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Ben Collins
@oneunderscore__
Really great that Mike Flynn, who literally swore an oath to QAnon, almost convinced the president to impose martial law so he could overturn the results of an election.
Matthew Rosenberg
@AllMattNYT
NEW: Remember back in December when Mike Flynn was suggesting Trump impose martial law? Yeah, Trump was so impressed that he floated the idea of making Flynn chief of staff for the final weeks of his admin, or even naming him FBI director https://nytimes.com/2021/02/06/us/politics/michael-flynn-qanon.html?smid=tw-share
12:46 PM · Feb 6, 2021
Pushing QAnon and Stolen Election Lies, Flynn Re-emerges
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/us/politics/michael-flynn-qanon.html
In Washingtons respectable circles, Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, is a discredited and dishonored ex-general, a once-esteemed military intelligence officer who went off the rails ideologically and then was fired a mere 24 days into the Trump administration for lying to the F.B.I. about contacts with the Russian ambassador.
As if he cared.
Where others see disgrace, Mr. Flynn, 62, has found redemption. Recast by former President Donald J. Trumps most ardent supporters as a MAGA martyr, Mr. Flynn has embraced his role as the man who spent four years unjustly ensnared in the Russia investigation.
He was one of the most extreme voices in Mr. Trumps 77-day push to overturn the election, a campaign that will be under scrutiny as the former presidents second impeachment trial gets underway next week. Mr. Flynn went so far as to suggest using the military to rerun the vote in crucial battleground states. At one point, Mr. Trump even floated the idea of bringing Mr. Flynn back into the administration, as chief of staff or possibly F.B.I. director, people familiar with the conversations told The New York Times.
And now, safely pardoned and free to speak his mind, Mr. Flynn has emerged from the Trump presidency much as he entered it as the angry outsider who pushes fringe ideas, talks of shadowy conspiracies and is positioning himself as a voice of a far right that, in the wake of the Capitol riot, appears newly, and violently, emboldened.
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Thekaspervote
(32,787 posts)Election would not have been one of them
Nevilledog
(51,184 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,787 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Seems it would fit Trump's desire of a grand final' to his big FkYou America
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)Could the generals have said something that caused 45 to think it would be futile or even fatal?
dchill
(38,517 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)This essay suggests that we got very close to Trump declaring martial law on December 18, 2020.
https://www.axios.com/trump-oval-office-meeting-sidney-powell-a8e1e466-2e42-42d0-9cf1-26eb267f8723.html
-Laelth
dchill
(38,517 posts)...had to back him up. That clearly wasn't in the cards.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)Why else would they have made that public statement the weekend before the Capitol insurrection?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)The 9th installment of Axios Off the Rails series describes the 6-hour-long White House meeting in which Ciplione, Herschmann, Meadows, and Giuliani talked the President down from declaring martial law, the object of an unscheduled meeting on December 18, 2020 between Trump and Powell, Flynn, Byrne, and Newman.
In the end, Trump opted NOT to declare martial law, but we came very close to it on December 18, 2020.
-Laelth
Budi
(15,325 posts)We're on such high-drama overload anymore.
It's difficult to process one shocking event before the next is on top of us.
I wish for a long stretch where nothing really happens. Only quiet peaceful news.
Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)to how far Putin was willing to go. These sorts of things can come back on you. From Putin's position, things have to look pretty good. The trump operation was a success. Economy in tatters, gross economic inequality increasing and 500,000 dead (although that was an unexpected bonus). And there are still plenty of Americans bent on destroying the country and will continue to do the kind of harm that is desired.
LakeArenal
(28,837 posts)canetoad
(17,178 posts)Himmler to trump's Hitler?
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)for the rule of law, and flout our elections and toss the results aside ...
flynn should be charged w/ sedition too...
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)and he knew it. He wanted out. It was all just a giant grift for him.