Flynn under fire for fake news

But Flynn himself has used social media to promote a series of
outrageous conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, President Barack
Obama and their inner circles in recent months — pushing dubious
factoids at least 16 times since Aug. 9, according to a POLITICO review
of his Twitter posts. Flynn, who has 106,000 Twitter followers, has used
the platform to retweet accusations that Clinton is involved with child
sex trafficking and has "secretly waged war” on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that Obama is a “jihadi” who “laundered” money for Muslim terrorists.

Now some say Flynn’s fondness for spreading fake news casts doubt on
his fitness to serve as the White House’s national security adviser,
suggesting that he either can’t spot a blatant falsehood or is just
ideologically bent to believe the worst of his perceived enemies.

The flak began flying anew after Sunday’s shooting
at a Washington pizza restaurant that had been targeted by false,
internet-fed rumors accusing it of being the epicenter of a satanic
child-trafficking conspiracy involving Clinton and her allies. Flynn had
twice used Twitter to promote similar, only slightly less outrageous
hoaxes in the past month, including a claim that Clinton’s campaign
manager takes part in occult rituals in which bodily fluids are
consumed.

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