Michael Flynn sues conspiracy theorist over lurid QAnon claims

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Michael Flynn is suing another conspiracist who accused him of cooking up the QAnon cult, according to a report.

The disgraced former national security adviser has spread conspiracies about Donald Trump’s election loss and the COVID-19 pandemic, but he filed a lawsuit against alternate reality game developer Jim Stewartson for accusing him of taking part in a Kremlin-funded psychological warfare operation intended to destroy U.S. democracy, reported Vice News.

“Mike Flynn, the worst traitor in history who stole 2016, created Q, planned the insurrection,” Stewartson tweeted on Wednesday, more than a week after burning a cease-and-desist letter from Flynn’s attorney related to his allegations.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism “has found no evidence to support” Stewartson’s claims about Flynn’s role in the QAnon conspiracy theory, and a defamation lawsuit filed last week in Sarasota County, Florida, details a long list of accusations he has made in social media posts, Substack articles and podcasts.

“Stewartson sought fame through the trend of defaming prominent conservative figures,” the suit alleges.

“[Those] pernicious lies … [include] accusing him of committing treason and domestic terrorism, working for Vladimir Putin, being a Russian asset, stealing the 2016 election, working to overthrow the United States government, planning and executing a violent insurrection, being a leader of QAnon, being a Nazi, waging psychological warfare on the American people, wanting a second Holocaust, using ISIS radicalization techniques on the American people, torturing prisoners, and literally trying to murder former Vice President Mike Pence,” the complaint adds.

Despite Flynn’s denials of involvement in the QAnon conspiracy, many of its adherents consider him a hero and attend the conferences and speeches he gives around the country repeating Trump’s election lies, and the former president has suggested he would have another role for the national security adviser he pardoned if elected to another term.

In 2020, Trump pardoned him after he had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. It involved interactions he had with Russia’s ambassador to the United States.

“You stay in good health Michael, get ready, okay, it’s not long, only a year and a half, just stay healthy,” Trump said in a speech last month.

Stewartson has 20 days to file a written response to the lawsuit, but he has shown no signs of letting go of his allegations despite his inability to establish hard evidence that Flynn has received training in psychological warfare or was working with the Kremlin to destabilize democracy.

“I think that @GenFlynn is a psychological warfare expert who knows how to protect himself with his ‘army of digital soldiers’ including you,” he tweeted in response to a request for comment from Vice.

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CNN anchor Abby Phillip clashed with her GOP colleagues on Wednesday over the decision to suspend "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on network television.

Phillip discussed the move with former Republican Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker and GOP strategist Scott Jennings. It occurred just hours after Nexstar Media Group, which owns several local ABC affiliates, announced that it is suspending Kimmel's show "indefinitely" because of comments the comedian made about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's slaying.

Phillip questioned the timeline of Kimmel's suspension and the involvement of FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the deal. On Tuesday, Carr gave a threatening interview with MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson, where he claimed that the FCC would be taking active measures to ensure broadcast companies abide by the public interest standard.

Within 24 hours, Kimmel was pulled off the air, Phillip noted.

"Nexstar has a very clear financial interest in not getting on the wrong side of that guy," Phillip said to Walker, talking about Carr. "You don't see the problem with that?"

Both Walker and Jennings argued that Nexstar was making a "business decision" by taking Kimmel off the air.

"Do you believe in free speech or not?" Phillip asked pointedly.

"I do, but you can't expect us to sit with our hands tied behind our backs," Walker said.