Retired three-star Army Gen. Mike Flynn, who spent his entire career in military intelligence and briefly served as President Donald Trump’s first-term national security adviser, dropped new bombshells about former Vice President Mike Pence and former House Speaker Paul Ryan.

In an interview last week with conservative influencer Benny Johnson, Flynn claimed that Pence and Ryan actively plotted to undermine Trump and, upon his removal from office, were prepared to step in to govern in his place.

He also said that the country is undergoing a huge shift, politically, and that there is a battle between Trump’s brand of “America first” and an underlying far-left socialism push that began under former President Barack Obama, whom Flynn served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for nearly three years.

“You’re saying Paul Ryan and Mike Pence at least were in on this?” Johnson said to being the segment.

Flynn responded:

Oh yeah, there’s no doubt about it. Paul Ryan and Mike Pence wanted Trump out during the very famous, prior to the election in 2016, the “pu**y tapes.” Okay, I’ll just say it like that, sorry. But those infamous tapes came out. I know at that time that there were discussions between Ryan, Reince Priebus, and Mike Pence about, well, if Trump steps down, then we’re gonna have a plan because they actually wanted… they were hopeful because that tape didn’t come out through Democrat operatives. So there was a plan for, you know, hopefully Trump’s going to step down and go, “screw this, you guys can have it.” Those guys were ready to step right in.

So, this is 2016. So all the people out there that think, you know, all these guys are great because they’re Republicans? Sorry, they’re not. This is where the “Uniparty” steps in and the Uniparty is one of these big problems that we face in this country because they don’t want to accept that we are in the midst of a revolution and a Marxist takeover. And Barack Obama… I mean, there’s no reason in the world why Barack Obama should have ever won the first time around, but he did. Because there was a push by a lot of people because they knew this was the opportunity that they had to start this turnover of our country, okay? Eight years of Barack, eight years of Hillary, we’d be done.

So now, here’s where we are at today on your show, you know, here in America, with this, you know, bill that’s about to happen, and Trump has got a lot of authority, right? A lot of leadership authority that he’s been given by the judgment of the American people, by the majority of the American people, the way our country is supposed to be run. And in that judgment, he’s going to have to make a decision. This is kind of where I keep saying, “enough is enough.”

He’s going to have to make a decision about how and who to hold accountable. And he’s going to have to turn… I want people to remember that the chief law enforcement officer in the country is not the Attorney General, it’s not the Attorney General. The chief law enforcement in the country is the President of the United States. We always say, you know, he’s the President, and he’s the Commander in Chief. He’s also the chief law enforcement officer in the country. He’s the only one with pardon authority at that level, right?

And he can declare things based on national security and national emergency issues alone. So he can decide which direction the country goes, and he does it because the majority of the judgment of the American people were imbued into his ability to be able to do that. That’s where we are.