GOP candidate claims Michael Flynn hoped to blackmail U.S. officials into pro-Trump 'audits'

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-candidate-claims-michael-flynn-hoped-to-blackmail-u-s-officials-into-pro-trump-audits/

A Republican Senate candidate alleged over the weekend that Michael Flynn, the retired general and former national security adviser, has sought damaging information on elected officials in a number of states, with the apparent goal of blackmailing them into supporting conspiratorial election audits meant to reinforce Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

Everett Stern, a businessman who owns a private intelligence firm called Tactical Rabbit and is running for the open U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, held a press conference Saturday to share his purported findings, later tweeting out a link to the video of his remarks titled, "Everett Stern Releases New Evidence of Ongoing Domestic Terror Threat Links to General Michael T. Flynn."

"I'm here today not as a candidate running for U.S. Senate, I'm here as a citizen who is genuinely concerned about our country, sincerely concerned about the undermining of our democracy," Stern said in the opening moments of his statement. He also claimed to be in touch with federal law enforcement about the situation.

Stern claims that at least two people representing a Flynn-linked group called "Patriot Caucus" approached him earlier this year after a public speech, offering to hire his firm to gather "dirt" on officials and recruit others to assist in the plot. One of the men allegedly told Stern that they had retained the services of active intelligence officials "both domestic and foreign."

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[Botany]

1. Mother Fucker, "Lock him up."

Judge Sullivan to Flynn:

“All along, you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security advisor to the president of the United States,” Sullivan told Flynn, referring to the other case, for which Flynn was not charged.

“That undermines everything this flag over here stands for,” the judge said. “Arguably you sold your country out.”

[Nevilledog]

3. Original Salon article

Link to tweet

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/31/candidate-michael-flynn-trying-to-run-extortion-scheme-on-us-officials-to-reinstall/


A Republican Senate candidate alleged over the weekend that Michael Flynn, the retired general and former national security adviser, has sought damaging information on elected officials in a number of states, with the apparent goal of blackmailing them into supporting conspiratorial election audits meant to reinforce Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

Everett Stern, a businessman who owns a private intelligence firm called Tactical Rabbit and is running for the open U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, held a press conference Saturday to share his purported findings, later tweeting out a link to the video of his remarks titled, "Everett Stern Releases New Evidence of Ongoing Domestic Terror Threat Links to General Michael T. Flynn."

"I'm here today not as a candidate running for U.S. Senate, I'm here as a citizen who is genuinely concerned about our country, sincerely concerned about the undermining of our democracy," Stern said in the opening moments of his statement. He also claimed to be in touch with federal law enforcement about the situation.

Stern claims that at least two people representing a Flynn-linked group called "Patriot Caucus" approached him earlier this year after a public speech, offering to hire his firm to gather "dirt" on officials and recruit others to assist in the plot. One of the men allegedly told Stern that they had retained the services of active intelligence officials "both domestic and foreign."

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[malaise]

4. Hoped to

I'm still convinced that this is ongoing - nothing else makes sense even for ReTHUGs

[Irish_Dem]

5. I agree, this is not a new tactic.

And yes it would explain a lot.

[tanyev]

7. It could also explain Republicans that were genuinely scared/horrified

on Jan. 6th, and then quickly fell back in line afterwards.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Yep.

[tanyev]

9. I also wonder about TX governor, Greg Abbott.

He was always basic Republican bad, but he seems to have morphed into a sociopath in the last couple of years. Very odd.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Nothing would surprise me at this point. Dark forces everywhere.

What about DeSantis?
He seems hell bent on destroying Florida for political gain.

[Mr. Ected]

6. GOP candidate for Senate? He's really putting his neck out on the block here.

I probably would disagree with every policy this man stands for, except the most important one: he seems to favor America and not a neo-fascist state.

I wonder if he's safe.