Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's son is not merely Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's son. Michael Flynn, Jr. is also his father's chief of staff and is on Donald Trump's transition team. And he shares his father's penchant for stupid, moronic conspiracy theories.
In the hours after a gunman was arrested inside a D.C. restaurant after he entered and fired shots in an attempt to "self-investigate" the Trump-promoting hoax news story that the pizzeria was a front for "child trafficking" efforts by Hillary Clinton and her allies, Michael Flynn, Jr. was back on social media defending and promoting the hoax again.
On Sunday, Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., tweeted, “Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it'll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many ‘coincidences’ tied to it.”
The younger Flynn, who has served as his father’s adviser, linked to the account of Jack Posobiec, whose Twitter account describes him as the special projects director of a group called Citizens4Trump.
Posobiec said [the gunman's] actions were a “false flag,” and claimed he was an actor carrying out an elaborate conspiracy to discredit sites that spread the fabricated #PizzaGate accusations.
Ah, the "false flag." The tail feather of every halfwit conspiracy theorist's most halfwit claims. The incontrovertible proof you're dealing with is someone who has sent his mind on permanent holiday is the mention of (1) "secret tunnels" or (2) "false flag!"
Flynn didn't let it go there, either. He spent the next day prolifically retweeting dregs of the internet like alt-right megatroll Mike Cernovich, but devoted most of his attention to mocking CNN’s Jake Tapper for Tapper's personal, private attempt to talk him down.
“I must’ve really hit a nerve” is, for the record, the third thing that immediately tells you you’re not just reading the words of a conspiracy believer, but an enormously stupid one. Yes, that’s it: Everyone yelling at you for believing something so objectively ridiculous is obviously evidence that the entire rest of the world is in on the conspiracy. Of course. Makes perfect sense, and so forth. And the only way to protect yourself from the conspirators is to jam a fork as far into your ear as it will go, thus creating a silverware-based antenna for receiving the real truth from the real truth satellites.
That’s what the neighborhood pizza place doesn’t want you to know. The fork thing.
A casual perusal of Flynn's Twitter feed shows him to be embedded firmly in the ranks of the alt-right, filled with the usual lunatic screeds about Kellogg's, Black Lives Matter, and, of course, conspiracy theories.
And that, yes, he's precisely the sort of person who even after a gunman entered a restaurant in a bizarre attempt to "self-investigate" claims peddled by Flynn's online friends would still insist that there must be something to those claims—and that even the gunman himself was likely a plant.
He's on the transition team. He works very closely with his conspiracy-addled father. For Trump.
On national security.
And he's obviously not sane.