Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming slammed Michael Flynn on Monday for comments he made during a QAnon event in Dallas, Texas over the weekend suggesting that a Myanmar-like coup should take place in the U.S. to replace president Joe Biden.
“No American should advocate or support the violent overthrow of the United States,” Cheney wrote in a tweet referring to Flynn, who served as national security adviser in the Trump administration.
Flynn, who was one of the recipients of a wave of last-minute pardons issued by Donald Trump on his way out of the White House, told a crowd of QAnon fanatics that a coup like the one that occurred in Myanmar should happen in the U.S.
“I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here?” an audience member asked Flynn at the conference, dubbed “For God & Country Patriot Roundup,” which was captured in a video shared online.
The audience reacted to the question with cheers.
Once the crowd quieted, Flynn responded, “No reason. I mean, it should happen here.”
Myanmar’s military seized power and overtook the country’s democratically-elected government in February. Since the coup, Myanmar security forces have killed hundreds of individuals, and thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have been detained, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
Cheney’s rebuke of Flynn’s comments comes as the former House Republican Conference chair, who was ousted from the post earlier this month for repeatedly challenging Trump’s false claims of election fraud, works to form her own faction in the Republican Party — one that does not involve the former president.
Cheney has vowed to work to keep Trump out of the White House.
“I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” she said.
No American should advocate or support the violent overthrow of the United States. https://t.co/dpa20pLG4n
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 31, 2021
