Setting a record-breaking three-weeks as National Security Adviser, former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn exposed to the world his madness, telling a QAnon convention at the Omnij Hotel in Dallas, Texas that the U.S. should have Myanmar-like coup, where the military toppled the duly elected Buddhist government Feb. 1. Over 800 Muslim Rohingya men, women and children have been slaughtered by the Myanmar military, now controlling the country. Myanmar’s military toppled the government of 75-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi for alleged corruption. Myanmar’s military coup was parallel to 66-year-old Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi who toppled the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohanned Morsi June 6, 2014. El-Sisi responded to millions of Egyptian street demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, protesting Morsi’s institution of Muslim Brotherhood law in Egypt.
Flynn’s comments about a Myanmar-type coup echoed the event of Jan. 6, when pro-Trump rabble rouses stormed the Capitol and defaced government property. While former President Donald Trump paid a draconic price being impeached by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for “incitement of insurrection,” Flynn’s comments show why he was unfit for duty as National Security Adviser. Former President Barack Obama fired Flynn Aug. 7, 2014 at head of the Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA], largely because of Flynn’s whacky behvior. Obama warned Trump to stay clear of Flynn for his eccentric ways, not suitable for his Cabinet. Trump pardoned Flynn Dec. 8, 2020 for an ongoing Justice Department case about lying to the FBI about his contacts with former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak during the 2016 transition. Flynn was set up in a perjury trap by former FBI Director James Comey.
Trump did the right thing pardoning Flynn but he should have never offered the eccentric former head of the DIA a job as NSA. Flynn’s 36-year-old son Michael Flynn Jr. concocted the QAnon narrative that wound up Dec. 4, 2016 shooting up Georgetown’s Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria. Michael Flynn Jr. fabricated a story that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was a pedophile meeting her friends at the Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria. Flynn Jr. was terminated from his role in his father’s transition as Trump’s National Security Adviser. Flynn didn’t last long after 61-year-old former Vice President Mike Pence said he was not informed about Flynn’s contacts with former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak. Flynn got the ax but it’s highly unlikely that Trump and Pence did not know about Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak. Flynn did nothing wrong talking to Kislyak.
Media during the transition and through the Trump presidency did everything possible to sabotage Trump’s government. No Democrat accepted Trump’s presidency, believing Hillary’s fake narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin won Trump the presidency Nov. 8, 2016. For four years, the media hounded Trump with a fake narrative that he colluded with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election. Even after 76-year-old Special Counsel Robert Muller’s 22-month, $40 million investigation cleared Trump March 23, 2019, Democrats and the media continued the fake Russian narrative for Trump’s four years in office. U.S. media proved they were in bed with the Democrat Party, giving Trump bad press for his entire four-year term. Even during the 2020 presidential campaign, Trump received no credit for developing life-saving Covid-19 vaccines in record time.
Flynn’s involvement in QAnon shows how the whacky right wing fringe still commands a national audience. Since his Dec. 4, 2020 pardon, Flynn’s been looking for relevance, finding it with other kooks at the QAnon convention. “I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here,” Flynn told the crowd to a big ovation. If Jan. 6 said anything, it’s that enough people believe Trump was robbed of the 2020 election. Just like the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the same nut-cases believe that way to get Trump back in office was a coup d’etat. When you look at the misanthropes and misfits that breached the Capitol Jan. 6, it’s no wonder they accomplished nothing. Trump played his hand too long, complaining about what he called was massive election fraud. Trump’s 70-year-old former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr said Dec. 1, 2020 that there was no significant election found in the Nov. 8, 2020 vote.
Flynn’s histrionics at the QAnon convention show why he can never again hold any office or be given a position of responsibility. Whatever his past accomplishments, Flynn’s a shell of the same person that once earned so many military accolades. As with most tragic figures, there’s probably a reason why he went over the deep end. Whether admitted to or not by the media, Flynn deserved his presidential pardon because he was set up in a perjury trap by Comey only four days into Trump’s term, Jan. 24, 2017. Getting fired by Trump Feb. 13, 2017 was a blessing because no one should have given Flynn any respectable position. QAnon’s persistence shows that too many people get duped by hucksters and con artists, leaving the public vulnerable to influence-and-persuasion. Watching Flynn join the QAnon crowd proves for all to see that he was not fit for duty in any responsible job.
