QAnon Hero Michael Flynn Secretly Says QAnon Is ‘Complete Nonsense’

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn accepted his position as a hero to QAnon conspiracy theorists. He took the oath of QAnon, sold QAnon t-shirts, and even auction a QAnon quilt. He appeared at a QAnon conference and signed books with the tagline QAnon. Some QAnon followers even believe that Flynn is “Q”, the mysterious figure behind QAnon.

But an audio recording released Saturday night by a one-time ally of Flynn reveals that the retired three-star general discreetly believes QAnon is “complete nonsense.”

On Saturday night, pro-Trump and QAnon lawyers push for Lin Wood release a recording The purpose was a phone call between Wood and Flynn on Telegram. The audio track was released amid a raging right-wing civil war with Wood against one-time allies like Flynn and other figures involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.

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During the call, Wood complained to Flynn that his QAnon supporters had attacked Wood online. But Flynn tries to get rid of QAnon, calling it a “disinformation campaign” created by the CIA.

“I think it’s a disinformation campaign,” Flynn said on the call. “I think it was a disinformation campaign that the CIA created. That’s what I believe. Now, I don’t know if that’s true, but that’s what I think. I think it’s a disinformation campaign.”

Later in the recording, Flynn calls QAnon “complete nonsense.”

“I find it completely pointless,” Flynn said. “And I think it’s a disinformation campaign created by the left.”

Flynn could not be reached for comment.

During the call, Flynn promised to send Wood an article about QAnon’s failure to materialize. Based on text messages from Flynn that Wood also published on his Telegram account, the article that Flynn referred to on the call was a November 2 article by the neo-conservative radio host. white skin Hal Turner endorsed the idea of ​​mass violence.

In the blog post Flynn appears to have quoted, Turner mocks the QAnon believers who have come to Dallas to believe that John F. Kennedy Jr. will appear. Turner wrote that Trump supporters will repeatedly look like idiots “until something like a mass carnage happens,” writing that the downfall of JFK Jr. was caused because people were “too cowardly to stand up, pick up guns and go kill” Turner falsely claimed to have stolen the election.

Flynn’s denial of privacy to QAnon would mark a major blow to the conspiracy theory movement, which claims the world is run by a group of cannibals that only Trumpworld stars like Flynn can. can be beat. In May, Flynn was considered a hero at a QAnon conference in Dallas, where he authentication the idea of ​​a Myanmar-style coup in the United States.

Wood’s publication of this audio clip is part of a growing feud between Wood and Flynn and other figures active in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The fight began last week when Kenosha was recently released. acquitted defendant Kyle Rittenhouse, a former client of Wood, Defendant Wood in a Fox News interview about deliberately keeping him in jail to raise money from his case.

Unexpectedly attacked by Rittenhouse, Wood was openly angry that allies like Flynn and pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell hadn’t worked hard to protect him. The ensuing clash has decimated QAnon and other far-right communities over the past week, while Wood has grown increasingly hostile, even claiming at one point of time that a plane he was about to fly had been crashed. sabotage in an attempt to kill him.

It is not clear when the call between Wood and Flynn took place, although it appears to have come in early November since Flynn mentioned Turner’s article. The Daily Beast was unable to verify the authenticity of the audio, but Wood regularly recorded phone calls with his allies and reporters. Last week, Wood released a recording of a call with former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, a one-time ally of Wood. join the effort to overturn the election. Byrne, who was arrested on the call criticizing Powell, confirmed the authenticity of the recording in his own Telegram post.