How the Trump campaign came to court QAnon, the online conspiracy movement identified by the FBI as a violent threat

Washington Post ^

[MNDude]

The viral online movement, which took root on Internet message boards in the fall of 2017 with posts from a self-proclaimed government insider identified as “Q,” has triggered violent acts and occasional criminal cases. Its effects were catalogued last year in an FBI intelligence bulletin listing QAnon among the “anti-government, identity-based, and fringe political conspiracy theories” that “very likely motivate some domestic extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent activity.”

The Trump campaign’s director of press communications, for example, went on a QAnon program and urged listeners to “sign up and attend a Trump Victory Leadership Initiative training.” QAnon iconography has appeared in official campaign advertisements targeting battleground states. And the White House’s director of social media and deputy chief of staff for communications, Dan Scavino, has gone from endorsing praise from QAnon accounts to posting their memes himself.

The president has repeatedly elevated its digital foot soldiers, sharing their tweets more than a dozen times on the Fourth of July alone. His middle son, Eric, who is 36 and a campaign surrogate, recently posted, and then deleted, an image drumming up support for his father’s Tulsa rally that included a giant “Q” and the text, “Where we go one, we go all.”

Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with a Russian diplomat in late 2016, recently recorded a video of himself repeating an oath originating on 8kun, a message board where Q, who claims high-level security clearance, posts esoteric references and half-baked ideas that followers call “bread crumbs.”

“Where we go one, we go all,” intoned Flynn, his right hand raised, at the end of the oath, which otherwise follows a generic script administered to new members of Congress. Flynn did not respond to a text message seeking comment

[DouglasKC]

Do you think Michael Flynn knew what he was talking about when he said wwg1wga?

[MNDude]

Flynn, 3 star general, former director of NSA, has only posted NINE tweets since returning to Twitter back in April.

One of those videos is an obvious endorsement of Q.

Q claims he is a group of Military Intelligence patriots who had worked with some NSA agents devising a plan against the deepstate from well before Trump was President.

Let that sink in.

[DouglasKC]

Flynn, 3 star general, former director of NSA, has only posted NINE tweets since returning to Twitter back in April. One of those videos is an obvious endorsement of Q. Q claims he is a group of Military Intelligence patriots who had worked with some NSA agents devising a plan against the deepstate from well before Trump was President. Let that sink in.

I agree that Flynn is no nut. He knows there's something to Q even if he's not directly involved....which i think he is....which is why they are so anxious to bury him.

[Chgogal]

FBI needs to be shut down.

[MNDude]

Actually I read some guy did a FOIA regarding this, and that statement about the FBI is fake news.

[CJ Wolf]

Q hasn’t posted in 13 days but MSM has gone Balls to the Wall on this kinda coverage. lol. Ask the Q, MSM. Quit pussyfooting around, you are in the press conferences for a reason.

[CJ Wolf]

“Mr. Trump, How do you feel about lying about everything?”

Actual press core Question.

[Revolutionary]

The dems should be afraid. Very afraid!

[LucyT]

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PING

bray wrote:

"At least the FBI found a group they think is a threat to America. God knows they never considered Islam or BLM a problem."

[bagster]

I was able to correctly identify Director Wray as a deep state tool over a year ago

Yea, that works when you think everybody's a derp state tool. Your type covers all your bases. I've even see some of you detectives say Trump and Barr are derp state tools.

Its called burn out. Little minds have a very narrow sense o scope and everything is a nail to them. You people are very limited and child-like thinkers.

But excellent work detective. Next time you know something he doesn't, do the world a favor and give him a call. Maybe we can hook you up with a job in the White House, genius.

But something tells me I won't be coming to you for the inside scoop, Mickety. I think I'll stick with my boy Q.

[bagster]

“Mr. Trump, How do you feel about lying about everything?” Actual press core Question.

Trick question. If he really did lie about everything, he would have said, "I don't lie about everything".

Amirite?

[DouglasKC]

A reporterette today asked Pres Trump today about some lady running for office who was into the "qanon conspiracy". presdient trump apparently supports her and so the reporterette wanted to know if he believed in the qanon conspiracy.

His answer was that he completely supported her but he totally ignored the qanon part of it.

[EasySt]

Do you think Michael Flynn knew what he was talking about when he said wwg1wga?

Well, this happened...

PVT Episode 14: Mary Flynn
https://youtu.be/lnzSK8l19hA

~Easy~
#WWG1WGA

#TheGeneralWasThere

[EasySt]

Good to see you, Bags!

~Easy~
#WWG1WGA

[ARW]

I called it.