Mike Flynn is an innocent man. And a foreign agent

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Mike Flynn is an innocent man. And a foreign agent

by Timothy P. Carney

May 18, 2020 09:45 AM
 
At an event just before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July 2016, retired Gen. Mike Flynn tore into Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a speech about the dangers of radical Islam.

“There’s an ongoing coup going on in Turkey right now. … There’s a coup,” Flynn told the crowd. He explained that Turkey’s government “began to move towards Islamism. This is Turkey under Erdogan, who is actually very close to President Obama.”

Flynn then clearly praised the military coup, telling the crowd that Turkey’s military leaders, unlike the Erdogan regime, wanted to be seen as a secular power that recognized its NATO duties — in contrast to Erdogan's regime. “That is worth clapping for,” he said as the crowd began to applaud.

Less than four months later, on Election Day, Flynn was sounding a very different note on Erdogan and his regime. “Our ally Turkey is in crisis and needs our support,” was the headline on Flynn’s op-ed at the Hill. In that piece, he attacked Obama for “keeping Erdoğan’s government at arm’s length — an unwise policy that threatens our long-standing alliance.”

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