Posted on 08/12/2020 8:28:57 PM PDT by RandFan
A campaign spokesperson for President Trump took aim at a GOP congressman on Wednesday after the lawmaker dismissed the QAnon conspiracy theory in a Twitter post.
Matt Wolking, deputy communications director for Trump's reelection campaign, called on Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) to publicly reject the credibility of the dossier authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, which allies of the president have argued was the basis for the Russia investigation lead by former special counsel Robert Mueller.
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz told members of Congress that the opposition research compiled by Steele did not prompt the investigation into the Trump campaign and its ties to Russia.
"When will @RepKinzinger condemn the Steele Dossier fabrications and conspiracy theories pushed by Democrats?" Wolking wrote, adding, "That actually WAS Russian propaganda."
His tweet came in response to a tweet earlier in the day from Kinzinger, who called the QAnon conspiracy a product of "Russian propaganda or a basement dweller" following the victory of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon supporter, in the GOP primary runoff for Georgias 14th District on Tuesday night.
The congressman was the first GOP lawmaker to criticize Greene's win, asserting there is "no place in Congress for these conspiracies."
Following Greene's win, Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to voice his support for the GOP candidate, calling her a "future Republican star."
"Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent," Trump tweeted. "Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up - a real WINNER!"
Requests for further comment from Wolking and the Trump campaign were not immediately returned. Kinzinger's office also did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.
The QAnon conspiracy, which began shortly before the November election in 2016, claims without evidence that top Democratic officials, major celebrities and figures in the media are working together to bring down Trump and are tied to an international child sex trafficking ring. The theory is based on posts by a mysterious individual or group of individuals on an anonymous internet forum.
The posts have made numerous predictions that have not come to fruition, including claiming that Trump's 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton would be arrested as a result of the now-shuttered Russia investigation.
Greene is expected to win the general election in her red district in November. She won 60 percent of the vote in Tuesday's runoff election
There is no deep state. It is an internet hoax, probably invented by leftists to make us look like a bunch of tin foil hat nut jobs. Stop drinking their Kool Aid.
I had not considered that, generally assuming it was a Dimocrat false flag op. Of course the two possibilities are not mutually exclusive.
“or just plain ignorant”
Everyone know the conspiracy is real.
Only the deluded believe “q” has some special inside knowledge.
Or crazy, whichever you prefer.
President Trump is strong for the U.S.A., will defend our country and will obtain necessary spending for our defense. Biden and Harris would be weak leaders, not in our best interests and would cut defense spending. Read the following to see how this is relevant to the topic of the post above this thread.
Facebook takes down misinformation networks linked to QAnon
digitaltrends
By Will Nicol
May 5, 2020
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/facebook-removes-russian-iranian-networks-coronavirus-misinformation/
Facebook removed hundreds of accounts and pages involved in manipulating public debate, many based out of Russia and Iran, in April, the company announced on Tuesday, May 5.
Domestic accounts in the U.S. linked to QAnon conspiracy theorists were also removed as part of Facebooks latest salvo against misinformation, according to the latest Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report.
According to the report, Facebook removed over 700 accounts and nearly 800 pages in April, noting that although all of them had been created before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, they had begun using coronavirus-related posts to develop their audiences.
The report claims that Russian and Iranian networks were engaged in international campaigns, posting in numerous languages and targeting a variety of regions. The report implicates two Crimean news organizations as well as Islamic Republic Broadcasting of Iran, the countrys dominant news network.
The company defines coordinated inauthentic behavior as coordinated efforts to manipulate public debate for a strategic goal where fake accounts are central to the operation either by domestic, non-state operations or, more seriously, foreign governments.
This is from the second Q drop...
This is not a R v D battle.
What you are missing is Qanon is global, you think there are many Republicans in Iran or over in Europe??
I'll bet he retweets Kurt "TentacleBoy" Eichenwald...
Meh, don’t bother me. It’s pretty funny that some pizza faced kids on 4Chan are suckering in people with the “Q” trolling prank. It’s always funnier when people get into it and make it a self-own. What good are gullible people if you can play with their gullibility, heh?
The 4channers youngsters have some good luck with pranks like Q. Great good trolling. This one is my favorite, I think:
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/05/03/today-show-gets-righteously-punked-4chan
We don’t want more hoax dossiers or conspiracy theories from Russia. We don’t need conspiracy theory input from China or Iran, either.
.@MSNBC @CNN @andersoncooper had QAnon hit pieces on at the same time.
Panic mode.— ]intheMatrixxx[ (@intheMatrixxx) August 13, 2020
Yep, another bogus “headline”.
Your opinion is what youre entitled to, no sense arguing about Q.
I will say that the dull and defeatist attitude here is what makes the cite look bad. Endless carping about how nothing ever changes, all the while overlooking many positive steps made.
Constant criticism of our President and how all the geniuses here could do it so much better. That makes the place unbearable and sounding like nut jobs.
Seems the oldies prefer to ride on coattails of long gone days and bring nothing fresh and new but damn, they can bitch up a storm.
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‘Qanon is Chinese intelligence.’
And you don’t think POTUS would have said something about it if that were so? Your claim doesn’t even make sense. Q is pro-Trump and far from pro-Chinese. If it’s Chinese intelligence, they’re doing a damn poor job.
Brilliant. Chinese Intelligence has been exposing all of China's international criminality up to and including their intentional attack on America and the world with a manufactured bio-weapon. And they have exposed that Trump has intelligence evidence of this fact and is purposefully not disclosing that evidence in order to avoid WWIII.
And Chinese Intelligence is exposing American politicians like Feinstein that are corrupt agents of China.
Yea, that sounds like something Chinese Intelligence would do.
Do you people even think?
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Anyone that doesn't believe there's an international 'deep state' is part of the problem.
And please don't include me in your 'us'. Seems we're playing for different teams at this point.
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Check out this link:
http://www.globalistagenda.org/quotes.htm
to read about 150 quotes from the globalists in their own words over the last 150 or so years.
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I ask you to read the answer I gave to mariner. It applies to your assumption.
So the democrats are exposing THEIR corruption over the past decades. And they re telling on themselves for working with the Chinese to perpetuate the rona hoax and using it to seize power. Why would they do that?
And I guess General Michael Flynn is a Chinese operative. Or is he a Democrat operative? Or are the two not mutually exclusive?
Flynn 'believes' and supports the Qanon movement and fights against the deep state with his army of 'digital soldiers.
Explain that.
But you and mariner got a nice conspiracy theory goin' on there.
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