This article was called Trump Advisor Has Pushed Clinton Conspiracy Theories by Matthew Rosenberg when it was published in The New York Times on December 5, 2016. The article summarizes information about Flynn and shows why Flynn should not be National Security Advisor. He is not sane. He will head NSA in a Trump administration. The position requires no Senate confirmation.
WASHINGTON — Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice for national security adviser, has a well-established penchant for pushing conspiracy theories about Islamic law spreading in the West and the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Less well noticed was his willingness throughout the presidential campaign to indulge in conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton.
Six days before the election, Mr. Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, tweeted a fake news story that claimed the police and prosecutors in New York had found evidence linking Mrs. Clinton and much of her senior campaign staff to pedophilia, money laundering, perjury and other felonies. "U decide," Mr. Flynn wrote in the Twitter message on Nov. 2, though it appeared there was little doubt what he thought.
U decide - NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc...MUST READ! https://t.co/O0bVJT3QDr— General Flynn (@GenFlynn) November 3, 2016.
Mr.Flynn's month-old tweet is attracting renewed attention after a man fired a rifle on Sunday inside a Washington pizza restaurant that was the subject of false stories during the campaign tying it and the Clinton campaign to a child sex trafficking ring.
The man, Edgar M. Welch, 28, of Salisbury, N.C., told the police that he had come to the restaurant, Comet Ping Pong, in northwest Washington, to "self-investigate" the sex trafficking hoax, which is being called Pizzagate. No one was hurt, and Mr. Welch was arrested at the scene.
But the incident marked a violent turn in a continuing story in which the restaurant, its employees and nearby businesses have been subjected to threats and harassment because of the hoax, for which no evidence has been produced.Despite the absence of evidence to back up the theory, some high-profile supporters of Mr. Trump have continued to spread it, including Mr. Flynn's son, Michael G. Flynn.
On Sunday, hours after the gunfire at Comet Ping Pong, the younger Mr. Flynn, 33, went on Twitter to say that until Pizzagate was proved false, it remained a story.
Until#Pizzagate proven to be false, it'll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many "coincidences" tied to it. https://t.co/8HA9y30Yfp— Michael G Flynn (@mflynnJR) December 5, 2016
MIchael G. Flynn is more than just a family member of an incoming senior administration official.
In recent years, he has served as the chief of staff to his father, who started a private intelligence and consulting business, the Flynn Intel Group, after being forced to retire from the military in 2014.Throughout the campaign, Michael G. Flynn served as a gatekeeper for his father, and he now appears to have a job with the Trump transition team.
Email sent to an address at the Flynn Intel Group returned with an automated response that provided a new email contact for both Flynns — and each had a Trump transition email address that ended with .gov.
The Twitter feeds of both men leave little doubt about their politics — the main difference is that the son appears to have shown even less restraint than his father when it comes to spreading conspiracy theories about Mrs. Clinton and her campaign.
He retweeted suggestions that Mrs. Clinton and President Obama were "at the center" of the conflict in Syria and profiting from it, and suggested that both would be tried for treason if Mr. Trump were elected. He shared a fake news story that claimed hackers had found video evidence that President Bill Clinton had raped a teenage girl.
And in a Twitter message that he deleted after CNN found it in November, he questioned what was wrong with dating websites that were only for white people, saying black Americans have BET, a television network that caters largely to black viewers.
Since Sunday's gunfire at Comet Ping Pong, Michael G. Flynn has also continued to push his support for the Pizzagate fake news, retweeting messages that say the media have sought to normalize pedophilia.His father, though, has kept a lower profile since the election. He has not given interviews, and he has kept his Twitter postings relatively tame, posting patriotic messages on Veterans Day and more recently praising Mr. Trump's selection of retired Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marines as defense secretary.
General Mattis...another amazing choice for our country. @realDonaldTrump & @mike_pence mean what they say! We will #MAGA thank you America! https://t.co/sPF0ounPmO— General Flynn (@GenFlynn)
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December 6, 2016
Addendum. When Flynn was appointed National Security Advisor, Voices4Hillary published an article called Who is Lt.General Mike Flynn? We pointed out an often overlooked fact - at the Republican National Convention, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn encouraged the delegates to consider America going to war so Trump could lead the nation to victory. He is also an Anti-Semite. You may want to read more about Flynn here.
This choice underscores that Trump is not fit for the Presidency. Appointing Flynn is a dangerous mistake.