'Kook heaven': Pro-Trump org descends into chaos as staff mysteriously resigns

President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is in charge of a MAGA non-profit staffed with Trump loyalists — but apparently they are secretly at each other’s throats.

“Since taking over the storied conservative group America’s Future in 2021, retired general Michael Flynn has turned it into a real rogue’s gallery,” The Bulwark’s Will Sommer wrote on Monday. “For one, Flynn, who briefly served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser in the first administration, put Lara Logan—the former CBS News reporter turned conspiracy theorist—on the nonprofit’s board. Flynn also launched an anti-child trafficking initiative within America’s Future called ‘Project Defend & Protect Our Children,’ which he stocked with fringe activists, including Pizzagate true believer Liz Crokin, who now serves as a Project board member.”

Yet this “kook heaven” proved to be “hardly paradise,” Sommer observed, as a rash of unexplained resignations began depleting the organization’s staff.

“The cause of these resignations remains unclear,” Sommer said. “But, as a whole, they strongly suggest that Flynn’s organization, a pillar of the conspiratorial right, may be in serious trouble. America’s Future didn’t respond to requests for comment. Neither did anyone who resigned.”

He added, “Rest assured, I’m working to get to the bottom of all this. Unfortunately, my skeptical approach to QAnon and other conspiracy theories appears to have alienated some of the key people involved in this story. When I asked Moore, who was tweeting over the weekend about how Barack Obama would soon be arrested for treason, why he had resigned, he declined to tell me.”

Sommer then quoted a statement by Ben Moore, “a lawyer on the “Project Defend” advisory board” who when resigning earlier this month resigned used “QAnon-style language as a ‘digital soldier.’”

“Will, you shit on so many of us for so long,” Moore said in his statement. “You want a story to try to destroy General Flynn.”

Another QAnon booster who is sticking by Flynn, Sommer pointed out, has tried to downplay the resignations, but has used language which raises more questions. Sommer described it as “drunk night between grown adults,” adding that “there’s no side. People are upset over personal shit. Drunk night between grown adults. This s——— has NOTHING to do with General Flynn or his organization.”

The details have been left “blank,” Sommer concluded.

Flynn has been criticized before for his cozyness with Trump, which has also seemed to personally benefit him financially. In March a former Justice Department prosecutor accused Flynn of committing theft by accepting a $1.25 million settlement after pleading guilty under oath to intentionally making false statements to the FBI in 2017.

"I really do not understand how you justify this as anything but theft," Andrew Weissmann told "The Illegal News" at the time. "To make this a legitimate settlement, there would have to be a good faith belief that he has a meritorious argument and that there might be some downside in litigating this."