Disgraced Trump advisor Michael Flynn gave a number of QAnon followers a slap of reality on a far-right podcast released Saturday, telling listeners that the QAnon’s long-anticipated “Plan” is nothing but “nonsense,” DeadState reports.
Asked by host Doug Billings on his The Right Side podcast if Donald Trump ever signed off on enacting the Insurrection Act–a key aspect of the QAnon conspiracy theory that would authorize the military to arrest tens of thousands of people–Flynn responded bluntly, “No. Nonsense.”
Billings then asked if the military is currently running the country, a new part of the theory now that President Joe Biden has been inaugurated. “More nonsense,” Flynn said. “There’s no ‘Plan’.” The Plan is a talking point and mantra of QAnon adherent: “Trust the Plan,” they say.
“There’s so many people out there [who keep asking], ‘Is the plan happening?’” Flynn continued. “We have what we have, and we have to accept the situation as it is.”
It’s unclear whether this disavowment of QAnon’s central tenets will weaken the grip of the conspiracy theory on its adherents, or it QAnon followers will simply brand Flynn as a defector who has been compromised by the so-called Deep State.