Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the 25th United States National Security Advisor. Flynn’s military career included a key role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. He served as the 18th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, from July 2012 until his forced retirement from the military in August 2014. Flynn served as a senior advisor to Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. On February 13, 2017, he resigned after information surfaced that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the nature and content of his communications with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.
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Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the 25th United States National Security Advisor. Flynn’s military career included a key role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. He served as the 18th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, from July 2012 until his forced retirement from the military in August 2014. Flynn served as a senior advisor to Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. On February 13, 2017, he resigned after information surfaced that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the nature and content of his communications with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. In December 2017, Flynn formalized a deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to plead guilty to a felony count of \”willfully and knowingly\” making false statements to the FBI. In January 2020 Flynn moved to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming government vindictiveness and breach of the plea agreement. On November 25, 2020, Flynn was issued a presidential pardon by Donald Trump. On January 8, 2021, Twitter permanently banned Flynn, Powell and others who promoted QAnon. Flynn pledged an oath to the pro-TrumpQAnon conspiracy theory. On July 4, 2020,. Flynn suggested the president should suspend the Constitution, silence the press and hold a new election under military authority. Flynn later met with Trump and their attorney Sidney Powell in the Oval Office to discuss the president’s options. Trump denied reports that Flynn’s martial law idea had been discussed.
On December 8,2020, Judge Sullivan dismissed the criminal case against Flynn, stating he probably would have denied the Justice Department motion to drop the case. On December 7, 2020. Flynn was a Distinguished Graduate of the ROTC and was a Master of Military Command and Staff. He graduated with a Bachelor of Military Science degree in 1981 from the University of Rhode Island. He is a fellow lieutenant general, Charles A. Flynn, who served in World War II and fought during the Battle of the Bulge while traveling under General George S. Patton. Flynn is the brother of Charles Flynn, a fellow Lt. General who also served in the Army and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was married to Lori Andrade, who he later met on Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island, where he would later marry in 1981. He has a son, Michael Flynn Jr., and a daughter, Flynn Flynn III, who were married in 2012. Flynn and his wife, Lori, have two sons, Michael Michael Flynn III and Michael Flynn, Jr., who were born in 2008 and 2013. Flynn has a daughter and a son-in-law, Cpl. Michael C. Flynn Jr. who was born in 2009 and is also a fellow Lieutenant General. Flynn retired from the Army in August 2012. In March 2013, Flynn retroactively registered as a foreign agent, acknowledging that in 2016 he had conducted paid lobbying work that may have benefited Turkey’s government. In June 2013, he established Flynn Intel Group, which provided intelligence services for businesses and governments, including in Turkey. He also served a year of supervised probation at Middletown High School.
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