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triron

(22,002 posts)
Tue Feb 23, 2021, 11:19 PM Feb 2021

Wonder what Michael Flynn's brother was doing on Jan. 6 conference call to Pentagon?

https://news.yahoo.com/michael-flynns-brother-key-pentagon-092419008.html

"Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the Army's deputy chief of staff for operations and training — and brother to disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — did participate in a critical Jan. 6 meeting to discuss deploying the National Guard to the besieged Capitol, The Washington Post reports. The Army had denied several times that Flynn was involved in the conference call at the Pentagon with Washington, D.C., officials and Capitol Police, the Post notes, but both Flynn and the Pentagon confirmed his presence on Wednesday."

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Wonder what Michael Flynn's brother was doing on Jan. 6 conference call to Pentagon? (Original Post) triron Feb 2021 OP
They had to lie about it so it was somethnig uponit7771 Feb 2021 #1
I'm sure he was up to no good nt dflprincess Feb 2021 #2
There's apparently a 3rd Flynn brother who is also a grade-A QAnon knucklehead... RockRaven Feb 2021 #3
Every think there might be a few In Laws Brush Bunny Feb 2021 #9
More here: triron Feb 2021 #4
okay, WHO in the Army falsely denied that, I wonder? Grasswire2 Feb 2021 #5
Trumper? triron Feb 2021 #6
Another thing that really bugs me is wtf is everyone so mystified at the delay in deploying triron Feb 2021 #7
What a fucked up family world wide wally Feb 2021 #8
It doesn't seem odd to me that the Army Deputy CoS for operations was on the call. TomSlick Feb 2021 #10
Sedition appears to be a Flynn family project. tanyev Feb 2021 #11
This article is over a month old stopdiggin Feb 2021 #12
He was seditioning. Runs in the family. dchill Feb 2021 #13

RockRaven

(14,966 posts)
3. There's apparently a 3rd Flynn brother who is also a grade-A QAnon knucklehead...
Tue Feb 23, 2021, 11:26 PM
Feb 2021

So what are the odds that Charles just happens to be the odd man out in the family?

triron

(22,002 posts)
4. More here:
Tue Feb 23, 2021, 11:29 PM
Feb 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/flynn-national-guard-call-riot/2021/01/20/7f4f41ba-5b4c-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html

"The Army falsely denied for days that Lt. Gen. Charles A. Flynn, the brother of disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn, was involved in a key meeting during its heavily scrutinized response to the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol."

Grasswire2

(13,569 posts)
5. okay, WHO in the Army falsely denied that, I wonder?
Tue Feb 23, 2021, 11:33 PM
Feb 2021

Because that person or persons should be considered complicit in the plot.

triron

(22,002 posts)
7. Another thing that really bugs me is wtf is everyone so mystified at the delay in deploying
Tue Feb 23, 2021, 11:37 PM
Feb 2021

national guard. Seems clear to me. Donny ordered it so. Duh.

TomSlick

(11,098 posts)
10. It doesn't seem odd to me that the Army Deputy CoS for operations was on the call.
Tue Feb 23, 2021, 11:53 PM
Feb 2021

What seems odd to me is that the Army staff lied about it. If LTG Flynn was just doing his job, there would be no reason to lie about it. Ergo....

tanyev

(42,553 posts)
11. Sedition appears to be a Flynn family project.
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 12:08 AM
Feb 2021
Michael Flynn’s Wild Ride Into The Heart Of QAnon

Michael Flynn stood in front of a cheering crowd of QAnon believers, far-right extremists and other Trump supporters, and told them he was absolutely certain Donald Trump would remain the president. It was Dec. 12 and Trump had already lost the election, but at a “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., Flynn proclaimed “a spiritual battle for the heart and soul of this country” that would end with Trump’s victory.

As three of his siblings applauded behind him, Flynn vowed that the election was not over and that “courts aren’t gonna decide who the next president of the United States is gonna be.” Flynn said Trump trusted his supporters to “not allow what’s happening to happen in our country” and called on them to “fight back” against an alleged plot involving groundless conspiracy theories of election fraud and rigged voting machines.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-flynn-qanon-trump-capitol-riot_n_6026e076c5b680717ee79b5c

stopdiggin

(11,304 posts)
12. This article is over a month old
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 02:03 AM
Feb 2021

and the reporting and story is even older than that.

Edit: partial retraction
. this story seems to have broken mainstream on 1-21-2021 -- same date as the OP link.

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