Michael Flynn's Dream Theocracy: One Religion Under God In The U.S.

Pardoned convicted felon Michael Flynn ranted at the Christian nationalist Reawaken America forum that to fix America we need to have only one religion: his version of Christianity.

CNN's Jim Acosta and Carl Bernstein were horrified by his words and couldn't believe he was Trump's first national security advisor.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN: Former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who is also facing a January 6th subpoena. It was alleged at one point that he was talking about martial law, of all things, with Donald Trump to try to overturn this election. But these are some other comments that Flynn was making about religion over the weekend.

Let's take a look and talk about it.

MICHAEL FLYNN: We are going to have one nation under God, which we must. We have to have one religion, one nation under God, and one religion under God.
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ACOSTA: Carl, and to think this is Donald Trump's first National Security Advisor, it's just shameful.

CARL BERNSTEIN: It's not a question of shameful. It's a question of let's look at the kind of people who came into Donald Trump's orbit and became the most influential around him.

Let's look at Rudy Giuliani. Let's look at Mike Flynn. Let's look at these people who are saying out loud things that have never been said by an aide or close associates of the President of the United States.

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