New York Post

EAT YOUR HAT!

Mex eatery boots Trump fan, tells her :

- By DANIEL HALPER Bureau Chief

This diehard Donald Trump supporter was bounced from an Orange County Mexican restaurant for wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, she claims.

Esther Levy says the co- owner yelled that he didn’t serve Trump backers.

“It was horrif ic,” she said. “I’m not used to being thrown out of restaurant­s.”

WASHINGTON — A top military adviser to Donald Trump is being vetted to be his running mate, The Post has learned.

The outspoken and brash Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn — who was forced out of his post by the Obama administra­tion in 2014 after pointing out the rising global jihadist threat — has already briefed the Republican presidenti­al candidate on several occasions and is in close touch with high levels of Trump’s staff.

Flynn joins the ranks of GOP politician­s being looked at for the highprofil­e pick, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), Gov. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).

Trump spent the holiday weekend with two of the contenders.

“Spent time with Indiana Governor Mike Pence and family yester- day,” Trump tweeted Monday morning. “Very impressed, great people!”

Later, Trump (right) revealed he would be visiting Monday with Ernst, a rising Republican star.

Although Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligen­ce Agency, made a name for himself speaking out against his former boss, he is not treating his potential future boss the same way.

“One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion,” Flynn told The Post, coyly declining to comment on being vetted by Trump.

“All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the US Army,” he said. “I’ve been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential com- mander in chief.”

Trump praised Flynn in a statement to The Post.

“I have a lot of respect for General Flynn, and his advice is important,” he said.

The lieutenant general’s debut book, “The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies,” which hits shelves July 12, offers a grim but realistic view of the global jihadist threat.

“We’re in a world war,” Flynn wrote in the introducti­on of his book, according to early excerpts.

“We could lose. In fact, right now we’re losing,” he wrote. “To make matters worse, our political leaders insist that the war is going very well, and the scores of profession­al analysts who know better are being censored when they report the truth to their superiors.”

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OUTSPOKEN: Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was forced out by President Obama after warning of the jihadist threat.
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