‘This case is not a tossup’: Judge throws out lawsuit Michael Flynn’s family members brought against CNN over ‘QAnon followers’ report

Michael Flynn and family's disputed July 4, 2020 video

This is a screenshot of a video of Michael Flynn and family from July 4, 2020, which appeared in a CNN segment describing it as a QAnon oath.

The brother and sister-in-law of former Trump national security adviser and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn lost out in their attempt to sue CNN over a 2021 segment on QAnon, a report that showed a video of several Flynn family members saying the “Where we go one, we go all” slogan known to be associated with the conspiracy theory and its adherents.

Jack and Leslie Flynn’s argument that the CNN segment “falsely painted them as ‘QAnon followers”” did not fare well before U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, who dismissed the lawsuit Wednesday, saying, “This case is not a tossup.” Much of the opinion pointed out that QAnon movement is an “amorphous, undefined concept,” such that calling someone a “QAnon follower,” which the judge said CNN didn’t explicitly do here, falls into the realm on non-actionable opinion, like calling someone a fascist.

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