Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn says he didn't intend to share the post. | AP Flynn retweets anti-Semitic remark

Less than a week after giving an impassioned speech at the Republican National Convention, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is catching heat for sharing with his Twitter followers — as Donald Trump has in the past — an anti-Semitic message.

Flynn was responding Sunday to an assertion by Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, on CNN that Russia was behind the hack and release of tens of thousands of internal Democratic National Committee emails last week.


“The corrupt Democratic machine will do and say anything to get #NeverHillary into power. This is a new low,” he tweeted, sharing a link to a tweet from a user named Saint Bibiana (@30PiecesofAG_) who wrote “>Cnn implicated. ‘The USSR is to blame!’ … Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.”

That user’s tweet linked to a post from CNN Politics sharing the clip of Mook’s remarks.

Flynn issued an apology a few hours later, saying “the earlier retweet was a mistake” and that he meant to tweet only the original post from CNN Politics. The tweet has since been deleted.

Flynn gave a speech on the first night of the Republican convention in which he insisted that Trump would return America to its position as a global power. He was also reportedly being vetted for Trump's No. 2 spot before the nominee went with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.