MAGA's Premier Conspiracy Theorist (Mike Flynn) Becomes the Target of One [View all]

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-premiere-conspiracy-theorist-mike-flynn-target-qanon-influencers

Flynn-kenstein’s Monster

FEW AMERICANS HAVE DONE MORE to mainstream conspiracy theories than Michael Flynn, the retired Army general who served as national security advisor for the first few days of Donald Trump’s first term. After being indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Flynn became a martyr for the MAGA right. QAnon believers, in particular, came to revere him—a reverence that Flynn eventually embraced.

Flynn posted a video of himself and his family members taking the QAnon oath, and appeared at a QAnon convention, where he helped auction off items like a QAnon quilt. He did all that, it’s worth noting, despite privately saying that the conspiracy theory was “total nonsense.”

But now, after having spent years fanning political conspiracies, Flynn finds himself the victim of one: a yarn weaved by a group of Trump supporters that Flynn’s family and associates actually orchestrated the January 6th attacks on the Capitol.

It’s gotten bad enough that Flynn has urged them to stop, saying his family wants to be left alone.

“Speaking for myself, the Flynn Family is done being a f’ing pin cushion for the mob,” Flynn posted on X on April 17.

Flynn didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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