There’s Only ONE MAN They’ve Tried to Destroy As Much As Donald Trump…

By Brian Cates

Since I first began covering the SpyGate/RussiaGate scandal in early 2017 as a citizen journalist on Twitter, I became intimately familiar with the trials and travails of President Donald J. Trump’s first National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn.

The depth of fear the Deep State harbored for General Flynn and the extraordinary measures the SpyGate plotters took to swiftly remove him from the first Trump administration is a story of intrigue and suspense that is sure to captivate any viewer.

From the time he left his position as Trump’s NSA until he was finally pardoned by President Trump in November 2020, I covered the unfolding events as a journalist, first on my own Twitter account and then as a columnist for The Epoch Times, Uncover DC and X22 Report.

How deeply worried was the outgoing Barack Obama administration about Flynn? So much so that a special meeting was convened inside the White House on January 5, 2017, to discuss possible strategies to thwart/sandbag/sabotage the incoming Trump administration.

Very helpfully, notes were taken during this key meeting by FBI official Bill Priestap, who wrote down that it was none other than then-Vice President Joe Biden who suggested trying to use the Logan Act as a means of starting an investigation against Flynn, with the goal of getting him either fired or prosecuted or both.

It should be remembered that this January 5, 2017 White House meeting of the minds between Obama, Biden, FBI Director James Comey, NSA Susan Rice, and several others was not being held in a vacuum.

How We Got To The Logan Act Farce

Donald Trump had just shocked them all by unexpectedly winning the 2016 election, despite the fact that for months, Fake News stories leaked from intelligence officials and political operative firms like Fusion GPS had painted Trump as a Russian asset, a stooge of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Those fake news stories had come straight from the Hillary Clinton campaign itself, which had approved a dirty tricks operation against Trump as a means of distracting the voting public from Clinton’s very real email server scandal.

Of course, once she lost the election to Trump, and people were casting about for an ‘explanation’ as to how the boorish and abrasive outsider Trump could possibly have beaten the Deep State’s hand-picked successor to Obama, the same fake narrative that Clinton had been selling for months was still very much viable and ready to be called upon:

That Donald Trump had only appeared to have ‘won’ the election because massive fraud took place involving Russia; that is, Russia had somehow ‘helped’ Trump cheat his way to a fake ‘win’ in the Electoral College.

On top of needing an ‘explanation’ as to how Trump could have ‘cheated’ his way to victory over Clinton, the Obama administration was also heavily enmeshed in another fake narrative involving Russia at the time of this key January 5 meeting.

This other fake Russia narrative had to do with the aforementioned very real Clinton email scandal. Someone had taken a bunch of highly revealing and damaging emails from the Democratic National Committee headquarters and leaked them to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in June and July of 2016.

From the very start, the narrative launched by the Deep State to explain how the DNC email leak happened was to blame Russian hackers…that is, Russian state actors.

Neither the FBI, the DOJ, nor any law enforcement agency or investigator was ever allowed to see the DNC email server that was ‘hacked.’ Instead, a third-party company called Crowdstrike was brought in to supposedly examine the server and write a report.

Crowdstrike claimed in that report to have ‘forensically’ proven that Russian hackers stole the DNC emails. James Comey’s FBI and Loretta Lynch’s DOJ took the Crowdstrike report as gospel and launched investigations looking for the ‘Russian hackers’ responsible for the email thefts.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama insisted that since the email hack has been ‘proven’ to have been carried out by Russian hackers, and this publishing of the highly damaging emails by WikiLeaks affected the 2016 US Presidential election contest between Clinton and Donald Trump…Russia had directly interfered in a US election.

To retaliate against Russia for this supposed interference in the 2016 election, Obama introduced sweeping new sanctions against Russia & Putin, on top of expelling 35 Russian diplomatic personnel from the United States.

Naturally, since the Russians hadn’t hacked anything, and Putin had nothing to do with how the DNC emails came to WikiLeaks – Assange has asserted many times that his source was not any Russian or Russian state actor – the Russians had a right to be upset about this fake narrative being launched and used to try to provoke them.

As the incoming Trump administration’s National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn was doing his job trying to calm the Russians down and get them to not overreact to being falsely accused of having interfered in the US election.

This is why Flynn called Sergey Kislyak, the then-Russian ambassador to the US, in December 2016 to try to calm things down.

Because all such calls are monitored, recorded, and transcribed, by January 5, 2017, Biden and others were aware of Flynn’s contacts with Kislyak and instantly grasped how they could try to use those contacts to sell the idea to the public that Flynn was engaged in some kind of nefarious activity, ‘calling the Russians in secret,’ interfering with the Obama White House’s foreign policy. “Violating the Logan Act.”

Sometime after this January 5 meeting in the White House, someone—it has still not been publicly disclosed who—leaked the classified transcript of Flynn’s phone calls with Kislyak to columnist David Ignatius of The Washington Post.

The double whammy of Buzzfeed News publishing the Fusion GPS ‘Steele Dossier’ on January 10, 2017, and the column written by David Ignatius of The Washington Post on January 12, 2017, kicked off a media firestorm.

In his column, Ignatius is seen very loudly ‘wondering’ if Flynn had violated the Logan Act by making these calls to the Russian ambassador.

Both of these Fake News developments were like throwing gas on a roaring fire; those already convinced Trump had ‘stolen’ the election from Hillary Clinton crowed loudly in vindication. It looked as if the Steele Dossier and the illegal leak to Ignatius had just ‘proven’ that Trump and at least one of his top advisors were in bed with the Russians.

The massive damage the RussiaGate hoax did to the country is incalculable. For all four years, he was in the White House in his first term, Trump labored under a cloud of both the RussiaGate hoax and the illegal leaks designed to destroy his Presidency.

Not until Special Counsel John Durham released his final report in May of 2023 was the entire travesty laid bare: how the country had been repeatedly lied to and strung along by a clever political dirty trick operation approved by Clinton herself and carried out by her political operatives at Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS.

The first very real victim of the SpyGate hoaxes launched by the Hillary Clinton campaign – aided and abetted by political partisans embedded within the federal agencies – was General Michael Flynn.

Flynn ended up being fired as Trump’s NSA, then was prosecuted for supposedly having lied to two FBI agents who dropped in for a ‘friendly interview’ at the White House on January 24, 2017.

I won’t recount all the twists and turns that happened over the next four years since that fateful interview because most of that is covered in this new film making its debut this week.

I’ll say this: many other people would have ‘taken the hint’ from the Deep State and quit by now. They’d have retreated and moved to some far away, obscure location by now.

Mike Flynn and his family didn’t quit. They didn’t run away. They faced everything the Deep State could throw at them, and they survived.

General Flynn and his family have been advancing instead of retreating. The Reawaken America Tour has played a key role in awakening the country to the dangers of the Deep State and the crimes it is involved in hiding from the public.

Now, it is time for the Flynn family to tell the public their full story.

They do that in this powerful new film.

Find a showing of the new film near you!

You can find the tour locations/ dates and purchase tickets at this link:

https://www.flynnmovie.com/showings

Thus far, only the showing on April 5 in Venice, Florida, is sold out.