We Should Take Coup Talk From Trump’s Cult Seriously
Never leave anything to chance with Trump and his violent, racist following
At the start of the week, Michael Flynn, who once served as National Security Adviser at the advent of President Trump’s term in office, called for a Myanmar-like coup in the United States in order to reinstall Trump into power.
“I want to know why what happened in Minamar [sic] can’t happen here?” a member of the audience, who identified himself as a Marine, asked Flynn. “No reason, I mean, it should happen here. No reason. That’s right,” Flynn responded.
Speaking at the same event earlier in the weekend, Flynn also claimed: “Trump won. He won the popular vote, and he won the Electoral College vote.”
For those out of the loop, Flynn is reportedly viewed as a hero in the QAnon movement. Last year, Flynn posted a video featuring QAnon slogans, and more recently, Flynn attempted to distinguish between the QAnon movement, which includes theories such as the world is controlled by a cabal of child sex traffickers. “What I tell people to do is look at the people that are involved,” Flynn claimed. “Look at the values that they espouse and let’s move along.”
Many of those espoused values include celebrating the deadly military coup in…
