A traveling Christian nationalist roadshow received the Donald Trump stamp of approval this weekend when, during a two-day event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort, the former president suggested hiring the roadshow’s co-founder, his old buddy Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Flynn’s reinstatement in the White House would be controversial, even on the right. Flynn was instrumental in launching the Stop The Steal movement, but later ran afoul of some of his compatriots, putting him at odds with more centrist Republicans and a subset of QAnon believers. But a future Flynn White House gig would be red meat for the conspiracy crowd that flocks to events like ReAwaken America—a crowd even more embroiled in fringe hoaxes and religious fervor than Trump’s 2016 base.
Flynn has also publicly sworn an oath associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory and spoken at QAnon-aligned conferences, although he discredited QAnon in private texts with pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood.
Trumpworld has at times exercised caution in its connections to ReAwaken America. The tour has featured end-times rhetoric, open calls for Christian nationalism, and prophecies of death for Trump’s opponents. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have been ReAwaken speakers, as have two Hitler-hyping antisemites who have elsewhere claimed that Jewish people eat children and that Hitler was “warning us” about Jews. Those two antisemitic speakers were listed as attendees at the Doral event, but were removed from the lineup after an outcry.