Michael Flynn has claimed Covid was invented by George Soros, Bill Gates and others in order to defeat Donald Trump.
The former three star general and adviser to the ex-president ranted about the pandemic during an appearance on the far right-wing Infowars website.
Mr Flynn has become a leading figure in the QAnon conspiracy theory movement, and even suggested that the US military consider a Myanmar-style coup.
He told Infowars that the World Health Organization, the United Nations and other groups “see themselves as ‘this is how we can rule the world, this is how we can control societies, this is how we can control humanity.’
“So let’s introduce something called Covid, and they did it, and they did it for a couple of reasons, one of the big reasons was to steal an election,” he said.