Posted on 03/26/2021 9:30:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s relatives filed a $75 million defamation lawsuit against CNN on Thursday.
Flynn’s brother and sister-in-law, Jack and Leslie Flynn, sued the network in U.S. District Court in New York City for allegedly portraying them and their family as supporters of QAnon, an online conspiracy theory. The Flynns claimed that CNN deceptively edited footage in a Feb. 4 segment on the conspiracy to implicate the Flynn family, according to The Daily Beast. As the outlet reports:
The segment largely shows footage of a meeting of QAnon supporters, including the photogenic icon of the Capitol riot known as the QAnon Shaman, but also briefly shows video tweeted by Michael Flynn of a July 4th gathering of his extended family. In the video, the Flynns recite a pledge to the U.S. constitution and end it with “Where we go one, we go all,” a slogan so frequently used by QAnon adherents it appears as the abbreviation WWG1WGA on movement merchandise. Jack and Leslie Flynn contend, however, that the slogan is unrelated to the movement and that they are “not followers or supporters of any extremist or terrorist groups, including QAnon,” despite being allegedly inaccurately portrayed as such.
CNN goes inside a gathering of QAnon followers. https://t.co/u7ZT0pokSo pic.twitter.com/C7fK6SPpWb
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) February 5, 2021
Michael Flynn served briefly as former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser before he resigned the post while under scrutiny for allegedly lying to the FBI. The allegation turned into legal charges and a court battle that lasted roughly three years and ended with a pardon from Trump.
“It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!” Trump tweeted on Nov. 25.
Prior to Trump’s pardon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) had moved to drop the charges against Flynn after a review of the case revealed that federal prosecutors had failed to turn over exculpatory evidence that undercut the DOJ’s case against him, according to former Attorney General William Barr.
“It’s on the question of materiality that we feel really that a crime cannot be established here because there was not, in our view, a legitimate investigation going on,” Barr said in a May interview explaining his decision to drop the case against Flynn. “They did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage, based on a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition.”
Despite the prosecution moving to drop the case, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan kept the case active and appointed an outside attorney to continue to prosecute the case. Sullivan had given no sign of wanting to close the case until Trump issued his pardon.
Related: The DOJ Just Dropped Its Case Against Flynn. Here Are Some Of The Key Moments
Wait. Being falsely identified as a Qtard warrants at 75 million Dollar lawsuit?
Yeah. I can see that. Totally.
Y E S!!!
when is this idiot up for re-election?
RE: when is this idiot up for re-election?
Who are you referring to?
Go for it! I’m surprised it took this long to begin the lawsuit.
Who are you talking about?
Not a billion dollars? What the heck?
Looks like General Flynn & famility are trolls & Deep Staters to use Q-ster terms !
It should be $2.6 billion. $1 bi.lion more than dominion is suing for, after all Mike Flynn has gone through way way more than dominion has in term software being maliciously and falsely accused and tried and harassed
RE: Go for it! I’m surprised it took this long to begin the lawsuit.
My only concern is this — why only $75 million?
Dominion sued Fox News for $1.6 billion for defamation. That’s the figure Flynn should be aiming at.
“I’m surprised it took this long to begin the lawsuit.”
It might have taken that long to find an attorney who has the moral courage to take on the case.
I don't even know where to start. They sure did SEEM to be supporters of the notion that there is a deep state that is detrimental to the health of the USA. And there sure is a SIZABLE number of people who believe in and are fighting against this very thing. And it's a fact that many of those DO (or at least did) agree with many of the concepts of "Qanon".
But then again everyone knows that qanon was never a radical revolutionary we're gonna kill everyone who doens't agree with us group.
So it's a tough thing to defend against...
The horned viking moron, the so called “shaman” who is/was a PAID actor (source of payment without any doubt the dems derp state and their blm/antifa pals) was play acting as a— as you call them- a “q-tard”.
He is, in fact, a Colorado pothead neo-socialist/anarchist with a very stoned/booze washed mind who makes no sense whatsoever in radio interviews. A real rambling idiot, a useful idiot photogenic for the “riot” that he and his fellow actors/actresses working out of SAG/AFTRA occasionals lists- picked up by the dem go-betweens in hollywood.
This is not LTG Flynn, but his brother Jack and sister-in-law who were constantly being harassed by CNN, DailyBeast and other operatives working against the LTG, and aiding and abetting the entire Coup efforts begun by obamaumao in January 2017 and agreed to in the WH by none other that JoeBama his- own-self.
The “digital soldiers” LTG Flynn referred to— the real ones, exist and they are not “tards”. They are up against the vast now domestically illegally active civilian “spy agencies” the Clowns In Action, and febrile bureau of matters (the “take a knee for BLM” agents and ancillaries all over the US who still think they are a viable anti-”extremist” policing agency, but in fact are the base staffing for the Leftist Federal Police which obamaumao proposed to take over State and Local law enforcement).
Never-Trumpers have never understood who the progressive morons are within the GOPe, and their apparatchiks in DOJ/FBI and Clowns— the ones Liz Cheney sings praises- for the good of their mil-industrial payouts. After all, Strozk is teaching...at f’n Georgetown, presumably no longer getting together with his fellow Iranian heritage GF, Page for hump sessions (she having realized she was used by Brennan’s emplant agent at the Bureau/DOJ). And uh, JoeBama the demented one, still has NOT spoken to President Zelinsky of Ukraine— doesn’t think he has to with the re-cover up of criminal actions.
Great job!
Good point. Dominion has suffered nothing. Flynn has been put through hell.
He sure has- he poor man has been through what’s called “Malicious prosecution and abuse of process”
He is as deep in the Q BS as you can get. He is going to lose this suit, quickly
And the Flynn family better win. Punch back twice as hard.
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