Prepostersous, is it?
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Members of the media should also press the President on where he stands.
I agree. Why don't they?
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Posted on 08/03/2019 12:55:59 AM PDT by MNDude
Trump’s Support for QAnon
As preposterous as it might seem, the Trump administration has helped to prop up this conspiracy theory by endorsing its proponents and amplifying their messages.
The President has retweeted QAnon supporters, perhaps unwittingly, dozens of times. On one such recent occasion, he shared a video critical of the Transportation Security Administration that originated from a Twitter account called Deep State Exposed that is operated by a QAnon follower. More recently, the President retweeted two accounts that promote the conspiracy theory in order to share allegations against Democrats related to election security and voter fraud. The Washington Post’s headline itself blared, “Trump shares Twitter accounts linked to conspiracy theory QAnon.” QAnon supporters are “overjoyed when Trump does retweet, believing it’s evidence he supports their movement,” according to responses reviewed by the Post.
Perhaps more significant is the President’s eagerness to engage personally with individuals who advance the conspiracy theory. For instance, right wing media personality Bill Mitchell “has regularly used his radio show and Twitter account to boost and legitimize ‘Q,’ the central figure of the QAnon conspiracy theory, sometimes hosting major QAnon believers,” according to Alex Kaplan at Media Matters. Mitchell was among the extremists invited to the White House for its recent Social Media Summit. Another QAnon supporter and conspiracy theorist, Michael Lebron, was photographed with Donald Trump in the Oval Office last summer, according to CNN. The news outlet headline also amplified the encounter, “QAnon-believing ‘conspiracy analyst’ meets Trump in the White House.” ... What can be done? One step, of course, would be for those close to the President to try to prevail upon him to lay off the promotion of QAnon. Members of the media should also press the President on where he stands. This is the time for him to disavow if not condemn QAnon.
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For instance, right wing media personality Bill Mitchell “has regularly used his radio show and Twitter account to boost and legitimize ‘Q,’ the central figure of the QAnon conspiracy theory, sometimes hosting major QAnon believers,” according to Alex Kaplan at Media Matters.
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It’s a conspiracy I say C.O.N.S.P.I.R.A.C.Y..
Just ask the FIB who sat on their Comeystained hands watching with glee as Islamonazis attempted to murder critics of Islamofascism in Irvin Texas. FUBOFBI
qanaon pokes and prods and asks inconvenient questions...sometimes they are off base but sometimes they are right on the money. They are like a prodding poking wife who senses trouble in their mate and won’t stop until she gets the answer. I don’t see them provoking violence the same way some pol’s might encourage Antifa to be violent. If some get violent based on qanon assertions, then chances are those individuals would have gotten violent over other political liberal excesses anyway. Actually, astute politicians should take into consideration just how triggered the general population is feeling, based on these...”canary in the coal mine” violence events when they occur.(The John Brown rebellion in 1859, put down in 1859 ironically by Robert E Lee was just such a canry in the coal mine event.)
Prepostersous, is it?
Members of the media should also press the President on where he stands.
I agree. Why don't they?
LOL! What hypocrites! This site has a Trump-Russia collusion section.
https://www.justsecurity.org/trump-russia-timeline/
This is BS
Using similar logic one could surmise that Antifa, occupy, me-to, killmybaby and any number of movements (including IBS), is Trumps fault.
Some folks really need to Get a life.
Probably the same reason nobody asks him about the earth
being flat or chemtrails or bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster.
Yea, that must be it.
p.s. Read the article to understand why this is different.
Bwaahaahaa!
As if.
Read the article indeed. You're a funny guy!
The QAnon crowd is about as dangerous as the DAR.
Where do you get this stuff?
Just Security is based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.
Justin Hendrix is Executive Director of NYC Media Lab, connecting media and tech companies with NYC universities to drive digital media innovation and entrepreneurship. Previously he was Vice President, Business Development & Innovation for The Economist. He holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MSc in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.
University of Texas at Austin?
UT? Leftist insanity. Embarrassment to Texas.
It’s amusing that the party supporting Antifa terrorism and the party obsessed with race is the party accusing normal Americans of supporting violence and of being racist.
Pretty much the definition of Projection.
Wouldn't be the first instance from those of the Left.
What is this? The SPLC terrorists pointing Q ro the FBI as “consultants” to law enforcement? Sorros?
I smell another GPS obscurantist organization looking for bogus Fisa warrants , or fighting to keep these rigged Fisas alive.
I can see it. Just security promoting illegals and antifa storming America. What utter horsesht.
If that was true, they would have to go after hundreds of thousands of people.
Wray is hitting back, and he feels very threatened.
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