Flynn Family Fake News Fiasco Proves Trump’s Conspiracy Entourage Is Unfit To Govern

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:38 pm

The President-elect has surrounded himself with a conspiracy entourage.

The Trump team doesn’t seem to be on the same page regarding reality. Tuesday morning the discrepancy surrounded whether or not conspiracy artist Mike Flynn Jr. was working with the Trump transition team, given his role in spreading “pizzagate”; aka, the fake news that Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex-trafficking scheme supposedly operating in the back of a D.C. pizza restaurant. “Pizzagate” is one of many fake conspiracies peddled about Hillary Clinton by the Right, but it was also cited by the gunman who fired one or more shots in the Comet Ping Pong Pizza restaurant.

After Mike Flynn Jr.’s, a top aide to Trump’s National Security Adviser, “pizzagate” tweets became an embarrassment, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said General Mike Flynn’s son had no involvement in the transition team, even though he has an official transition email address.

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Republican Governor Mike Pence told host Joe Scarborough Tuesday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, “General Flynn’s son has no involvement in the transition whatsoever.”

However, in a call Tuesday morning with reporters the Trump transition team Communications Director confirmed that Mike Flynn Jr. had at least some role in the transition.

CBS’ Sopan Deb pointed out that in a call with reporters Jason Miller, Communications Director for the Trump transition team, said that Flynn Jr., who has served as a chief of staff to his father, had at least some role in the transition team.

This is bad. But it’s even more alarming that Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, General Mike Flynn, is a conspiracy monger who seems to be unable to discern the difference between rumor and fact. In February, Flynn tweeted above a conspiracy-oriented video about Muslims, “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL: please forward this to others: the truth fears no questions…”

General Flynn also tweeted a fake news story accusing Hillary Clinton of sex crimes with children:

So the problem isn’t just General Flynn’s son, who was/was not ever a part of the Trump transition team, depending on to whom in the Trump transition team one is speaking.

The problem is that while Donald Trump assured side-eying rational people that he would surround himself with the “best people” who would theoretically know things that Trump doesn’t know, he has instead surrounded himself with the only kind of people who can get behind a conspiracy artist like Donald Trump, a man who was still peddling birthism against the first black President until forced into belligerent silence about it simply to conform to societal rules he still doesn’t seem to understand.

The nation has elected, with obvious reluctance or perhaps aversion given the vast discrepancy between the popular vote for Hillary Clinton and the electoral college result that awarded Trump the White House, a man who openly believed and indeed based policy on videos he claimed to have seen, but since they didn’t exist, he clearly never saw.

While the media obsessed over Hillary Clinton’s emails, Donald Trump was deep into his carnival barker’s routine of chaos to hide the scam. Part of the chaos is trafficking in conspiracy theories that are so devoid of evidence only the most vulnerable could fall for them.

Fall for them they did, thus ushering in the King of Conspiracy theories, Donald J. Trump himself.

Now that the Trump team is distancing itself from Mike Flynn Jr., albeit with conflicting stories, will the Trump team distance themselves from the tinfoil that envelopes Donald Trump’s national security adviser, or will the nation be subjected to Gen Flynn peddling conspiracies to the man who holds the key to the red button.



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