By Eric Stock

CHICAGO – President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet suggesting that flag burners lose their citizenship or be thrown in jail went viral.

Republican Party strategist Pat Brady joked that no lawyer or anyone who had taken a political science class would have allowed such a tweet to go out.

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“I don’t think he has a fundamental understanding of a lot of how the Constitution and government work,” Brady said. “I’ll give him a chance to figure it out. If anybody saw that (tweet before it was sent), they should be fired.”

Brady told WJBC’s Scott Laughlin Trump has shown he can look past the bitterness of a nasty election by considering critics like Mitt Romney and Nikki Haley for cabinet posts.

“Give him credit or whoever is making the decisions for him rising above it and picking people who hit him hard during the campaign,” Brady said. “Nikki Haley is one of the rising stars in the Republican Party.”

Brady added Trump’s administration is off to a good start given his apparent role in keeping air conditioning company Carrier from moving 1,000 jobs out of Indiana.

“He’s not even president yet and he’s working on things that are important to people, particularly people in Indiana where he won by 15 points,” Brady said. “These are the issues hopefully (lawmakers) all focus on on both sides of the aisle. We need to get people back to work.”

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