Michael Flynn, a national security advisor under then-President Donald Trump, ominously predicted election-related violence in a recent interview and urged Trump to declare victory before the full results of the presidential election are known.
Republicans in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have blocked efforts to allow for the counting of mail-in ballots before Election Day. As a result, election officials in those states don’t expect the final results to be available quickly.
Nonetheless, during an appearance on the right-wing podcast American Truth Project earlier this month, Flynn said that if the victor of the election isn’t known by Nov. 6, the day following Election Day, there could be “violence.”
“I actually think that’ll be a really bad spot, and I feel like people are going to go to those locations where there’s counting, and there could actually be violence, because people are so upset after 2020, and what is very clear, in …