Epstein’s Pretzel: Mike Flynn’s Tough Spot
Pizzagate is being revived, once again, to protect the people involved in Epstein’s child trafficking ring.
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On 11/3/16, a virulently antisemitic groyper named Jared Wyand invented what came to be known as Pizzagate by tweeting a list of made up “keywords” with instructions to search for them in John Podesta’s emails which had been hacked by Russian military intelligence and released on Wikileaks on the same day as the Access Hollywood video.
According to Wyand, by replacing the words in Podesta’s emails with a second meaning, a dark, traumatic tale of Clinton child trafficking networks could be constructed: “We are uncovering a child sex ring.”
Note this was “PodestaEmails28”—just a small part of a Russian-backed, coordinated psychological operation to project Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes on to Hillary Clinton.
One of the words on Wyand’s list was “pizza” which was given the “gate” suffix—giving the initial impression that it was an actual scandal, instead of just fan fiction.
Infamously, about a month later, on 12/5/16, a gunman burst into Comet Pizza in Washington DC, and tried to find the children Hillary had hidden in the “basement”—which was actually a pantry. There was no basement. Last year, the gunman, Edgar Maddison Welch, after serving four years in prison, was killed at a traffic stop in North Carolina.
The reason Welch went to that location was a series of videos by another neo-Nazi troll named Jack Posobiec—who recently became an official Pentagon “reporter” after Pete Hegseth got rid of the press corps. Just after the shooting, Ret. Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn’s son Mike Jr. was kicked off the Trump transition team after he quote-tweeted Posobiec concerning “the many ‘coincidences’” about Pizzagate that must be investigated.
On Saturday, 2/15/26, nearly a decade later, Mike Flynn posted the exact same “cheat sheet” to his 2.1 million followers, signaling in the clearest possible terms that he wants them to investigate Epstein as part of Pizzagate fiction, instead of in objective reality. This is a deliberate effort to obfuscate the truth and divert attention from Flynn, his friends—like Steve Bannon—and Donald Trump.
[Full disclosure: Mike Flynn is suing me for defamation in retaliation for my reporting. He failed to show up in court in October. Another trial is scheduled for next month.]
Flynn is in a tough spot because of the Epstein files. While I have no evidence that Flynn and Epstein connected directly, there are numerous emails and texts where Flynn’s legal troubles—for lying about talking to the Russians during the 2016 transition—are being carefully monitored and discussed. Flynn was central to the plan to steal the 2016 election, and it was vital to Epstein that Flynn not flip on his co-conspirators.
As an example of how contorted Flynn’s situation is, he made an appearance on Saturday with the very same Pizzagate promoter, Jack Posobiec, on Epstein’s close friend Steve Bannon’s network, Real America’s Voice, to decry the lack of accountability for Epstein’s crimes.
“If nothing’s going to happen with Epstein why should we expect anything to happen with Russiagate?”
“Russiagate,” of course, is a mythological beast like Pizzagate, a classic case of DARVO—Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender—investigating the investigators instead of the criminals.
But a week after the election, Flynn admitted what he did.
“We have an army of digital soldiers. This was run like an insurgency. This was irregular warfare at its finest—in politics.”
The “digital soldiers” Flynn was referring to included people like Jack Posobiec, Jared Wyand, and Mike Jr. who were organized in MAGA3X, a political action committee funded by Peter Thiel, and organized by the president of Thiel Capital, white nationalist memetic warfare specialist Jeff Giesea. Flynn and his son promoted MAGA3X, and Jared Wyand, all through the election. They were central to MAGA3X—and to the worst political crime in American history, the theft of an election.
But Flynn had more at stake than just a job, he was planning a nuclear deal with Epstein’s good friend private equity investor Tom Barrack that would transfer America’s nuclear secrets to Saudi and Russia.
Flynn notably texted Tom Barrack during the inauguration that the plan was a “go.”
Barrack met with Epstein on a constant basis, including meetings with the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, throughout 2015 and 2016—and a “wild wild” week “with barrack and the boys in pb” (Palm Beach) a few weeks after the election. Barrack also met Epstein’s friend Peter Thiel in August 2016.
In Max Chafkin’s biography of Peter Thiel, he notes that Flynn and Thiel collaborated—via Thiel’s surveillance company Palantir—while Flynn was serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mike Flynn’s brother Charles, who hosted the call that delayed the National Guard on J6, is now a senior advisor at Palantir.
Palantir, of course, is now used extensively by both the military and DHS. Kristi Noem said Saturday that DHS is now in charge of making sure the “right people” vote to elect the “right leaders” during the midterms.
They are doing it all over again. More to come on their plans.
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