Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is slated to participate in a campaign event Friday evening for a California congressional candidate who aims to unseat Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., in the 2018 midterm election.
Omar Navarro, a Republican, claims Flynn will endorse him at Friday’s event in La Quinta, Calif., and that the two have been corresponding since meeting last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“He’s endorsing me,” Navarro told ABC News.
Waters responded to the news by calling Navarro “desperate.”
“Desperate, unstable, and convicted criminal Omar Navarro stoops low in soliciting help from another indicted criminal in a campaign against #MaxineWaters – what a campaign!” Waters tweeted Friday.
Desperate, unstable, and convicted criminal Omar Navarro stoops low in soliciting help from another indicted criminal in a campaign against #MaxineWaters – what a campaign!
— Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) March 16, 2018
Navarro was previously on probation for a criminal conviction he received after installing an electronic tracking device to his wife’s car, the Daily Breeze reported in October.
Waters has been the target of President Trump’s insults in recent weeks. Just last weekend he said during a rally in Pennsylvania that the congresswoman, who was repeatedly called for his impeachment, has a “very low IQ individual.”
Flynn resigned under pressure from his role as national security adviser in February 2017 after it was revealed he provided misleading information to Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russian officials and pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about those contacts in December.
He is said to be cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, which is looking into whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign.
The event for Navarro will be the first public event Flynn has participated in since he left the White House and pleaded guilty.
