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.â€
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 ErdoÄŸan’s government at arm’s length — an unwise policy that threatens our long-standing alliance.â€
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