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douglas9

(4,358 posts)
Sat May 16, 2020, 06:13 AM May 2020

Michael Flynn isn't a martyr. He's a crook and a crackpot.

For anyone with a memory that stretches all the way back to 2016, it is positively bizarre to see Republicans suddenly claiming that Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, is a martyr. It’s obvious why and how they’re doing it: In an effort to distract from Trump’s spectacular failure on the coronavirus pandemic, they are attempting to create a new fake “scandal” that will send us all down an endless rabbit hole chasing absurd lies and conspiracy theories.

But Michael Flynn? He’s the one they want to portray as a victim? What’s next — Jeffrey Epstein was framed? Bernie Madoff was a humanitarian? Al Capone was misunderstood?

Here’s the truth: Flynn should never have been allowed within 10 miles of the White House. He was a dangerous, dishonest and shady operator who was also kind of a loon. For a moment, it appeared that everyone in the Trump administration realized it, which was why he was booted from his position as national security adviser after only 24 days on the job.

Yet now they’re treating him like a hero.

So let’s quickly review who Flynn was:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/15/michael-flynn-isnt-martyr-hes-crook-crackpot/

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Michael Flynn isn't a martyr. He's a crook and a crackpot. (Original Post) douglas9 May 2020 OP
Trump is creating an aura of Puritans around his minions bucolic_frolic May 2020 #1
And the MSM keeps on enabling that view, rather than peeling it away. Ford_Prefect May 2020 #4
Flynn took part in talks duforsure May 2020 #2
And was plotting the kidnapping and "private rendition" of a Turkish cleric living in the US... MrModerate May 2020 #3
Flynn seems to have had Trump's blessings in all he undertook, or at least Putin's. Ford_Prefect May 2020 #5

bucolic_frolic

(43,242 posts)
1. Trump is creating an aura of Puritans around his minions
Sat May 16, 2020, 08:23 AM
May 2020

America is being eroded by degree as they are dividing the world into White Hats who support Trump and everyone else.

Ford_Prefect

(7,914 posts)
4. And the MSM keeps on enabling that view, rather than peeling it away.
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:19 AM
May 2020

MSM could provide context rather than ignoring it. Instead they announce repeat the Trumpian talking points as if they were fact rather than the fictions they are. Trump uses this situation to push ever more dangerous and distorted versions of what can only be called propaganda.

The news agencies have an obligation to present ALL the FACTS and to fairly represent the context which illuminates their meaning, not just to parrot the press releases intended to obscure and erase them. That is the public trust underlying the 4th Estate.

At this point most of the press seem content to dramatize the crisis by presenting an endless series of "look at the squirrel" events and heart tugging moments of personal loss or sacrifice. They have not done the followup nor the kinds of in-depth analysis which gives dimension and connects those moments by showing how they are related to decisions made and not made. As it stands they are presenting each witness as on a soap-box creating a false illusion of equivalency.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
2. Flynn took part in talks
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:00 AM
May 2020

With turkey to kidnap someone here in this country a person Turkey wanted for manufactured claims , who likely would face being murdered. I'd bet trump was involved with it too to help his criminal buddy Erdogan. Flynn is a cold blooded criminal , and hopefully he will face consequences with many others.

 

MrModerate

(9,753 posts)
3. And was plotting the kidnapping and "private rendition" of a Turkish cleric living in the US...
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:05 AM
May 2020

To Flynn's client, Erdoğan of Turkey, so the cleric could be tortured to death by Turkish goons on Turkish soil.

Yeah. Flynn's a real stand-up guy, not to mention one heckuva patriot.

Ford_Prefect

(7,914 posts)
5. Flynn seems to have had Trump's blessings in all he undertook, or at least Putin's.
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:20 AM
May 2020

Like Eric Prince and others of his ilk he is exactly the kind of sleaze Trump uses to get things done.

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