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Trump’s Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI
Just Security ^

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: chat; q; qanon; qtards
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To: Pollster1
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.

Yeah? So what?

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LOOK! Domestic Terrorist!!


21 posted on 08/03/2019 3:08:08 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Wray looks fey.


22 posted on 08/03/2019 3:12:42 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Trump should never have appointed Wray. Now, he and the American people are stuck with him.


23 posted on 08/03/2019 3:22:14 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Concur...


24 posted on 08/03/2019 3:24:12 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: thinden

They are about as far to the right as CNN is to the left.


25 posted on 08/03/2019 3:28:21 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: SkyPilot

Trump has a habit of appointing people like Wray who do not serve his policies. A terrible choice. I suspect it has a lot to do with sinecures being tossed to Hill Republicans. Sick.


26 posted on 08/03/2019 3:28:30 AM PDT by laconic
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To: MNDude

Bill Mitchell is neither “right-wing” nor he is an “extremist.” What utter bullcrap.

And God forbid anyone should criticize the low IQ jackboots at the pathetic TSA.

And the FBI? I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them.


27 posted on 08/03/2019 3:30:27 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump IS The Resistance!)
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To: MNDude

The media just won’t ask POTUS the Question. Perhaps they already know the answer. It seems to me the the President is trying to force the media to ask.


28 posted on 08/03/2019 3:30:57 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: MNDude

And the FBI allows antifa who we can physically see attacking those they disagree with and destroying property to continue, no terrorist label for them. If the FBI is jumping on AQnon they may feel threatened


29 posted on 08/03/2019 3:41:15 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: MNDude

And who did obama have visiting the WH?

BLM?

What were their chants

fry em like bacon?
want em dead now?

Dallas shooter kills cops after that

but let’s worry about some people working a game of clues


30 posted on 08/03/2019 3:54:43 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: SkyPilot

Wray is a SMIRKING MONKEY DEEP STATER! FIRE HIM, Pres. Trump!


31 posted on 08/03/2019 3:58:18 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MNDude

Its funny how they always cry “conspiracy” but most of these so called conspiracys that have been floating around for years, have been proven true. Thanks to Trump exposing the swamp for what they are.


32 posted on 08/03/2019 3:59:48 AM PDT by spincaster (ust)
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To: bagster

“p.s. Read the article to understand why this is different.”

That’s a far stretch to call that an article. Looks and reads like a BLOG. Justin Hendrix should get a real job.

https://www.justsecurity.org/author/hendrixjustin/

Check this comment out from the BLOG......

“From the Mueller investigation to the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, QAnon adherents do not want for new “clues” to enliven their theories.”

Oh right, Mueller’s investigation and Jeffrey Epstein sitting in jail for being part of a human sex trafficking ring are just ‘theories’.

Also from the BLOG..

“But that approach is at odds with the President and other conservatives, who have invested a lot of effort in claims that conservative voices are censored by the tech giants. These largely unsubstantiated claims have in turn spawned new conspiracy theories, while arbitrary or confusing “

That’s right folks this BLOG writer says don’t believe your lying eyes and ears because media is pure as the driven snow and would never be dishonest or lie or even NOT REPORT ON STORIES.

Talk about spewing the kool-aid, this BLOG writer is a real nutter unless you are a mindless blind, deaf and dumb sheeple.

Q is doing the job the media no longer does and making the NeverTrumpers, the deep state, their defenders and enablers loose their mind at the same time and write crap BLOG screeds like the one presented here.

Vive le Q!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 08/03/2019 4:05:15 AM PDT by MagnoliaB ( You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you will find you get what you need.)
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To: SkyPilot
"Now, he and the American people are stuck with him."

Why can't POTUS just fire his useless a$$? What am I missing?
34 posted on 08/03/2019 4:13:43 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: MNDude

The FBI memo suggests “significant efforts by major social media companies and websites to remove, regulate or counter potentially harmful conspiratorial content” could change the dynamic.

i.e., the FBI suggests stomping on the 1st Amendment rights of some


35 posted on 08/03/2019 4:14:00 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: MagnoliaB

Don’t have a seizure, granny.


36 posted on 08/03/2019 4:15:11 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: MagnoliaB

Media Matters just posted a very similar article, but I didn’t bother trying to share that.


37 posted on 08/03/2019 4:16:59 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: MagnoliaB

The whole Q movement hinges on the belief that Donald Trump is the leader, known as Q+, and he is supporting it. All anyone has to do is the easy step of ASKING him directly, and it kills the theory stone dead.


38 posted on 08/03/2019 4:22:59 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: MNDude

39 posted on 08/03/2019 4:38:39 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: humblegunner

40 posted on 08/03/2019 4:42:34 AM PDT by USMC79to83
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