{"id":1675,"date":"2023-05-28T04:56:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T04:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2023-05-28T05:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T05:20:35","slug":"trump-tells-former-adviser-michael-flynn-were-going-to-bring-you-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/trump-tells-former-adviser-michael-flynn-were-going-to-bring-you-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells former adviser Michael Flynn: \u2018We\u2019re going to bring you back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0called into an event hosted by his former national security adviser\u00a0Michael Flynn\u00a0over the weekend, telling his ex-adviser, \u201cWe\u2019re going to bring you back.\u201d
After scrubbing a rally in Iowa on Saturday night\u00a0because of bad weather, Trump spoke via telephone at an event for Flynn\u2019s \u201cReAwaken America Tour\u201d held at the former president\u2019s Miami resort. The retired lieutenant general, a top figure in the far-right movement, has been one of the leading proponents of Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
During the call, which was captured on a video of the event posted online, Flynn is seen holding a cellphone up to a microphone as Trump, on the line, says to Flynn, \u201cYou just have to stay healthy because we\u2019re bringing you back. We\u2019re going to bring you back.\u201d
It wasn\u2019t clear from Trump\u2019s remarks if he was specifically talking about bringing Flynn into his administration should he win the presidency in 2024 and, if so, for what role.


\u201cWe\u2019re proud of you, general,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI knew it from day one \u2014 you\u2019re really somebody very special.\u201d
Trump\u2019s campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung did not respond to questions about Trump\u2019s remarks and instead sent a statement that said: \u201cPresident Trump is running to drain the swamp and bring prosperity back to America. That\u2019s why he\u2019s dominating in the polls \u2014 both in the primary and general elections\u2014 and Americans are rallying around his campaign.\u201d
Flynn, who resigned from administration less than a month after Trump\u2019s inauguration in 2017, was charged later that year with lying to the FBI about conservations he had with the Russians on Trump\u2019s behalf. He twice pleaded guilty, but Trump\u00a0ultimately pardoned him\u00a0in the final weeks of his presidency.
Since then, Flynn has been a leader in trumpeting\u00a0Trump\u2019s lies of a stolen 2020 election, despite the fact that numerous federal and local officials, a long list of courts, top former campaign staffers and even Trump\u2019s own attorney general have all said there is no evidence of the fraud he alleges. Flynn suggested that Trump should seize voting machines and could order up the military in some states and rerun the election.
The former president has spoken warmly about Flynn over the years and has continued to align himself with Flynn at a time when\u00a0some in the Republican Party\u00a0see Trump\u2019s\u00a0alliance with controversial figures\u00a0and\u00a0focus on the past electionas political liabilities\u00a0in the general election next year.
Flynn, as part of his efforts to try to overturn Trump\u2019s loss in the 2020 presidential election, suggested Trump should seize voting machines and could order up the military in some states and rerun the election.
Flynn\u00a0launched the ReAwaken America tour in 2021,\u00a0a few months after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol failed to overturn the results of the election. It has been continuing ever since, with stops every month or two in a different city. Many of Trump\u2019s close allies and family members such as his son, Eric Trump, have appeared at the event. Trump himself has been known to call in.
A joint investigation by The Associated Press and the PBS series \u201cFrontline\u201d\u00a0found that the ReAwaken tour serves as a traveling roadshow and recruiting tool for an ascendant Christian nationalist movement that\u2019s wrapped itself in God, patriotism and politics and has grown in power and influence inside the Republican Party.. Flynn endorsed nearly 100 candidates ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, and continues to urge supporters to get involved in politics \u2013- especially at the local level \u2013- ahead of the 2024 elections.
Trump and Flynn have maintained their ties to each other, periodically snapping photographs together. One of Flynn\u2019s groups held an event at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago in December, and the two men remain close, Flynn\u2019s brother, Joseph Flynn, told the AP in March.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}