9/16/2022

QANON: “After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows.

On Tuesday [September 13, 2022], using his Truth Social platform, the Republican former president reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel pin overlaid with the words ‘The Storm is Coming.’ In QAnon lore, the ‘storm’ refers to Trump’s final victory, when supposedly he will regain power and his opponents will be tried, and potentially executed, on live television…

He’s published dozens of recent Q-related posts, in contrast to 2020, when he claimed that while he didn’t know much about QAnon, he couldn’t disprove its conspiracy theory…

Earlier this month, Trump chose a QAnon song to close out a rally in Pennsylvania. The same song appears in one of his recent campaign videos and is titled ‘WWG1WGA,’ an acronym used as a rallying cry for Q adherents that stands for ‘Where we go one, we go all.'”

-David Klepper and Ali Swenson, “Trump openly embraces, amplifies QAnon conspiracy theories,” apnews.com, September 16, 2022