QANON/RALLY/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Former President Donald J. Trump appeared to more fully embrace QAnon on Saturday [September 17, 2022], playing a song at a political rally in Ohio that prompted attendees to respond with a salute in reference to the cultlike conspiracy theory’s theme song… Aides to Mr. Trump said the song played at the rally […]
Category: QAnon
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 […]
7/12/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/QANON: “The Jan. 6 select committee plans to make its most complex case yet at its public hearing Tuesday [July 12, 2022]: that Donald Trump’s words and actions influenced extremists and brought them to the steps of the Capitol… The panel intends to highlight how adherents to the antisemitic, fringe conspiracy theories of QAnon […]
11/4/2021
ENDORSEMENT/NAZI/QANON: “Kari Lake, the Arizona gubernatorial candidate recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has embraced fringe far-right figures in her campaign events, including publicly thanking a Nazi sympathizer for his support and appearing with figures linked to the QAnon conspiracy, a CNN KFile review of her appearances has found.” -Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, […]
10/11/2021
CIVIL UNREST/DOJ/QANON: “Former president Donald Trump praised the woman who was shot and killed during the January 6 riot at the Capitol as a ‘truly incredible person’ in a video message played at a memorial event on what would have been the 36-year-old’s birthday. Trump issued a message of support for Ashli Babbitt, an Air […]
8/19/2020
QANON: “Well I don’t know much about the [QAnon] movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate. But I don’t know much about the movement. I have heard that it is gaining in popularity… I’ve heard these are people that love our country… so I don’t know really anything about […]
8/19/2020
QANON: [Reporter: “Mr. President, at the crux of the [QAnon] theory is this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Does that sound like something you are behind or a believer in?”] “Well, I haven’t — I haven’t heard that. But is that supposed to be […]