In Oval Office meeting on Friday, Michael Flynn urged Trump to impose martial law

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Saturday December 19, 2020 · 3:58 PM PST

2020/12/19 · 15:58

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Retired Army Lt. General Michael Flynn arrives for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump at the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Flynn is appointed National Security Advisor to Trump. Donald J. Trump will become the 45th president of the United States today. (Photo by Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)

(CNN)President Donald Trump convened a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, including lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter said, describing a session that began as an impromptu gathering but devolved and eventually broke out into screaming matches at certain points as some of Trump's aides pushed back on Powell and Flynn's more outrageous suggestions about overturning the election.

Flynn had suggested earlier this week that Trump could invoke martial law as part of his efforts to overturn the election that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden -- an idea that arose again during the meeting in the Oval Office, one of the people said. It wasn't clear whether Trump endorsed the idea, but others in the room forcefully pushed back and shot it down.

As first order of business for President Biden, Flynn should be stripped of his former rank and uniform, stripped of his pension, and arrested and locked up, pending a hearing into sedition charges.

Last I heard, willful self-delusion is not a defense to sedition. Presumably this conversation and his advocacy is on record.

Just imagine if, God forbid, something like this had been urged in a Democratic administration.

He is a traitor.

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