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In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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  • Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman offered to court-martial Michael Flynn after he called for a military coup against the US.
  • Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, last week said a Myanmar-style military coup "should happen here" in the US.
  • Vindman, a member of the US Army's legal arm, said the remarks were "seditious."
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Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman has offered to court-martial Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn after he appeared to call for a military coup in the United States.

"With these seditious remarks Comrade Flynn may have crossed the line for recall to active duty and court-martial," Vindman said on Twitter.

"As a JAG [Judge Advocate General] I'm qualified and also happy to prosecute this case."

Yevgeny is the twin brother of Alexander Vindman, a retired US Army colonel who came to prominence after testifying before Congress regarding the scandal over President Trump and his dealings with Ukraine.

He is part of the Judge Advocate General Corps, the legal arm of the United States Army which comprises serving officers.

Flynn, made the controversial comments on Sunday when he was speaking at the For God & Country Patriot Roundup conference in Dallas, where several prominent QAnon conspiracy theorists were in attendance.

He was asked by an audience member "why what happened in Myanmar can't happen here." Myanmar's military in February overthrew the country's elected government and imprisoned its leader.

"No reason, I mean, it should happen here. No reason. That's right," Flynn responded.

Flynn later backtracked and denied that he had called for a coup, and claimed the media was "manipulating" his words, but footage of him making the comments was posted on social media.

"I am no stranger to media manipulating my words and therefore let me repeat my response to a question asked at the conference: There is no reason it (a coup) should happen here (in America)," he wrote on Telegram, the Daily Mail reported.

Stephen Vladeck, a national security law expert at the University of Texas School of Law, said that Flynn was still subject to the US Army's Uniform Code of Military Conduct even though he had retired.

"Yes, Flynn's still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice as a retired Army officer," Vladeck wrote on Twitter.

"The constitutionality of jurisdiction over retirees for post-retirement offenses is something we're currently challenging in the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces & the D.C. Circuit."

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