Michael Flynn hits the panic button
Over the Memorial Day weekend, video footage surfaced of retired General and convicted felon Michael Flynn was asked if the United States should hold a coup like the one that was recently attempted in Myanmar. His response: “No reason. I mean, it should happen here.”
This set off all kinds of alarms. Didn’t Flynn just get done helping to incite the January 6th Capitol attack? And now the former U.S. military General and U.S. National Security Adviser was directly calling for a coup in exact words. But now suddenly he’s changing his tune.
Flynn is now claiming that his words were taken out of context, and that he was actually saying there’s “no reason” a coup should happen in the United States. But as the Washington Post’s Arron Blake points out, Flynn’s words and cadence don’t make any sense when placed in the context that Flynn is now claiming he meant.
In any case, what’s interesting is that after months of insurrectionist rhetoric, Michael Flynn is now suddenly claiming he’s against having a military coup in the United States. Given that Flynn may have opened himself up to new criminal charges and even a potential military court martial with his latest words, he now appears to be panicking and trying to get everyone to leave him alone.
