At the end of oath, Michael Flynn uttered the phrase "Where we go one, we go all," and the entire family responded, "God Bless America." CNN edited out the pledge and the "God Bless America" exclamation and claimed the phrase uttered by President Trump's national security adviser was an "infamous QAnon slogan," the suit alleged.
In fact, Michael Flynn's phrase was drawn from an inscription first "engraved on a bell on one of President John F. Kennedy's sailboats, acknowledging the unity of mankind," the suit stated.
"General Flynn intended to encourage people to think about being good citizens, to love country and be good patriots," the lawsuit said. "The video had nothing to do with QAnon or recruiting 'digital soldiers' for an apocalyptic reckoning."
The recording released by Wood comes amid acrimony among leading pro-Trump figures who have worked to overturn the 2020 election. According to the Daily Beast, the feud appears to have sprung from Wood's brief representation of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old recently acquitted after killing two people and wounding one at a protest in Wisconsin last year.Depends on what one means by 'the deep state'. This 3-decade congressional staff member, speaking to Bill Moyers in 2014, certainly thought that a version of it was real:
According to the Beast, Rittenhouse alleged that Wood intentionally let him languish in jail so he could earn money off the case. Wood reportedly became angry that Flynn and Sidney Powell, another pro-Trump attorney, didn't speak up for him.
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The recording apparently featuring Flynn disowning QAnon raised echoes of remarks about a related conspiracy theory by Steve Bannon, Trump's former campaign chair and White House strategist.
Bannon was pardoned on fraud charges by Trump but now faces a charge of contempt of Congress over the 6 January Capitol attack, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
He has repeatedly promoted the "deep state" conspiracy theory, which holds that a permanent government of bureaucrats and intelligence agents exists to thwart Trump's agenda.
However, Bannon has also said the "deep state conspiracy theory is for nut cases".
As a recent Nature journal piece notes, COVID-19 lockdowns have prepared people for "personal carbon allowances." Restrictions on individual freedoms "that were unthinkable only one year before" have us "more prepared to accept the tracking and limitations" to "achieve a safer climate," the piece notes.
And many self-professed defenders of our "democracy" have been clamoring for the Department of Health and Human Services to take unilateral action and treat climate as a "public health issue" or to declare a "climate emergency." The White House has given the issue a required identity-based twist, noting that global warming's risks "disproportionately affect poor and minority communities." (Which reminds me of P.J. O'Rourke's old joke about NPR coverage: "World To End — Poor and Minorities Hardest-Hit.")
Americans experienced the authoritarian reach of government during the pandemic. We see what normalizing those ideas can look like in Australia.
Comment: Between this new book by Scott Atlas, Robert F. Kennedy's new book on Fauci - and the hard work of many hundreds of doctors, scientists, researchers and whistleblowers - the word is slowly but surely trickling out to the world of 'normies'; a Monumental crime has been, and continues to be - perpetrated against humanity. And woe to those who've helped usher in the profound damage that has deeply affected all of us.