Appointed by Trump on November 17, 2016, Flynn didn't have the job long. He resigned on February 13, 2017, amid reports that he did not provide Vice President Mike Pence with accurate information about a conversation that he had with a Russian ambassador concerning sanctions against the country. On November 25, 2020, President Trump tweeted that he had granted Flynn a presidential pardon.
Trump claimed that, although Flynn “didn’t do anything wrong,” he had lost confidence in the general. Trump said, “He didn’t tell the vice president of the United States the facts. And then he didn’t remember. And that just wasn’t acceptable to me.”
Flynn is a scary man! QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory and movement centered on false claims made by an anonymous individual or individuals, known by the name Q, claimed that Flynn worships Satan.
In an effort to refute that absurd claim and in an effort to proclaim his Christian faith, Flynn, speaking in San Antonio, Texas on the ReAwaken America tour which features Flynn, other Trump loyalists and anti-vaxxers who have a history of spreading disinformation about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic, he called for Christianity to become the singular religion of the United States!
He stated, "If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God."
Most Christians would, I think, shudder at the very thought of the United States having a state religion. Besides that, under the Constitution such a thing is illegal.
Flynn also said he taped a segment for the television program Tucker Carlson Tonight (Carlson is a political journalist who speaks on current issues). In reference to the insurrection that took place in Washington DC at President Biden's inauguration, Flynn called it the "insurrection crucifixion" and compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Pontius Pilate, the man who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible. He stated, "This is the crucifixion of our First Amendment freedom to speak, freedom to peacefully assemble. It's unbelievable."
As is all that isn't bad enough, Flynn gets even more weird. A while back he stated, “Somebody sent me a thing this morning where they’re talking about putting the vaccine into salad dressing, or salads.” That's right! Flynn is tossing around a conspiracy theory about Covid-19 vaccines being secretly put in salads or salad dressing. Flynn did not say on the video whether he actually agreed with the salad claim adding, “I’m thinking to myself, this is the Bizarro World, right.” But, why mention it?
Flynn did not elaborate where this information came from, but according to Snopes, in a September 16, 2020 article by Jules Bernstein for the University of California-Riverside News began with the lines, “the future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.”
Scientists are studying this possibility but have not achieved it yet. They even received a half a million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to do research on this. What they are actually trying to do is to use plant cells to produce enough mRNA to be used as a vaccine.
First, they haven't accomplished it nor are they trying to turn salads or salad dressing into some kind of secret vaccine.
Amusing was rapper, singer and songwriter Nicky Minaj's tweet about a friend of her cousin's testicles. Her tweet:
My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.
You can read the response by the government of Trinidad and Tobago HERE.
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