I bet Flynn was directed to lie just to expose this.
If no one fell for it, we'd never know what they were trying to pull.
It's kinda of like the Roy Moore Alabama Election thing.
Whatever happened to the Yearbook Lady?
Y'know… Proto-Ford.
Who's now being paraded around by the likes of Sports Illustrated.
Makes way more sense as a counter trap.
Didn't they say that Flynn was grinning the whole time?
How stupid are these people to think "I can't believe it's THIS easy!", as if Flynn has no fucking clue how intel works.