{"id":43442,"date":"2022-06-29T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/stephen-colbert-mocked-michael-flynn-for-repeatedly-pleading-the-5th-before-the-january-6-panel-with-a-5th-laden-rendition-of-the-national-anthem"},"modified":"2022-06-29T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:50:45","slug":"stephen-colbert-mocked-michael-flynn-for-repeatedly-pleading-the-5th-before-the-january-6-panel-with-a-5th-laden-rendition-of-the-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/stephen-colbert-mocked-michael-flynn-for-repeatedly-pleading-the-5th-before-the-january-6-panel-with-a-5th-laden-rendition-of-the-national-anthem","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert mocked Michael Flynn for repeatedly pleading the 5th before the January 6 panel with a &#8216;5th&#8217;-laden rendition of the national anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late-night show host Stephen Colbert mocked Michael Flynn for repeatedly pleading the Fifth before the January 6 committee. Gilbert Carrasquillo\/GC Images; Dustin Franz\/Getty Images Stephen Colbert mocked Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn for pleading the Fifth before the January 6 panel. Flynn dodged several of the panel&#8217;s questions concerning his views about the Capitol riot. &#8220;How does Michael Flynn sing the national anthem?&#8221; Colbert asked before breaking into song. Late-night show host Stephen Colbert took a jab at former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn during his opening monologue on Tuesday. In a clip played during the January 6 panel&#8217;s hearing on Tuesday, Flynn was seen taking a long pause before answering questions from Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. Flynn pleaded the Fifth in response to several questions, including whether he felt that the violence during the Capitol riot was justified and if he believed in the peaceful transfer of power in America. Colbert mocked Flynn for his responses, stating: &#8220;You<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth Fifth, and the home of the Fifth!&#8221; sang Colbert during Tuesday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,19,42],"class_list":["post-43442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-capitol","tag-entertainment","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}