AP: Pence to attend event hosted by QAnon backers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence and top officials from President Donald Trump’s campaign are slated to attend a Montana fundraiser next week hosted by a couple who have expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to an event invitation obtained by The Associated Press and a review of social media postings.

The hosts of the fundraiser, Caryn and Michael Borland, have shared QAnon memes and retweeted posts from QAnon accounts, their social media activity shows. The baseless conspiracy theory posits that Trump is fighting entrenched enemies in the government and also involves satanism and child sex trafficking.

Beyond Pence, the Sept. 14 fundraiser in Bozeman, Montana, is expected to draw influential figures in the president’s orbit including Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top Trump fundraising official who is dating Donald Trump Jr., GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Republican National Committee finance chairman Todd Ricketts and RNC co-chairman Tommy Hicks Jr., the event invitation shows.

While many Republicans have dismissed QAnon, the fundraiser is another sign of how the conspiracy theory is gaining a foothold in the party. Trump has hailed Georgia congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, another QAnon supporter, as a “future Republican star.” The president has refused to condemn QAnon, recently telling reporters that the conspiracy theory is “gaining in popularity” and that its supporters “like me very much.”

We’ve come a long way with the media since Rather called Florida for Gore.

I’m sure the media was in the tank long before then, but that is the day I tuned it all out. No more tv, radio, papers...

Too funny that TheAssPress can’t guilt Pence out of attending. I’m sure they’re besides themselves.... “Don’t they know who we are!!??”

I have no clue who or what QAnon is, or even whether it is simply a figment of the imagination of various media. But that “Trump is fighting entrenched enemies in the government,” whether the professional bureaucracy or Nancy Pelosi or some other person or entity is manifest and indisputable. If you don’t believe me, then consider that the District of Columbia rejected Trump most resoundingly among all counties and county equivalents in the entire United States of America in the election of 2016. The millions of high-level bureaucrats of the permanent bureaucracy and their families and associates live and work in the District of Columbia and its suburbs. And I haven’t even discussed the attempt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other government agencies to use bureaucratic maneuvering and proprietorial powers to undermine the President and his appointees.

Overt, open Satanism unfortunately continues to increase explosively in popularity, and various sins that send a soul to Hell for all eternity are alarmingly commmonplace, accepted, even celebrated, especially among Democrats. And child sex trafficking, widely rumored as the practice of a truly disgraceful impeached ex-President, occurs with alarming regularity across the southwestern border and in various other parts of this ever more anti-moral country.

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