During the evening of July 4, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn shared a video of himself leading five other people in a recitation of the oath of office traditionally given to federal elected officeholders, ending the oath with a slogan associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Flynn, the former national security adviser for President Trump who recently won a major court victory when an appeals court ordered a judge to grant the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss its case against him, posted the Independence Day video of himself on Twitter reading the oath of office off of a cellphone as three women and two men, some of whom were members of his family, repeated after him in front of a bonfire. The oath, which is taken by members of the House and Senate, includes the promise that one “will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
