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

Posted on 08/13/2020 2:42:25 PM PDT by 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

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To: MNDude

Closely connected, no doubt, with the Boogaloo Movement™, another white supreemist terrorist threat identified by Your FBI.


21 posted on 08/13/2020 2:54:00 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: MNDude

Nobody rioted, nobody attacked, yet it’s a “violent threat”?


22 posted on 08/13/2020 2:54:27 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: MNDude
Riiiiggghhht...Qtards are a violent threat. Not the paid antifa soybois with molotov cocktails burning down our cities. Not the blm marxists lasering cops and federal officers in the eye, but nerds in a basement somewhere posting Pepe memes.

The Faggots Being Incompetent should be ashamed.

23 posted on 08/13/2020 2:54:47 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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Interesting they forgot to enumerate a single violent act by QAnon or a supporter. (Comet Ping Pong shooter?)

Meanwhile innumerable BLM riots are ongoing and have the full support of establishment Democrats.


24 posted on 08/13/2020 2:54:51 PM PDT by bhl
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To: MNDude

Hmm ... another mainstream media article about “Q”. CNN and PBS have also published articles involving “Q” in the past couple of days.

Something’s up.


25 posted on 08/13/2020 2:55:03 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: MNDude

THIS is all the WaPo has?


26 posted on 08/13/2020 3:01:23 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: MNDude; Jim Robertson

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.”


27 posted on 08/13/2020 3:02:34 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT ( Amos5: Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the (gate) Court.)
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To: MNDude

FBI aka FIB is the real violent threat.

Q folks wipe their behinds with trashed WaPo’s.


28 posted on 08/13/2020 3:05:30 PM PDT by dforest
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To: MNDude

I missed the videos of QAnon looting buildings, burning police stations, and beating citizens. The Fake News is spreading the fertilizer so thick they better be careful it doesn’t go Beirut on them.


29 posted on 08/13/2020 3:06:00 PM PDT by SDShack
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To: MNDude

Trump’s best defense to this nitpicking garbage is a good offense — on the major MAGA issues.


30 posted on 08/13/2020 3:07:35 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: MNDude

Q is nonsense supported by misguided people on the right as well as what is probably a bit of foreign influence, but it’s hardly a major, violent threat. It’s the leftists that are actively destroying this country.


31 posted on 08/13/2020 3:09:31 PM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: MNDude

For two months, BLM and Antifa have been burning buildings and automobiles, assaulting people, looting, and smashing windows, and the only threat the FBI can see is Q-Anon because they publish “conspiracy theories”? I detest what the FBI has become.


32 posted on 08/13/2020 3:13:04 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: MNDude

The FBI never did this and it’s a lie that the Washington Compost claims it did.

There was was ONE document that came out of a single FBI office in Arizona that casually mentioned it. Nothing from FBI leadership, zero.

For a LARP that Q team sure is plugged in and making the leftists squirm. All this effort for a LARP?

Even here on the vaunted Free Republic you see people siding with the likes of the Washington Compost. You would think that hearing the Compost publish things against QAnon might make people on the right suspect there is something to it rather than joining them. Sad really.


33 posted on 08/13/2020 3:15:56 PM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Violent threat? C’mon, man!


Not exactly. “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.”

QAnon is among a group that ‘very likely’ motivates ‘some’ people to commit ‘sometimes violent activity’.

Unlike groups that have wrecking things, starting fires, looting, attacking law-enforcement officers in places like NYC, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis.


34 posted on 08/13/2020 3:19:01 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: bhl

Just the mention of Qanon seems to trigger a royal tissy fit in some ppl.


35 posted on 08/13/2020 3:20:06 PM PDT by TauntedTiger (Political correctness analyst/expert/victim)
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To: MNDude

PBS Frontline did a whole show on Trump and Alex Jones. I was intrigued. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/alex-jones-and-donald-trump-how-the-candidate-echoed-the-conspiracy-theorist-on-the-campaign-trail/


36 posted on 08/13/2020 3:26:01 PM PDT by Kalija (I've seen the future and left it behind)
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To: MNDude
Oh, I see, according to the FBI: Remind me, how many people QAnon has killed? Uh-huh. Remind me how many buildings have been burned down by QAnon? Remind me how many riots have been started by QAnon? Remind me what branch of the government the FBI reports too?

Finally remind me why the FBI isn't on the chopping block?
 

37 posted on 08/13/2020 3:30:30 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

It’s the Washington Compost. Take it with a grain of salt.


38 posted on 08/13/2020 3:30:43 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: MNDude

This article is lobbing a softball to big tech to censor all content involving Q stuff.


39 posted on 08/13/2020 3:56:17 PM PDT by ARW
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To: MNDude

repeating an oath originating on 8kun, a message board ...

What is 8kun? Does the WaPo reporter mean 8chan?


40 posted on 08/13/2020 3:57:28 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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