This is not my job. I'm a basketball player. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a politician.

Like, some of the words I use, I have to go over it like three, four times so I can pronounce it better.

Because I'm like, this is my second language and I don't notice. I want to school for one year. College, that's it.

Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host, Chris Ace.

So there were a lot of weird things that happened in 2016 in the election, but for my money.

The single weirdest happened on election day. It was an op-ed that was published on election day in the Hill,

which is a, you know, sort of political insider publication Washington, DC. And it was written by Michael Flynn.

Now, Michael Flynn was the chief national security adviser to the campaign of Donald Trump.

And he was publishing an op-ed on election day. And you would think if you're working on a campaign, your election day op-ed would be the closing message.

So you might imagine op-ed why Donald Trump will make America safe again.

Right? That would be like the kind of thing you do. Campaigns do this all the time. They have surrogates or they have campaign people.

They've sent out op-eds. They try to place them. Here's election day. It's the last chance to make your pitch to the American people.

What you're going to do? What is Donald Trump going to do for the American people? As you head to the polls, that was not what Michael Flynn chose to write in the Hill on election day.

No, no. He wrote an op-ed that's titled our ally, Turkey is in crisis and needs our support.

It is a long, slightly deranged, screwed against a fairly obscure Turkish cleric named Fatula Gulen.

In the course of the op-ed, Michael Flynn essentially intimates that he is a secret Islamic radical and terrorist supporter that he may be the next Ayatollah Khomeini,

that it's insane that he has been granted Haven in Pennsylvania. And he points out that this guy, this cleric, lives in the United States in the Polkanoes in Pennsylvania.

And Michael Flynn wants you to know this is a terrible mistake that the US should not be providing what he calls safe haven to this crypto radical Islamic terrorist.

This is how the op-ed ends. The forces of radical Islam derive their ideology from radical clerics like Gulen who is running a scam.

We should not provide him safe haven. In this crisis is imperative we remember who our real friends are.

What the fuck? Why is Michael Flynn on election day writing this op-ed? It's utterly bizarre.

Well, I'll give you the answer to that question. It's now attached as an editor's note to the op-ed which is still up on the Hill.

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