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Michael Flynn's relatives sue CNN for $75 million over report alleging QAnon affiliation
justthenews.com ^ | 3/25/2021 | john Solomon

Posted on 03/25/2021 10:10:46 PM PDT by bitt

Brother and sister-in-law say CNN's "false attributions" exposed them to "public scorn, ridicule and contempt."

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's brother and sister-in-law sued CNN in federal court for $75 million on Thursday, stating they were defamed by a report last month alleging they were members of the QAnon conspiracy group.

Jack and Leslie Flynn, who live in Rhode Island, alleged in U.S. District Court in New York City that the CNN report on Feb. 4 falsely portrayed them as members of QAnon by selectively airing video footage from a family outing last Fourth of July where they joined Michael Flynn in reciting the oath to the Constitution that members of Congress take.

At the end of oath, Michael Flynn uttered the phrase "Where we go one, we go all," and the entire family responded, "God Bless America." CNN edited out the pledge and the "God Bless America" exclamation and claimed the phrase uttered by President Trump's national security adviser was an "infamous QAnon slogan," the suit alleged.

In fact, Michael Flynn's phrase was drawn from an inscription first "engraved on a bell on one of President John F. Kennedy's sailboats, acknowledging the unity of mankind," the suit stated.

"General Flynn intended to encourage people to think about being good citizens, to love country and be good patriots," the lawsuit said. "The video had nothing to do with QAnon or recruiting 'digital soldiers' for an apocalyptic reckoning."

As a result, "CNN falsely accused Plaintiffs of being 'followers' and supporters of the 'dangerous,' 'violent,' 'racist,' 'extremist,' 'insurrectionist,' 'domestic terrorism movement – QAnon," the suit argued.

"Plaintiffs are not followers or supporters of any extremist or terrorist groups, including QAnon," it added. "CNN falsely attributed to Plaintiffs associations that never existed, actions Plaintiffs never took, including an oath of allegiance to QAnon, and views Plaintiffs never held."

CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon left at its corporate press office in New York.

Steven S. Biss, the Flynns' lawyer, accused CNN of being "a Democratic Party trumpet that foreswore its role as an impartial reporter of facts and joined with political partisans in an overall plan or scheme to discredit the character of the Flynns. For that, it must be held accountable by a jury.”

Leslie Flynn said in a statement that her family was intent on fighting a disparagement campaign against Gen. Flynn's family.

"Enough is enough with CNN, and the lies about our family,” she said. "We cannot sit by any longer and allow CNN to disparage our good name. This has got to stop."

In the lawsuit, the Flynns alleged the CNN report caused their family "public scorn, ridicule and contempt, and lowered their esteem in the community, causing insult, embarrassment, humiliation and substantial injury to Plaintiffs' reputations."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 75million; michaelflynn; qanon
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To: Gene Eric

CNN is ATT — ATT is paying out the nose to keep that malicious operation afloat.

ATT will just keep raising the price of DirecTv.


21 posted on 03/26/2021 5:45:25 AM PDT by sijay
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To: romanesq; Cletus.D.Yokel
"""QAnon grifters were a scam to get Boomer $$$.

The Qult is dead but there’s some dead enders left."""

Learn all about grifters and Git Mo Bucks n Yucks.

Just one click away to a threadfull of discovery. See how easy it is to prove you're a repetitive liar and division troll?


22 posted on 03/26/2021 5:46:00 AM PDT by haffast (Double Standards Exist. Freedom of Speech. Patriots are Dying. Woke is hard. Anons Know.)
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To: bitt

This is how it works. Take a bunch of misguided crazy people and tar normal non-crazy people with the same brush.

Thank you Letter Man. Your contribution to the cause has been invaluable. (said every leftist and MSM-type alive).


23 posted on 03/26/2021 5:59:06 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Warning FRiends! Q-tard 🚨 Alert!!

🙅🏼‍♂️


24 posted on 03/26/2021 8:52:19 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: haffast

QAnon grifters didn’t start any research foundation. Lol

Trying to reinvent the Q scam isn’t working. 🤣

Where is your mighty, fake, imaginary Military Q leader?

HAHAHAHAHA!


25 posted on 03/26/2021 8:55:13 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: David Chase

Does Pelosi look smug and confident, or scared and desperately reaching for things well outside of historical norms?

Does Trump look frightened, or happy?


26 posted on 03/26/2021 8:59:59 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: romanesq
Oooo.
Good burn, Kelso.


27 posted on 03/26/2021 9:27:11 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Thank you


28 posted on 03/26/2021 10:33:08 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: romanesq
"Trying to reinvent the Q scam isn’t working."

No reviving needed, it's still alive!  From the "Welcome Page":

"Remember that /pol/ was here before any of you, and Q came to /pol/, not the other way around."

Let that sink into your no nothing Q-Tard noggin'.


"Where is your mighty, fake, imaginary Military Q leader?"

He's been busy fighting socialism while you and defango, just like the MSM grift, busy yourselves undermining him:

Trump slams Fauci as a 'media creation' in exclusive interview

Laura Ingraham questions former President Trump on whether he should have given Dr. Fauci so much power

https://youtu.be/JlYsux_kcvU

Trump gives exclusive reaction to Biden's first press conference

Former President Donald Trump tells 'The Ingraham Angle' press was 'throwing softballs' at Biden.

https://youtu.be/xZaNhtjaKW0


Have you noticed the number of views your babble-on leader defango has been getting for years?  Hardly worth watching, except when the subject is Q, then BAM, grift potential spikes! You know, like MSM.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0C1bN_WAwurH377z-zwwew/videos

09:47 be doing [ __ ] and I see JB our army our
09:52 boi JB just gave us 999 through super
09:55 Chet Thank You JB for your generous

I wonder if that was "The Real JB" (James Brower)? :)

11:19 Youngblood and then we got other homeboy
11:25 over here which is Adam Gingrich
11:27 guessing the guy that's the head of the
11:29 militia which is a super PAC the super
11:32 trick that helped get electrum (sic Trump) elected

11:58 ginger mcqueen coming through with the
12:00 $10 cue and honest carrot defend his
12:02 killing q and on thank you appreciate
12:05 that appreciate that a lot
12:07 I don't know if you pulled that out of
12:09 the Magna Coalition piggy bank or not
12:11 but you better make sure that you guys
12:12 are doing any [ __ ] shady [ __ ] over
12:13 there watching you grow I've seen some
12:16 things on the Twitter's that be saying
12:20 if there's some [ __ ] happening I don't
12:21 know that's what we're talking about so

Along with JB and Ginger, Glenn Herman aka New York City Guns, VP of now KAPUT MAGA Coalition drops by and donates $9.99 to defango's Super Chat too.  What up with that?

https://www.qanon.pub/?q=coalition

https://www.qanon.pub/?q=followers

https://www.qanon.pub/?q=god

Got more of this Git Mo Bucks n Yucks and if I have time today I'll post it on that other thread as it seems to go together.  You know, where Glenn(aka NYC Guns) speculates Trump was running the "Q" operation from the White House while quoting "Q" Twitter accounts.

Besides, stupid "Boomers" have trouble following information delivered in a non-linear fashion, or so says defango. We can put faces to names. We need to help them!  ;)

29 posted on 03/27/2021 6:22:15 AM PDT by haffast (Double Standards Exist. Freedom of Speech. Patriots are Dying. Woke is hard. Anons Know.)
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To: haffast

Your fake, imaginary Qult leader isn’t fighting socialism and isn’t fighting anything.

The fake Qanon scam and its fake Military Intel leader isn’t fighting anything because he doesn’t exist.

Never did haffass.

Sorry to be the one who has to tell you the obvious.


30 posted on 03/27/2021 9:45:00 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: romanesq
What's obvious are the faces of KAPUTers.
31 posted on 03/27/2021 10:18:33 AM PDT by haffast (Double Standards Exist. Freedom of Speech. Patriots are Dying. Woke is hard. Anons Know.)
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To: haffast

Your Qult is dead haffass.

The Flynn family not only wants nothing to do with the QAnon grift, they’re suing to be delinked from it.

😁🤡🙌🏼🦆🙅🏼‍♂️🐸👹


32 posted on 03/27/2021 12:21:20 PM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: romanesq

Why would I give any credence to what a lowly water carrier wannabe for defango, Travis View, HotWheels or the Fake News with your and their record of KAPUTS has to say?

Sheesh, even JME_FAN, self declared close friend of Gingrich, made KAPUT MAGA Coalition YT chat mod, and you didn’t, and I don’t listen to that old guard GOP blowhard either.

Information warfare. You’re barely smart enough to be a useful tool, ad hominy grits boi. Too much “water” in the mix. ;)

“Dances with Evancho”(”Walter” aka “Toasty”), dance away, dance away, dance away all. Beat it! :)

Let me save you some time: #FREETHEBOOMERS, “Your Qult is dead” etc etc etc yada yada yada


33 posted on 03/27/2021 2:00:42 PM PDT by haffast (Double Standards Exist. Freedom of Speech. Patriots are Dying. Woke is hard. Anons Know.)
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To: haffast

Don’t think someone who fell for an online Qult scam is in any position to point to anyone lacking intelligence.

Take a look at your dead Qult haffass and then take a long look in the mirror.

You feel for online grifters from the bowels of the internet. Not even daytime drunks are here to help you in your deluded religious belief in the Qult.

We are laughing!


34 posted on 03/27/2021 2:04:48 PM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: romanesq

They were all about it, including the stupid WWG1WGA oath. But that is when the Qnuts were shoveling money to them, because Flynn was part of the canon. Now that it is inconvenient, they are out.


35 posted on 03/27/2021 4:28:44 PM PDT by ready2brd
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To: ready2brd

They went along for donations. Now, no one wants to be connected in any shape or form to that wretched Qult.


36 posted on 03/27/2021 4:48:16 PM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: romanesq
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37 posted on 03/28/2021 6:17:52 AM PDT by haffast (Double Standards Exist. Freedom of Speech. Patriots are Dying. Woke is hard. Anons Know.)
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To: ransomnote

And if there was, they would have ot prove it was a”’dangerous,’ ‘violent,’ ‘racist,’ ‘extremist,’ ‘insurrectionist,’ ‘domestic terrorism movement’”

QAnon is none of those things. It is a loose group of patriots who use the internet to monitor and work against leftist fascism.


38 posted on 03/29/2021 8:10:19 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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