Daily Beast: “Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been on a relentless media tour since his pardon last year, sitting for interviews with even the most obscure right-wing media outlets to promote the MAGA agenda. But on Tuesday, Flynn appeared on a little-known YouTube channel called Truth Unveiled TV for a very different reason: rebutting the idea that he led a church congregation in a Satanic ritual borrowed from a nuclear doomsday cult. In a video entitled ‘Some Have Said That General Flynn Prayed to Satan in a Recent Prayer,’ host Paul Oebel gave Flynn a chance to rebut the growing right-wing controversy alleging he’s signed on with Lucifer. ‘I even saw a show the other day saying ‘Michael’s flipped on the side of the devil,’’ Oebel said. ‘Can you please explain what happened there?’ ‘All of these people that talk about turning to whatever…’ Flynn said. ‘People need to stop overthinking what everybody is saying.’ The bizarre YouTube interview marked Flynn’s latest attempt in a weeks-long campaign to convince his one-time fans in the QAnon conspiracy theory movement that he isn’t a Satanist.”

“Flynn’s trouble started on Sept. 17, when he led a congregation at Nebraska pastor Hank Kunneman’s Lord of Hosts Church in prayer. Flynn’s prayer included invocations to ‘sevenfold rays’ and ‘legions,’ two phrases that struck some of Flynn’s followers as strange. ‘We are your instrument of those sevenfold rays and all your archangels, all of them,’ Flynn said. As video of the prayer circulated in online conspiracy theorist groups, the references to ‘legions’ and ‘rays’ soon sparked speculation among Flynn’s right-wing supporters that their hero had been lured to the dark side. Always on the lookout for the Satanic influence they imagine lurks at the heart of the world, they claimed that Flynn had secretly been worshiping the devil.”