Get a load of this lunacy from Michael Flynn:
“Once again, tyranny and treachery are in our midst, and although we feel we’ve descended into a hellish state of existence, we must never forget, hell is conquerable,” Flynn wrote in a bizarre op-ed Thursday, linking to Matthew 16:18.
It was a striking juxtaposition: Before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell and DOJ attorneys argued in agreement that Judge Emmet Sullivan, the district court judge, had overstepped his authority by appointing an outside lawyer to make the argument that Flynn’s case should not be dropped.
Meanwhile, visitors to The Western Journal could read Flynn expounding on how “the idea or notion of a heaven on Earth is the very real sense of being free.”
The website was founded by none other than Floyd Brown, the conservative media man who produced the infamous “Willie Horton” ad during the 1988 presidential campaign and founded the political action committee Citizens United.
As The New York Times reported last year about the site, it’s an information source for millions lured in by clicky headlines and a fringe conservative slant on the news.
Flynn’s headline, “Forces of Evil Want To Steal Our Freedom in the Dark of Night, But God Stands with Us,” didn’t explain much about his point.
Neither did the op-ed itself. Was he discussing theology? Or the ongoing nationwide protests over racism and police brutality? His own criminal case? All of the above? It wasn’t clear. Read the first three paragraphs and see if you can figure it out:
There are seminal moments in American history that test every fiber of our nation’s soul.
We are facing one now.
Revolutionary forces are causing every American citizen to question which direction the country is heading. To determine the outcome, we must examine our nation’s history to project ourselves forward into the future.
This:
This nutcase is the man Trump chose to be in charge of America’s national security. He should have been impeached for that alone.
A federal appeals court hearing arguments about President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Friday firmly pushed back on his attempts to force his criminal charge’s dismissal immediately, even after the Justice Department backed Flynn.
Two of three judges on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals said Flynn’s case wasn’t ready to leave the hands of the trial-level judge below them, meaning that Flynn may not get a quick exoneration in court.
The appeals argument was an unusual turn in an even more unusual case that has come to signify the politics of the Justice Department, feed Trump’s attacks on the Russia investigation and enliven a battle between the Trump administration and other branches of government. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in late 2017 as part of the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the election.