Michael T. Flynn is certainly making the rounds. Last weekend, while speaking at a QAnon-themed conference in Texas, the disgraced former U.S Army lieutenant general and pardoned Trump national security advisor promoted the idea of a Myanmar-style military coup in the United States.
Now, it appears Flynn will headline a “Mask-Free Freedom Fighting Reopen America Tour” here in Tampa.
The three-day “Reopen America Tour'' starts June 17, and takes place at The River at Tampa Bay Church, promising guests the chance to “Learn practical steps you can take to fight back to protect your American freedoms!”
According to the event page, the conference is a who’s who of conservative crackpots, including former Trump cronie and accused tax dodger Roger Stone, Mike “The Pillow Guy” Lindell, anti-vaxx filmmaker Del Bigtree, and pizzagate conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel.
The event will also highlight plenty of far-right religious figures, like televangelist Trump pastor Mark Burns, who famously spread the conspiracy theory that antifa was responsible for the Jan. 6 Insurrection, and “prophetess” Amanda Grace, who just recently claimed Donald Trump will somehow emerge victorious from the 2020 presidential election because a German-named horse won the Preakness Stakes.
Of course, the event is very on brand for The River at Tampa Bay Church, which is run by local conspiracy theorist and coronavirus-truther Rodney Howard-Browne.
You may remember Howard Browne as the local evangelical pastor who peddles ideas like the Vegas shooting of 2017 that killed 58 people being a false flag operation, saying chemtrails and weather manipulation are real, and the people that rule the planet are Satanists who perform human sacrifices and drink blood. But Howard-Browne is arguably best known for getting arrested after ignoring local COVID-19 mandates, only to later have the charges dropped.
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