Former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with Russia, doesn't know the Pledge of Allegiance, a video suggests
- Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor, was at a campaign event for Lin Wood on Sunday.
- Flynn began reciting the Pledge of Allegiance for the crowd but stopped after saying the wrong word.
- Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contact with Russia. Trump pardoned him.
It appears the former national security advisor Michael Flynn doesn't know all the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.
On Sunday, Flynn appeared at a campaign event for Lin Wood, a pro-Trump attorney running to become the chairman of the South Carolina GOP, at the Honkytonk Saloon in Ladson, South Carolina, The Post and Courier reported. Hundreds of supporters attended, including the Bikers for Trump group.
In a video of the event shared on Twitter, Flynn announced on stage that he would say the Pledge of Allegiance and told the audience to say it along with him.
"I want you to hear, not just listen - I want you to hear every single word of the Pledge of Allegiance," Flynn said. "That is our pledge to each other. That is our pledge to this country."
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America," Flynn began. He then started to say what sounded like "indiv-" before cutting himself off as the crowd continued.
After a moment, he picked back up with the crowd to finish it off: "Under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The Pledge of Allegiance is: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Flynn served as President Donald Trump's national security advisor in January and February 2017 before resigning over reports that he had lied about his contact with a Russian official. In December 2017, he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US at the time.
He later accused the Justice Department of entrapment and moved to withdraw his guilty plea. In November, Trump pardoned him. Flynn has become a prominent figure in the QAnon conspiracy theory, deepening his ties with promoters like Wood and Sidney Powell, Insider's Rachel E. Greenspan reported.