By
Dan Friedman

Michael Flynn wants a judge to allow him to travel to Atlanta to raise money at an event organized by a QAnon supporter.

Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor before he was forced to resign after reports that he’d misled officials about his private conversations with Russia’s ambassador. He pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to FBI agents about those conversations. While he awaits sentencing, Flynn is subject to travel restrictions and other conditions.

This week, Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, asked US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan to allow Flynn to travel freely in the United States, so that he can go to locations including Georgia, where he plans “to fundraise for his Legal Defense Fund.” That is an apparent reference to Flynn’s scheduled appearance at the upcoming “Digital Soldiers Conference” on September 14 in Atlanta. Tickets range from $49 to $2,500 and the majority of the proceeds will benefit Flynn’s defense fund, according to the event’s website, which notes the conference will offer “social media warriors” a chance to prepare for a “digital civil war” against “censorship and suppression.”

“I don’t give a #uck about the deep state,” Granville said. “If I could, I would shoot them in the head and throw them in shallow graves and let the dogs dig them up. But I can’t, because that’s illegal.”

The main sponsor and organizer of the event is Yippy, Inc., which markets a search engine it claims is free of the censorship it alleges other tech companies impose on conservatives. Yippy CEO Rich Granville is a vocal supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits that Trump is secretly battling a ring of powerful pedophiles that includes many prominent Democrats and is protected by the so-called deep state. Granville told Mother Jones he believes this theory is “good for America.”

The conference’s website features an American flag with the stars arranged to form a “Q.” Granville claimed that the flag is not an intentional QAnon reference.