was tasked with supervising projects in Africa, said, “a lot of those projects, we never actually saw them. They were managed by [the CFO’s office] directly.” For example, he said he asked for information about a grant in the country of Mauritius and was “told no, because there might be some other information in there that people don’t need to know about, being run by finance.”

Zahui strongly denied to The Daily Wire that there was a $2 million deposit. He said it was true that there are accounts throughout Africa with money sitting in them, some in countries where the agency hadn’t been active in years. He also said that he had traveled to open and close such bank accounts, but that the money was all accounted for.

“We’ve not operated in Guinea for a long time, it’s been more than eight years now, but the bank account is there. There’s money there. When we attempted to transfer the fund to the U.S. Treasury, it didn’t work. We tried three times,” he said. “I went to Botswana, I close it, I take the money out. I went to Swaziland….I close it, and the funds are accounted for today. I couldn’t bring it here because I couldn’t cross the — so we put it where we transfer them in an account, what we call ADF — I forget the name, but we have an account in Kenya.”

“We call it funds ‘outside of treasury,’” he said, adding that he planned to help Congress locate the money, but that he hasn’t pointed it out to DOGE because no one has made contact with him.According to its 2022-2023 financial statement, the agency had $9.7 million “held outside treasury.”

Mateo Dunne, the agency’s former general counsel, told The Daily Wire that he provided the USAID inspector general with extensive documentation of violations of procurement, personnel, and ethics regulations by African Development Foundation officials beginning in 2021, but that even clear-cut violations didn’t appear to be acted upon.

Sen. Risch warned USAID’s inspector general in the 2023 letter that if it didn’t urgently reform the African Development Foundation, Americans might lose trust in USAID and foreign funding as a whole.

“Development assistance plays an important role in U.S. foreign policy.

Turning a blind eye to alleged fraud, corruption, and mismanagement in any single development agency or program would undermine the credibility of U.S. development assistance across the board,” he wrote.

Now, just over 3 months into the Trump administration, USAID and the African Development Foundation are gone.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-aid-official-who-resisted-doge-took-secret-payments-after-steering-africa-money-to-friend

Our Government is so inept, along with the investigators that do nothing

Hilarious – President Trump Welcomes Prime Minister Mark Carney to White House

May 6, 2025 | Sundance |

I don’t want to say ‘I toldya so’, but….Listen carefully to the answer to the first question at (05:00 minute mark) as President Trump responds to the question about the USMCA with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney next to him. The USMCA is “effective, and it’s still effective, but people have to follow it,” inferring the issues of Canada as a tool to avoid China tariffs, President Trump said.

Then comes the part everyone will overlook as President Trump notes, “as you know it terminates fairly shortly. It gets renegotiated fairly shortly.” Then comes the biggest statement, “this was a transitional deal, and we’ll see what happens, we’re going to start renegotiating that”… “I don’t know if it serves a purpose anymore.” …. “And the biggest purpose it served was, we got rid of NAFTA.” This presents the future of the USMCA and specifically the U.S-Canada aspect to the trade deal exactly as we anticipated.

President Trump is going to exit the trilateral USMCA in favor of two distinctly different bilateral trade agreements between the U.S and Mexico; and the U.S and Canada. The only consideration now is the timing. President Trump is 100% focused on the BIG ECONOMIC PICTURE; it’s not about the politics, it’s all about the economics. [Also pay attention to USTR Jamieson Greer]

WATCH: https://youtu.be/KCplebZOivM

Prime Minister Mark Carney knows what is coming. His response about stepping up their military spending to meet NATO obligations is part of that dynamic.

The 51st state remarks were all about getting Canada into a position where Trump is about to open up two distinctly different bilateral trade agreements. The relationship that Canada has with China is a major risk to Carney’s position. Canada doesn’t stand a chance. In essence, at the end of this journey of economics North American trade is going to be entirely different.

https://youtu.be/KCplebZOivM

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/06/hilarious-president-trump-welcomes-prime-minister-mark-carney-to-white-house/