Robert Emmett Murphy, Jr.

  Michael Flynn, a retired Three-Star General, has been in trouble constantly since 2014, though until 2017, one could easily mistake him for a man ascending, not descending.   Very likely a tactical genius, when he moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency, he was criticized for not understanding the difference between tactics and strategy, condemned for his poor management skills, and increasingly under scrutiny for his Russian contacts (which, at least initially, had been encouraged by the Department of Defense). His contract with DIA was not renewed in 2014, a polite form of firing him; since then, he increasing went down one rabbit-hole after another, embracing radicalism, committing felonies, promoting Conspiracy Masturbation, and since at least 2020, trying to take a leadership rule in the delusional and dangerous QAnon movement.   His latest scandal concerns his statements at a QAnon convention, which was videotaped:   “I’m a simple Marine. I want ...