Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who served as nationwide safety advisor to former President Donald Trump, spoke with The Western Journal in an unique interview on Friday a couple of current article alleging that he has labored with “extremist” teams.
Flynn immediately addressed and refuted the Related Press article that argued he’s “constructing a motion centered on Christian nationalist concepts” and included him being described by an “skilled on authoritarianism and fascism” as “probably the most harmful people in America right this moment.”
In roughly 4,300 phrases, the article made the declare that Flynn “has drawn collectively election deniers, masks and vaccine opponents, insurrectionists, Proud Boys, and elected officers and leaders in state and native Republican events.”
Flynn argued that two of the AP’s named sources had been offered as having a familiarity with the final that simply isn’t there.
One of many sources, retired Brig. Gen. Steven M. Anderson, who reportedly served with Flynn in Iraq, is, in line with Flynn, nearly unknown to him.
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Flynn defined, “I don’t know who Anderson is. Perhaps if I noticed him I might acknowledge him. However they make it sound like he was some form of deputy that I labored with on the battlefields of Iraq. I labored with tens of 1000’s of individuals, and a number of them had been colonels and generals and sergeants and privates.
“So I don’t even know that man. And if he walked on this door proper now into this room that I’m in, I might go, ‘Can I allow you to?’” Flynn added.
The second supply Flynn referred to was offered by the AP as “Doug Sensible, a former CIA and army officer who knew Flynn for many years and briefly served as Flynn’s deputy on the Protection Intelligence Company.”
However in line with the final, there’s a small downside with that description. Whereas the AP acknowledged that Sensible served solely “briefly” as Flynn’s deputy, Flynn mentioned he held that position for lower than per week.
Flynn described his relationship with Sensible.
“The opposite man is a former CIA officer, and he got here in within the final week. So I had like 5 days left on the Protection Intelligence Company, and he got here in to be the brand new deputy,” he mentioned. “What’s attention-grabbing, he’s actually, actually disparaging.”
“I’ve an e mail from him after Trump gained in 2016 that was basically begging me for a job, to return again into the federal government, to work for Trump, proper? To work within the Nationwide Safety Council. That is after I used to be appointed,” Flynn mentioned.
“He’s been one of many form of speaking heads on the market, one of many ‘former intel leaders’ that has been utterly disparaging, not solely me but additionally all the pieces that occurred that we now know is completely false — the Russia hoax, the impeachments, all that.”
“However that’s who they go to. And so they go, ‘previously labored with Gen. Flynn,’” Flynn mentioned.
“They simply needed someone that claims, ‘Oh, I do know Gen. Flynn. He’s a loopy man.’ And so they can print that. Proper? That’s how they personally assault,” he defined.
Flynn continued, “They don’t assault what I’m standing for. They don’t assault what my points are. In the case of nationwide safety or authorities reform or home reform or the issues with medication on the streets, the issues with the border invasion.
“They don’t need to assault the problems that I’m really on the market talking about. They need to assault me personally.”
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
