Posted on 02/09/2020 9:34:56 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
MILWAUKEE — President Donald Trump was more than halfway through his speech at a rally in Milwaukee when one of his hand gestures caught the eye of a supporter standing in the packed arena.
The 51-year-old woman believed the president had traced the shape of the letter “Q” with his fingers as a covert signal to followers of QAnon, a right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. She turned to the couple on her right and excitedly asked, “Did you see the ‘Q’?”
“He just did it?” asked Diane Jacobson, 63, of Racine, Wisconsin.
“Was that a ‘Q’?” added Jacobson’s husband, Randy, 64.
“I think it was,” replied their new friend, Chrisy. The Geneva, Illinois, resident declined to give her last name in part because she said she wanted to avoid negative “attention.”
The Jacobsons met Chrisy and her husband, Paul, hours earlier in the line to get into the Jan 14 rally. The couples bonded over their shared interest in QAnon, which centers on the baseless belief that Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.
What started as an online obsession for the far-right fringe has grown beyond its origins in a dark corner of the internet. QAnon has been creeping into the mainstream political arena for more than a year. The trend shows no sign of abating as Trump fires up his reelection campaign operation, attracting a loyal audience of conspiracy theorists and other fringe groups to his raucous rallies.
Trump has retweeted QAnon-promoting accounts. Followers flock to Trump’s rallies wearing clothes and hats with QAnon symbols and slogans. At least 23 current or former congressional candidates in the 2020 election cycle have endorsed or promoted QAnon,...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
A lot of attention for a LARP.
Yo bagster.
When will the media ask the question?
“far right fringe”
The old one-winged “fringe” bird again, only has a right wing!
Will the media ever ask the question?
Perhaps they're scared of the answer they might get if they ever did.
Yea. Wouldn't take much for the Washington Times to ask the President about Q at one of their 'press conference' gaggles.
Are they shy? Let's finally put this whacko conspiracy theory to bed once and for all as only Trump can, eh?
What is ya, chicken?
Trust Sessions
'Baseless', eh?
Why, because they say?
They aren't the news. We are the news.
If I remember correctly it was...Trust Sessions. Trust Rosenstein. 
Trust a scorpion to act in their nature.
QAnon is a bunch of crazy garbage and should not appear on this website
I agree. It’s become a religious following almost. Some of it is just playing off the plainly obvious corruption we all saw for 8 years under Obama and then the rest is almost like a bad science fiction movie. It also has a strong antisemitic undertone blaming the rothchilds and other banker families for everything.
Agree!
Agree!
I wonder what happens if you play Trump's speech backwards? Maybe there is a clue in there.
Introducing the newest news talk show channel, Q where the trump er a the truth lurks in the dialogue and proofs are in the reruns.
The article is from the Washington Times.
So you’re saying the Washington Times should be banned, Mr. Cancel Culture?
Trump didn't have the support in Congress. Sessions had to let the democrats "investigate" Trump. If Sessions fired everyone from the get go. Trump might of had real problems.
Durham and Huber(not finished) investigations where started by Sessions
I said QAnon is not legit and shouldn’t be on here any more than astrology should. Do you read English?
Just when I was thinking of introducing it to the Gardening thread.
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