OT, but crazy Mike Flynn is up to his old tricks.
Michael Flynn, a retired Army general who once served as former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, is reaching out to Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib and the Muslim community in metro Detroit to form a broad conservative coalition.
Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with Russian officials and was later pardoned by Trump, first met with Ghalib last month at Grace Christian Church in Sterling Heights, an evangelical house of worship that was hosting an event called “A Celebration of America’s Freedom and Future.” Ghalib said Flynn asked to meet him during his visit to metro Detroit.
Last week, Flynn and Ghalib met again at Azal Hall in Hamtramck. About 35 attended the Sept. 6 meeting that included some Michigan GOP leaders along with Muslim community and faith leaders, mostly of Yemeni descent from Hamtramck and Dearborn. The two-hour meeting included talks by Ghalib, Flynn, and a question and answer session, according to Ghalib and a video he posted of the event. Flynn spoke often about social issues, expressing concern about what he called pornography, critical race theory, hormone blockers, and transgenderism being taught to children in schools. Flynn also attacked migrant policies at the southern border and Ghalib said he opposed illegal immigration.
“They’re going to teach them more pornography, force critical race theory,” Flynn alleged about schools and educators.
Bernadette Smith, ethnic vice chair with the Michigan GOP, spoke at the meeting, calling it historic.
Strange bedfellow, especially in light of this:
TRUMP: “There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down — as those buildings came down. And that tells you something. It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “As I said, the police have said it didn’t happen.”
— Exchange on ABC’s “This Week,” Nov. 22, 2015
