Thank you. Two comments:
1. The cited article is dated Feb 2013. The F-35 was "sold" many years before that. How many "buy" decisions have been made since Flynn's claims? Did LM ever make during the early days of the program the claims Flynn made in 2013? I tend to think not.
2. "Kinematic performance better than or equal to Typhoon or F-18" is not the same thing as calling the F-35 an air superiority fighter. Indeed, I see Flynn's claims being made to COUNTER the oft repeated accusations that the F-35's kinematic performance is "abysmal". And it seems to me that the article goes to good lengths to describe the specifics of Flynn's claims compared to other Western fighters. And further, while his claims are controversial, none of Flynn's claims were shown to be false, as many here are suggesting.