Michael Flynn served in the Trump administration for approximately as long as it takes Donald Trump’s languorous, M.C. Escher-like grotesquerie of a colon to pass a Happy Meal. He was our country’s national security adviser for about three weeks in early 2017, during which time he did his level best to make Vladimir Putin’s dewiest wet dreams come true.
He was famously fired—by Trump himself—after he falsely denied discussing sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak prior to Trump taking office. According to The Washington Post, the discussions were “interpreted by some senior U.S. officials as an inappropriate and potentially illegal signal to the Kremlin that it could expect a reprieve from sanctions that were being imposed by the Obama administration in late December to punish Russia for its alleged interference in the 2016 election.”
In other words, he cozied up to the murderous Putin regime and was likely dangling sanctions relief in an effort to quickly pay back Putin’s support of Trump and Russia’s financial backing of Flynn himself.
So you’d think someone who’d literally received payments from Dipshit Hitler before attempting to make sketchy backroom deals with a tyrannical, rapacious regime that now threatens all of Europe and, for that matter, the world, might be just a touch reticent about those payments.
Ah, but then you don’t know MAGA, which feeds on fake outrages like Matt Gaetz’s Venmo dates nosh dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets with ketchup.
Michael Flynn, the disgraced former national security adviser under Donald Trump, has criticized the U.S. Army for attempting to retrieve nearly $40,000 he received from Russia in 2015.
Retired Lt. Gen. Flynn, who was convicted of lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia before being pardoned by Trump, accused the Department of Defense of trying to "embarrass" him by trying to get money he was paid by the Kremlin.
In a May 2 letter, the Army said Flynn may have violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution—which states that no person holding office can accept a gift from a foreign state—after he was paid by state-controlled television network Russia Today to attend a gala in December 2015.
Again, this is the same Russia that’s currently doing its best shitfaced Godzilla impression up and down Ukraine’s Donbas region … the same characters who pounded an entire city of 400,000-plus innocent souls into rubble … and the same yawning assholes who keep scaring us shitless with vague threats of nuclear winter.
But sure, the real outrage is Michael Flynn being forced to cough up the money Russia paid him for sitting next to Vladimir Putin at a gala. (By the way, 2016 election spoiler Jill Stein was there, too.)
FLYNN: “I’m not surprised at the snarkiness, at the evil that exists inside of our government right now, particularly the national security state, which has overcome the military-industrial complex by far, head and shoulders above, now. They are trying to run this country. And they don’t like people like me because they know that … they do not want me coming back into government in any capacity, because they know that I know how they operate, and they know exactly what I would have done had I stayed in much longer as a national security advisor to then Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. And, you know, so they had to get rid of me very quickly.”
Maybe they don’t want him back in government because he’s a smidge beholden to our biggest geopolitical enemy and, well, was literally working for Turkey while he was a top adviser to Trump’s campaign? And because he didn’t tell anyone about it until March 2017, even though he was required by law to register as a foreign agent?
“So I’m not surprised at this. It’s just another dig, another means to embarrass, another way that they just want me to shut up. And I’m not about to, it’s not in my nature. I’m not designed that way, and I will tell you that it actually stiffens my backbone even more, because at the end of the day, they’re just going to reach into my retirement, and they’re going to take some money out. Money that—yeah, it means something, but at the end of the day this country means a heck of a lot more than what they will do to me, and it ought to be a sign to everybody, to all your listeners, everybody that watches this show and everybody that will see it in other means on social media and in podcasts.”
Yeah, I’m sure “this country” does mean a heck of a lot more to him than any punishment he might receive. He’s still talking about Russia, right?
[...] “So with me standing up and doing what I’m doing, I hope that it encourages at least one other person. That’s really all I’m looking for. I’m looking for that one person who’s willing to stand up, step up, and speak up and do the kinds of things that we need to do to rescue this country from this persecution we’re all going through, which is a slide towards communism and Marxism. It really is. We can’t kid ourselves anymore.”
For fuck’s sake. Just give the money back, Generalissimo. For some reason, I doubt the victims of the Bucha massacre will feel much sympathy for you or your made-up plight. Of course, a real human with an actual conscience wouldn’t hesitate to return Putin’s blood money. But being MAGA means never having to say you’re sorry—even (or, rather, especially) when you’re guilty as fuck.
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