advocating that president trump should declare martial law, he should have to u.s. military seize voting machines and have to military rerun the election in places trump lost. he later publicly endorsed that the united states should have a flat-out military coup, where the military just ousts the civilian government and takes over. he was asked about that in the context of a military coup in myanmar earlier this year. he said we should have one of those, too. aside from those headline making moments, what general flynn has mostly been up to over the course of the past year, what appears to be essentially his job, the thing he spends hi too many on, what he a parentally is monetizing to great effect is his role as a prominent endorser of the qanon conspiracy theory. the sort of mass delusion among trump supporters in which they believe the democratic party and the government and also hollywood maybe are run by a
watching. your reaction was, wow, here we go. it was shocking, but on another level it wasn t surprising because trump telegraphed what he was going to do for months before january of 2021. during the campaign he said that he could only lose if the election were rigged. he said that this would be the most corrupt election in history because of mail-in voting. he did all he attacked the election immediately after he realized votes weren t coming in. he had people in the oval office during after the election talking about the possibility of declaring martial law and rerunning having the military rerun the election. this was all of a piece for his personality and for who he was and what he had been doing for four years, but particularly in 2020 and 2021. what s interesting, one aspect that s interesting to me about milley s observations about this