Gen. Michael Flynn Asks Trump to Hold the Deep State Accountable in 2026
It’s been 13 months since voters reelected Donald Trump. To say they voted for change is an understatement.
Americans wanted, first and foremost, to preserve their country. The United States was on a path to full-blown collapse. The previous administration’s open-borders policies alone put in motion a litany of destructive changes that would’ve destroyed the country if they had continued for another four years. On that front, President Trump has delivered. The border is more secure than it’s been at any time in recent history, albeit there are grumblings about the rate of deportations.
But Trump voters wanted more than preservation. Americans wanted the people who put their nation on said disastrous trajectory, the people who subverted their will on multiple fronts, to answer for what they did. Americans voted for accountability.
But unlike the satisfactory job it’s done on border security, the Trump administration has not even come close to holding malicious Deep State actors accountable.
Flynn’s Appeal
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, a Trump supporter who briefly worked for the president during his first term — before the Deep State torpedoed his tenure as national security advisor — believes this wholeheartedly. On Monday, Flynn published a letter on social media addressed to Trump. “This message is sent on behalf of a very frustrated 79 million Americans who voted for you and millions more who refuse to be ignored,” he began. He then declared, “we are designating 2026 as THE YEAR OF ACCOUNTABILITY!”
“The country is at a breaking point,” Flynn added. He continued stitching together a summary of the poor condition of American society:
Our freedoms are being chipped away in plain sight. Our government has grown bloated, arrogant, and unaccountable. Public trust has not merely declined; it has been obliterated. Power has been stripped from citizens and hoarded by bureaucrats, agencies, and unelected elites. Those who call themselves leaders protect each other while the American people pay the price. Civic duty has vanished from classrooms, replaced by obedience and ideology. The family, once the backbone of this nation, has been systematically weakened and devalued. Enough is Enough!
Near the end of his message, Flynn asked Trump outright: “Will you stand with We The People or will you protect the system that failed us?” The succeeding sentences suggest that the one-time soldier, is worried, like so many disaffected supporters, that the answer may not be what he’d like to hear:
We will stand with you through thick and thin like we always have, but you must respect our wishes. If you don’t, as our founders warned, the deep state concentration of power in government will lead to greater corruption and eventual tyranny. And your legacy in history will be tarnished beyond repair.
So far, Trump has largely protected the system that has failed us. And there has been little to no accountability for those who tried to destroy the United States from within. The retired general knows all this.
The Epstein Affair
For Flynn, one of Trump’s most glaring failures concerns Jeffrey Epstein, the serial pedophile who likely trafficked minors to powerful, rich men across the world. Flynn has shown his frustration on this front via a slew of social media posts over the last few months. Among them is a Substack he published a week ago, in which he wrote:
This … has to cease by mass arrests of the upper crust sickos that did this stuff. Ok, I’ll buy that Epstein is dead (for now). But if a former president or presidents of any country or other “elites” are part of child rape and sexual abuse, I’m not someone you want as your enemy. There WILL NOT be two sets of rules in America. I don’t [care] who these people are. It isn’t about Epstein and democrats, it is about child sexual abuse by morally depraved psychopaths who think they rule the world.
That last sentence indicates that Flynn understands what the Epstein hubbub is really about. Epstein wasn’t just a disturbed, rich pedophile who got away with raping hundreds of minors. He was part of a social international circle that included “morally depraved psychopaths who think they rule the world.”
Epstein provides a glimpse into the lives of the global elite, into the rich and powerful who live outside the laws and values the rest of us abide by. He is a member of that malevolent, lawless international order that answers to no one. Epstein is about an elite international power structure that does what it wants, conceals its most repugnant acts, and treats the public like children. Some of this is hinted at in some of the files released within the last couple of months.
Even after his conviction, Epstein regularly communicated with power players who once occupied positions in academia, media, tech, and government — people like Larry Summers, Kathryn Ruemmler, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Michael Wolff, Bill Gates, and more. The fact that these people weren’t bothered by Epstein’s abhorrent activities suggests that the value system of the elite is very different from that of regular, non-sociopathic citizens who serve as the backbone of the very society the elites abuse.
DOJ Holding Back
Trump, for his part, has not only failed to support full Epstein transparency, but he outright opposed it. Some believe, and justifiably so, that Trump failed on Epstein because he’s protecting the elites, many of which he himself is tied to. Nevertheless, after months of resistance and gaslighting the public, the president eventually — albeit reluctantly — signed a law to make public all Justice Department files on Epstein. But the DOJ has still not fully complied. Some of the files it released were redacted in ways that violate the law. And there’s no telling what information the government illegally withheld.
In summary, except for his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, there’s been no accountability for anyone involved in perpetuating or covering up Epstein’s hideous activity.
More Accountability Failures
There has also been no accountability for those who created and pushed the Russia Collusion hoax, of which Trump was the prime target. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released some of the receipts. We know some of the swamp weasels involved — former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, former President Barack Obama, etc. — yet not a single conviction has resulted.
And there has been no accountability for those who carried out Operation January 6. Enough credible evidence has emerged to strongly suggest that the FBI was somehow involved, that J6 was likely an operation designed to crush the America First movement, and that the J6 Committee was nothing but a politicized hit squad dressed up as an investigatory unit.
And then there’s the rigged 2020 election. Trump knows it was rigged, as does at least half the country. Very credible experts have come forward with a range of information suggesting that the election was flawed on multiple fronts. There is a mountain of testimony, documentaries, and independent investigations conducted by very capable people showing how third parties went into swing states, took over the election apparatus, and rigged the outcome. Yet no one has been held accountable. Our elections remain vulnerable.
Ballooning Spending, Warmongering
As for perpetuating the system that has failed us, Trump has done just that on several critical fronts.
For starters, the Trump administration is as fiscally reckless as any other in recent memory. The president’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill alone will raise the deficit by at least $3 trillion. Continuing foreign aid and foreign meddling also pile on to the nation’s $38 trillion debt.
And speaking of foreign policy, an area where voters desperately wanted major change, the Trump administration is sticking to the neoconservative script. In the Middle East, Trump directed the military to bomb a foreign country that posed little to no danger to the homeland. Worse, he did it on behalf of a foreign nation. As we pointed out in a recent report, Trump’s decision to bomb Iran in June was the result of his believing Israeli intelligence about Iranian nuclear development over that of his own. Worse, just this week Trump announced he wouldn’t hesitate to bomb Iran again if he’s convinced Iran is trying to revive its nuclear program.
Bombing Iran was also a blatant act of war, which is the exclusive purview of Congress. But, like many presidents before him, Trump doesn’t see it that way. He thinks he’s a CEO and America is his private enterprise. And, as far as that goes, he thinks he can order the “war department” to do what he wants.
More Foreign Meddling
The president has also continued American meddling in the boondoggle in Eastern Europe. Selling weapons to Europe to give to Ukraine, continuing to provide intel to Ukraine, and leveling sanctions against Russia have only prolonged — and increased the death toll of — the war the president claims he wants to end. The war between two of the most corrupt nations in Europe is not our war. And it likely wouldn’t have happened if America hadn’t stuck its nose in the region a long time ago to begin with.
And then there’s Venezuela, where the Trump administration is openly working to bring about regime change, part of a long-standing U.S. foreign policy pattern regarding Latin America. Trump has even admitted that part of the reason he’s targeting Venezuela, one of multiple overtly corrupt nations in South America, is because they nationalized the oil industry and took over infrastructure that was built by American oil corporations. He’s doing this on behalf of Big Business.
How Will Trump Respond?
Flynn’s social media message, his letter to Trump, has been viewed more than 2 million times as of this writing. People have posted more than 10,000 responses to it. One commenter said it was important that Trump get this message. “I will ensure he sees it,” Flynn responded.
If Trump reads this message, how will he respond?
Based on public comments he’s made over the last few months, Trump is aware of all, if not most, of these grievances. One time he got so angry over the Epstein issue that he called his voters “stupid people” and said he no longer wanted their support. To some degree, his wish has been granted.
Trump Sending Mixed Signals
Nevertheless, even after a decade in the spotlight, the president remains somewhat of an enigma. His actions on the border, his justified attacks on the green scam and push for a resurgence in reliable energy production, his railing against the United Nations and other actions against supranational organizations — all of these suggest a desire to preserve America. Those actions certainly don’t serve the globalist agenda.
But the other items we mentioned — the foreign meddling, the reckless spending, the refusal to exert pressure to bring to justice Deep State actors who worked against the American people — none of these helps the case of American restoration.
Flynn means well in his appeal. It’s not unreasonable. Obviously, the president wields a lot of power. And in all fairness, Flynn is not putting the fate of the country entirely on the president. Nevertheless, his message hints at why the system keeps failing us.
America wasn’t built to be run by one man, or even by an oligarchy, nor by a network of corporate, nonprofit, and government elites. The Founders created a representative government system designed to be controlled by the people for the good of the people. But for that system to work, the people must exercise their rightful position as the ultimate stewards of the United States government. And to be good stewards of this great inheritance called America, its citizens need to know what is truly happening and to get behind the wheel and steer the ship back on course.
Congress, Local Involvement the Keys
Instead of putting our hopes in Trump in 2026, a better approach is for the American people to step behind the wheel. In simple terms, that means education and organization. It works. A small example is what Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) were able to accomplish with the Epstein files. Sure, the people have yet to get everything they are owed, but the government was forced to do something it didn’t want to do. And as pressure continues, more and more revelations will bubble to the surface. The takeaway from the Epstein files saga was that Congress and the president can be brought to heel.
We must, as a people, be familiar with the constitutional principles that our lawmakers need to adhere to. And we must hold those lawmakers — in the federal and state governments — accountable to the Constitution.
The Constitution is the key. It is the antidote to national deterioration. There are a lot of people with ideas about how to restore this nation. And some of them are good, no doubt. But there’s also a whirlwind of noise, a lot of finger-pointing, a lot of drama. So instead of getting caught up in a spaghetti junction of tangents, we could accomplish a lot more by simply looking to the Constitution as the roadmap to national restoration. Americans are the most fortunate of any citizens because they have a governing blueprint that is already proven.