Michael Flynn

Described as

U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor (born 1958)

Other names

Michael Thomas Flynn, Mike Flynn, Michael T. Flynn

Born

December 24, 1958

Born in

Middletown · 1 reference

Name at birth

Michael Thomas Flynn

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

army officer; politician; businessperson · 1 reference; military officer · 1 reference

Positions held

Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (2012–2014); United States National Security Advisor (2017) · 1 reference; chairperson (2021–) · 2 references; founder (2014–) · 1 reference; board member (2014–) · 1 reference

Political party

Democratic Party

Education

University of Rhode Island (1981); United States Army Command and General Staff College; Golden Gate University · 1 reference; Naval War College; Middletown High School · 1 reference; School of Advanced Military Studies

Awards

Bronze Star Medal; Legionnaire of Legion of Merit; honorary doctorate (2014–2022) · 1 reference

Children

Michael G. Flynn

Siblings

Mary Flynn O'Neill; Charles A. Flynn; Joseph Flynn; Barbara Redgate

Military branch

United States Army (1981–2014)

Military rank

lieutenant general; lieutenant · 1 reference

Website

https://www.generalflynn.com/

Wikipedias with a page

39

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Michael Thomas Flynn (born 24 December 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 24th U.S. national security advisor for the first 22 days of the first Trump administration. He resigned in light of reports that he had lied regarding conversations with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. Flynn's military career included a key role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, and he was given numerous combat arms, conventional, and special operations senior intelligence assignments. He became the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in July 2012 until his forced retirement from the military in August 2014. During his tenure he gave a lecture on leadership at the Moscow headquarters of the Russian military intelligence directorate GRU, the first American official to be admitted entry to the headquarters.
After leaving the military, in October 2014 he established Flynn Intel Group, which provided intelligence services for businesses and governments, including in Turkey. In December 2015, Flynn was paid $45,000 to deliver a Moscow speech at the ten-year anniversary celebration of RT, a state-controlled Russian international television network, where he sat next to Russian president Vladimir Putin at his banquet table.
In February 2016, Flynn became a national security advisor to Trump for his 2016 presidential campaign. In March 2017, Flynn retroactively registered as a foreign agent, acknowledging that in 2016 he had conducted paid lobbying work that may have benefited Turkey's government. On 22 January 2017, Flynn was sworn in as the National Security Advisor. On 13 February 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 Kislyak. Flynn's tenure as the National Security Advisor is the shortest in the history of the position.
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 about the Kislyak communications, and agreed to cooperate with the Special Counsel's investigation. In June 2019, Flynn dismissed his attorneys and retained Sidney Powell, who on the same day wrote to attorney general Bill Barr seeking his assistance in exonerating Flynn. Powell had discussed the case on Fox News and spoken to President Trump about it on several occasions. In January 2020, two weeks before his scheduled sentencing, Flynn moved to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming government vindictiveness and breach of the plea agreement. At Barr's direction, the Justice Department filed a court motion to drop all charges against Flynn on 7 May 2020. Presiding federal judge Emmet Sullivan ruled the matter to be placed on hold to solicit amicus curiae briefs from third parties. Powell then asked the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to compel Sullivan to drop the case, but her request was denied. On 25 November 2020, Flynn was issued a presidential pardon by Trump. On 8 December 2020, Judge Sullivan dismissed the criminal case against Flynn, while stating that he likely would have denied the Justice Department motion to drop the case.
On 4 July 2020, Flynn tweeted a video of himself leading others repeating a pledge commonly associated with QAnon, and as Trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in which he was defeated, Flynn shared a statement calling on Trump to suspend the Constitution and hold a new election under military authority. Flynn later met with Trump and their attorney Powell in the Oval Office to discuss the president's options. Trump denied reports that Flynn's martial law idea had been discussed. Flynn has since become a prominent leader in the Christian nationalist movement, organizing and recruiting for what he characterizes as a spiritual and political war.

Born, in its opening lines

December 24, 1958

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