Mike Flynn, who swore an oath to QAnon, almost convinced the president to impose martial law

[Nevilledog]

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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 Washington’s 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. Trump’s 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. Trump’s 77-day push to overturn the election, a campaign that will be under scrutiny as the former president’s 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]

1. martial law wouldn't have changed anything. There are things he could have done, but overthrow the

Election would not have been one of them

[Nevilledog]

3. But this would have been really bad if they tried.

[Thekaspervote]

14. Oh no doubt!!

[Budi]

2. I am honestly surprised he didn't impose martial law.

Seems it would fit Trump's desire of a grand final' to his big FkYou America

[Sanity Claws]

4. I have also wondered that too

Could the generals have said something that caused 45 to think it would be futile or even fatal?

[dchill]

6. I'm sure as I can be that martial law was never an option.

[Laelth]

9. Why would you say that? How can you be so certain?

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]

10. He could have declared it, but then the military would have...

...had to back him up. That clearly wasn't in the cards.

[TheRealNorth]

15. I think this is the only reason Trump did not try

Why else would they have made that public statement the weekend before the Capitol insurrection?

[Laelth]

7. He was talked out of it.

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]

11. Oh yes! Now I recall reading about that intervention..

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]

13. Maybe there was a limit

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]

16. I think he didn't because he knew the military would not support him.

[canetoad]

5. Did he want to be

Himmler to trump's Hitler?

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Another reason to never, ever, let trump be president again, ever. One that has so little disregard

for the rule of law, and flout our elections and toss the results aside ...

flynn should be charged w/ sedition too...

[Baked Potato]

12. Trump was too scared to try *anything* because nobody was loyal to him

and he knew it. He wanted out. It was all just a giant grift for him.