But his campaign rally in Tampa Tuesday was about more than
just the mid-terms. It was the national coming out party for
Q, a conspiracy theory that has been kicking around the Trump
world internet for just about a year. One part Pizza gate, one
part X-Files, the theory posits a government agent (with
supposed "Q-Level" Top Secret clearance) putting cryptic
messages on Trump-friendly message boards, telling adept
readers where to find clues that point to a massive government
conspiracy Trump is single-handedly thwarting from the oval
office in secret.
Example: The Mueller probe was actually being run by Trump as
a smokescreen to cover up an investigation into his sex
trafficking by Democrats and movie stars, according to some Q
denizens. The Tampa rally had a lot of Q'ers feeling like
Trump acknowledged them directly, urging them to carry on."
FAILED QANON PREDICTIONS, BASED ON LIES, DAMNED LIES AND
FAKE STATISTICS
Chris Hedges "The Politics of Cultural Despair"
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing
the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of
statistics
to bolster weak
arguments.
Failed predictions
Wikipedia; "HRC extradition already in motion effective
yesterday with several countries in case of cross border
run. Passport approved to be flagged effective 10/30 @
12:01am. Expect massive riots organized in defiance and
others fleeing the US to occur. US M's will conduct the
operation while NG activated. Proof check: Locate a NG
member and ask if activated for duty 10/30 across most major
cities.
—QAnon's first post on the
/pol/
message board of
4chan, on October 28, 2017
[65]
A common logo used by QAnon followers.
QAnon's first prediction was that Hillary Clinton was about
to be arrested and would attempt to flee the country. This
prediction failed. Other failed predictions include:
[66]
"The Storm" would take place on November 3, 2017. There were
no notable events in US politics on that day.
People targeted by the president would commit suicide en
masse on February 10, 2018. No prominent people committed
suicide that day.
There would be a car bombing in London around February 16,
2018. There was no bombing.
The
Five Eyes
“won’t be around much longer.” It has not been terminated.
Something major would happen in
Chongqing
on April 10, 2018. Nothing notable happened in Chongqing
that day.
There would be a "bombshell" revelation about
North Korea
in May 2018. There were no notable developments.
A "smoking gun" video of Hillary Clinton would emerge in
March 2018. No video appeared.
Multiple failed predictions that
John McCain
would resign from the US Senate. McCain did not resign.
Multiple failed predictions that
Mark Zuckerberg
would leave
Facebook
and flee the United States. Zuckerberg remains CEO of
Facebook.
Multiple failed predictions that
Twitter
CEO
Jack Dorsey
would be forced to resign. Dorsey remains CEO of Twitter.
Multiple failed predictions that "something big" would
happen or the truth would emerge "next week".
False claims
As well as the failed predictions, Q has posted numerous
false, baseless, and unsubstantiated claims, such as:
A July 7, 2018,
Daily Beast
article noted that Q falsely claimed that "each mass
shooting is a false-flag attack organized by the cabal".
[9]
That Obama, Hillary Clinton,
George Soros, and others are planning a coup against Trump and are
involved in an international child sex-trafficking ring.
That the
Mueller investigation
is actually a counter-coup led by Trump, who pretended to
conspire with Russia in order to hire Mueller to secretly
investigate the Democrats.
[11]
That certain Hollywood stars are pedophiles, and that the
Rothschild family
leads a
satanic cult.
[10]
Similar political allegations and rumors have circulated
since the 1970s. Typically the allegations revolved around
investigators using existing Satanic cults to lure and
blackmail left-wing activists, or in the case of the
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations, Satanic sexual abuse perpetrated by elite Republicans. A
significant difference between the older narratives and the
QAnon of today is that now elite Democrats are considered
the villains instead of Republicans.
[70]
Evolution of Q's claims
Q's posts have become more cryptic and vague, allowing
followers to map their own beliefs onto them.
[71]
Some posts include strings of characters that are allegedly
coded messages; by generating a keyboard
heatmap
of Q's supposedly coded messages,
information security
researcher Mark Burnett concluded that they "are not actual
codes, just random typing by someone who might play an
instrument and uses a
QWERTY
keyboard", adding that "almost all the characters" in the
codes alternate between the left and right hands, or are
close to each other on the keyboard.
[72]
Attempts by Q to explain false claims and failed predictions
On multiple occasions, Q has dismissed their false claims
and incorrect predictions as deliberate, claiming that
"disinformation is necessary".
[73]
This has led Australian psychologist
Stephan Lewandowsky
to emphasize the "self-sealing" quality of the conspiracy
theory, highlighting its anonymous purveyor's use of
plausible deniability
and noting that evidence against the theory "can become
evidence of [its] validity in the minds of believers".
[65]
Author
Walter Kirn
has described Q as an innovator among conspiracy theorists
by enthralling readers with "clues" rather than presenting
claims directly: "The audience for internet narratives
doesn't want to read, it wants to write. It doesn't want
answers provided, it wants to search for them."
[74]
.....The Washington Post and
The Forward
magazine have called QAnon's targeting of Jewish figures
like
George Soros
and
the Rothschilds
"striking
anti-Semitic
elements" and "garden-variety nonsense with racist and
anti-Semitic undertones".
[11][96]
A
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
article in August 2018 asserted: "some of QAnon's
archetypical elements—including secret elites and kidnapped
children, among others—are reflective of historical and
ongoing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories".
[97]
The
Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) reported that while "the vast majority of
QAnon-inspired conspiracy theories have nothing to do with
anti-Semitism", "an impressionistic review" of QAnon tweets
about Israel, Jews, Zionists, the Rothschilds, and Soros
"revealed some troubling examples" of antisemitism.
[98]
According to ADL, several aspects of QAnon lore mirror
longstanding antisemitic tropes.
[99]
For example, the belief that a global "cabal" is involved in
rituals of child sacrifice has its roots in the
medieval
antisemitic trope of
blood libel[100]—the theory that Jews murder Christian children for
ritualistic purposes—and QAnon's ongoing obsession with a
global elite of bankers also has antisemitic undertones.
[101]
The Czarist hoax
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
has intersected with the QAnon conspiracy theories, with
Republican QAnon fan Mary Ann Mendoza retweeting a Twitter
thread about the
Rothschild family, Satanic High Priestesses, and American presidents saying
that "The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion Is Not A
Fabrication. And, It Certainly Is Not Anti-Semitic To Point
Out This Fact."
[102][103]
Mendoza sits on the advisory board of
Women for Trump
and was scheduled to speak at the 2020 Republican convention
until news of her Twitter activity came out;
[104]
she later denied knowing the content of the thread, although
anti-Semitic references appeared in the first few tweets.
[105]
Similarly, Trump has denied knowing anything about QAnon
except that QAnon fans like him and "love our country."
[106]
By 2020, QAnon followers were advancing a theory that
Hollywood elites were engaging in "
adrenochrome
harvesting," in which
adrenaline
is extracted from children's blood to produce the
psychoactive drug adrenochrome. Adrenochrome harvesting is
rooted in antisemitic myths of blood libel.
[107][108][109]
QAnon believers have also promoted a centuries-old
antisemitic trope about an international banking conspiracy
orchestrated by the Rothschild family.
[110]
Genocide scholar
Gregory Stanton
has described QAnon as a "
Nazi
group rebranded", and its theories as a rebranded version of
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
[111][112]
Appeal and disillusionment
Experts have classified QAnon's appeal as comparable to that
of religious cults. According to an expert in online
conspiracy, Renee DiResta, QAnon's pattern of enticement is
similar to that of cults in the pre-Internet era where, as
the targeted person was led deeper and deeper into the
group's secrets, they become increasingly isolated from
friends and family outside the cult.
[113]
Online support groups developed for those whose loved ones
were drawn into QAnon, notably the
subreddit
r/qanoncasualties, which grew from 3,500 participants in
June 2020 to 28,000 by October.
[114]
In the Internet age, QAnon virtual communities have little
"real world" connection with each other, but online they can
number in the tens of thousands.
[113]
Rachel Bernstein, an expert on cults who specializes in
recovery therapy, has said, "What a movement such as QAnon
has going for it, and why it will catch on like wildfire, is
that it makes people feel connected to something important
that other people don't yet know about. ...
All cults will provide this feeling of being special." There
is no self-correction process within the group, since the
self-reinforcing true believers are immune to correction,
fact-checking, or counter-speech, which is drowned out by
the cult's
groupthink.
[113]
QAnon's cultish quality has led to its characterization as a
possible emerging religious movement.
[39][27][40]
Part of its appeal is its gamelike quality, in which
followers attempt to solve riddles presented in Qdrops by
connecting them to Trump speeches and tweets and other
sources.
[18]
Some followers use a "Q clock" consisting of a wheel of
concentric dials to decode clues based on the timing of
Qdrops and Trump's tweets.
[27]
Travis View, a researcher who studies QAnon, says that it is
as addictive as a video game, and offers the "player" the
appealing possibility of being involved in something of
world-historical importance. According to View, "You can sit
at your computer and search for information and then post
about what you find, and Q basically promises that through
this process, you are going to radically change the country,
institute this incredible, almost bloodless revolution, and
then be part of this historical movement that will be
written about for generations." View compares this to
mundane political involvement in which one's efforts might
help to get a state legislator elected. QAnon, says View,
competes not in the marketplace of ideas, but in the
marketplace of realities.
[115]
Nonetheless, some QAnon believers have eventually started to
realize that they have been isolated from family and loved
ones, and suffer loneliness because of it. For some, this is
a pathway to beginning the process of divesting themselves
of their cultish beliefs, while for others, the isolation
reinforces the benefits they get from belonging to the cult.
View says:
People in the QAnon community often talk about alienation
from family and friends. ... Though they typically talk
about how Q frayed their relationships on private Facebook
groups. But they think these issues are temporary and
primarily the fault of others. They often comfort themselves
by imagining that there will be a moment of vindication
sometime in the near future which will prove their beliefs
right. They imagine that after this happens, not only will
their relationships be restored, but people will turn to
them as leaders who understand what's going on better than
the rest of us.
[116]
Some Q followers break away when they recognize the theories
are not self-consistent or see that some of the content is
directly aimed at getting donations from a specific
audience, such as evangelical or conservative Christians.
This then "breaks the spell" the conspiracies had over them.
Others start watching Q-debunking videos; one former
believer says that the videos "saved" her.
[116]
Disillusionment can also come from the failure of the
theories' predictions. Q predicted Republican success in the
2018 US midterm elections
and claimed that
Attorney General
Jeff Sessions
was involved in secret work for Trump, with apparent
tensions between them a cover. When Democrats made
significant gains and Trump fired Sessions, there was
disillusionment among many in the Q community.
[117][118]
Further disillusionment came when a predicted December 5
mass arrest and imprisonment in
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
of Trump's enemies did not occur, nor did the dismissal of
charges against Trump's former National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn. For some, these failures began the process of separation
from the QAnon cult, while others urged
direct action
in the form of an insurrection against the government.
QAnon follower
Liz Crokin, who in 2018 asserted that
John F. Kennedy Jr.
faked
his death
and is now Q,
[119]
stated in February 2019 that she was losing patience in
Trump to arrest the supposed members of the child sex ring,
suggesting that the time was approaching for "vigilante
justice."
[120]
Other QAnon followers have adopted the Kennedy theory,
asserting that a Pittsburgh man named Vincent Fusca is
Kennedy in disguise and would be Trump's 2020 running mate.
Some attended 2019
Independence Day
celebrations in Washington expecting Kennedy to appear.
[121][122]
FBI domestic terrorism assessment
A May 30, 2019, FBI "Intelligence Bulletin" memo from the
Phoenix
Field Office identified QAnon-driven extremists as a
domestic terrorism
threat. The document cited a number of arrests related to
QAnon, some of which had not been publicized before.
[123]
According to the memo, "This is the first FBI product
examining the threat from conspiracy theory-driven domestic
extremists and provides a baseline for future intelligence
products. ... The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories
very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern
information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups
and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent
acts."
[123][124]
According to FBI's counterterrorism director Michael G.
McGarrity's testimony before Congress in May, the FBI
divides domestic terrorism threats into four primary
categories, "racially motivated violent extremism,
anti-government/anti-authority extremism, animal
rights/environmental extremism, and abortion extremism,"
which includes both pro-choice and anti-abortion extremists.
The fringe conspiracy theory threat is closely related to
the anti-government/anti-authority subject area.
[123][124]
An under-reported QAnon-related incident was mentioned in
the memo: the December 19, 2018, arrest of a California man
whose car contained bomb-making materials he intended to use
to "blow up a satanic temple monument" in the
Springfield, Illinois
Capitol rotunda to "make Americans aware of Pizzagate and
the
New World Order, who were dismantling society." According to the same
source, the FBI said another factor driving the intensity of
this threat is “the uncovering of real conspiracies or
cover-ups involving illegal, harmful, or unconstitutional
activities by government officials or leading political
figures.”
[123]
QAnon followers' reactions included the suggestion the memo
was fake, calling for the firing of
FBI Director
Christopher A. Wray
for working against Trump, and the idea that the memo was
actually a "wink-and-a-nod" way of attracting attention to
QAnon and tricking the media into asking Trump about it.
[125]
At a Trump reelection rally several hours after the memo's
existence became known,
WalkAway campaign
founder Brandon Straka, a gay man who claims to have been a
liberal Democrat but is now a Trump supporter, addressed the
crowd using one of QAnon's primary rallying cries, "Where we
go one, we go all". A videographer found numerous QAnon
supporters in the crowd, identified by their QAnon shirts
showing large "Q"'s or "WWG1WGA".
[23]
Role in U.S. elections
2019 congressional candidates
Two people who declared themselves as Republican
congressional candidates in 2019 expressed interest in QAnon
theories. Matthew Lusk, a Florida candidate, told
The Daily Beast
he was not a "brainwashed cult member," saying QAnon
theories are a "legitimate something" and constitute a "very
articulate screening of past events, a very articulate
screening of present conditions, and a somewhat prophetic
divination of where the political and geopolitical ball will
be bouncing next."
[126]
Danielle Stella, running as a Republican to unseat
Ilhan Omar
in Minnesota, wore a "Q" necklace in a photo she tweeted
[127]
and twice used the hashtag #WWG1WGA, a reference to the
QAnon motto "where we go one, we go all." Her Twitter
account "liked" responses from QAnon believers who
acknowledged the necklace, and the account follows some
prominent QAnon believers. A former campaign aide asserted
that Stella was merely posing as a QAnon believer to attract
voter support.
[128][129]
Incidents related to Trump's 2020 campaign
Man wearing "We Are Q" shirt at Trump rally in New Hampshire
QAnon supporters claim that they were asked to cover up
their "Q" identifiers and other QAnon-related symbols at a
Trump campaign rally in
Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. Although one person who was asked to
turn his "Q" shirt inside out when he entered the rally
identified the person who asked him to do so as a
Secret Service
agent, the agency denied this, saying in an email to
The Washington Post, "The U.S. Secret Service did not request, or require,
attendees to change their clothing at an event in New
Hampshire." QAnon supporters also claim that their
visibility at Trump rallies has been suppressed for
months.
[130]
In August 2019, a video posted online by "Women for Trump"
late in July was reported to include "Q"s on two campaign
signs. The first sign, which said "
Make America Great Again", had a "Q" taped to it in the corner. The other side,
"Women for Trump" had the "O"s in "Women" and "for" pasted
over with "Q"s. The images which included the altered signs
were clearly taken at a Trump campaign rally, which have
increasingly attracted adherents of the QAnon conspiracy
theory, so it is unknown if those particular signs were
selected for inclusion deliberately or not.
[131]
The video has since been taken down.
[132]
In July 2020,
Business Insider
reported that according to
Media Matters for America, a left-leaning media monitoring group, Trump's reelection campaign relied on a network of
QAnon-related accounts to spread disinformation and
propaganda on social media, especially Twitter. An
analysis of 380,000 tweets sent between early April and
the end of May 2020, and another of the most popular words
used by 1,000 accounts, showed that the QAnon network "is
playing a key role in generating and spreading Trump's
propaganda."
[133]
The Washington Post reported at the beginning of August 2020
that adverts for Trump's campaign had shown images of
supporters with prominent QAnon merchandise. Thousands of
comments on YouTube saw these details as signs of victory.
[42]
Other 2020 electoral candidates
Jo Rae Perkins, the 2020 Republican Senate candidate in Oregon, tweeted a
video on the night of her May primary victory showing her
holding a WWG1WGA sticker and stating, "I stand with
President Trump. I stand with Q and the team. Thank you
Anons, and thank you patriots. And together, we can save our
republic.” She expressed regret at having later deleted the
video on the advice of a political consultant.
[134][135][136]
The next month she tweeted a video of her taking the
"digital soldiers oath" that Q had requested followers to do
three days earlier.
[137][138]
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman, won an August 2020 runoff to become the
GOP nominee in the heavily Republican
14th Congressional District in Georgia. Months into the Trump presidency, she had stated in a
video: "There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take
this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I
think we have the president to do it."
[139]
She has made racist and anti-Semitic statements, which
resulted in Republican leaders such as
Kevin McCarthy
and
Steve Scalise
to condemn her remarks.
[140][141]
Trump endorsed her candidacy the day after her nomination,
characterizing her as a "future Republican Star" and "a real
WINNER!"
[142][143]
In September 2020, political newcomer Lauren Witzke defeated
another candidate endorsed by the Republican party to become
the GOP's nominee for U.S. Senate in Delaware. Witzke has
promoted QAnon on Twitter and been photographed wearing a Q
t-shirt, although during the campaign she distanced herself
from the movement. She has also called herself a
"flat-earther" and in September called her Democratic
opponent
Chris Coons
a "Christian-hating baby-killer," adding, "I’m coming for
your seat, Satanist."
[148][149]
Angela Stanton-King, a Trump-backed candidate running for the Georgia House
seat of the late congressman
John Lewis, posted on Twitter that
Black Lives Matter
is "a major cover up for PEDOPHILIA and HUMAN TRAFFICKING"
and "THE STORM IS HERE." Stanton-King told a reporter that
her posts did not relate to QAnon, asserting, "It was
raining that day." Weather records did not show
precipitation in her area on the day of the post.
[150][151]
Texas Republican Party slogan
In August 2020, The New York Times suggested that the Texas
Republican Party had chosen a new slogan taken directly from
QAnon. Texas Republican Party officials strongly denied this
and claimed that the slogan ("We Are the Storm”) was
inspired by a biblical passage and has no connection to
QAnon.
[152][153]
Congressional resolution
The resolution also urged the FBI and other law enforcement
and homeland security agencies "to continue to strengthen
their focus on preventing violence, threats, harassment, and
other criminal activity by extremists motivated by fringe
political conspiracy theories" and encouraged the
U.S. Intelligence Community
"to uncover any foreign support, assistance, or online
amplification QAnon receives, as well as any QAnon
affiliations, coordination, and contacts with foreign
extremist organizations or groups espousing violence."
[155]
In September 2020, Malinowski received death threats from
QAnon followers after he was falsely accused of wanting to
protect sexual predators. The threats were prompted by a
National Republican Congressional Committee
(NRCC) campaign advertisement that falsely claimed that
Malinowski worked against plans to increase registration for
sex offenders in a 2006 crime bill while he was working as a
lobbyist for
Human Rights Watch.
[156][157][158]
The resolution passed on October 2, 2020, in a 371–18
vote.
[155][156]
Seventeen Republicans (including
Steve King,
Paul A. Gosar, and
Daniel Webster) and one independent (
Justin Amash) voted no; Republican
Andy Harris
voted "present."
[155][156][159]
The resolution does not have the force of law.
[159]
Before the vote, Malinowski told
Slate
magazine, referencing the NRCC ad: "I don't want to see any
Republicans voting against fire on the House floor this week
and then continuing to play with fire next week by running
these kinds of ads against Democratic candidates."
[160]
Comments by Trump and connected individuals
Donald Trump
According to analysis by
Media Matters, as of August 20, 2020,
Trump had amplified QAnon messaging at least 216 times by
retweeting or mentioning 129 QAnon-affiliated Twitter
accounts, sometimes multiple times a day.[25][26]
On September 9, 2019, Trump retweeted a video from the
QAnon-promoting
Twitter
account "The Dirty Truth". The video featured future
Director of National Intelligence
John Ratcliffe
criticizing former
FBI
director
James Comey.[161]
On August 24, 2018, Trump hosted
William "Lionel" Lebron, a leading QAnon promoter, in the
Oval Office
for a
photo op.[162][163][164]
Shortly after Christmas 2019, Trump retweeted over a dozen
QAnon followers.[165]
On August 19, 2020, Trump was asked about QAnon during a
press conference; he replied: "I don't know much about the
movement, other than I understand they like me very much,
which I appreciate. But I don't know much about the
movement."
[166][167]
An FBI Field Office in Phoenix has called QAnon a potential
domestic terror
threat, but Trump called QAnon adherents "people who love
our country".
[168][169]
When a reporter asked Trump if he could support a theory
that says he "is secretly saving the world from this satanic
cult of pedophiles and cannibals," he responded: "Well, I
haven't heard that, but is that supposed to be a bad thing
or a good thing?" Presidential candidate
Joe Biden
responded that Trump was aiming to "legitimize a conspiracy
theory that the FBI has identified as a domestic terrorism
threat".
[5][170]
On October 15, 2020, when given the opportunity to denounce
QAnon at a "town hall"-style campaign event, Trump refused
to do so and instead pointed out that QAnon opposes
pedophilia.
[171]
He said he knew nothing else about QAnon and told his
questioner,
Savannah Guthrie
of
NBC News, that no one can know whether the premise of QAnon's
conspiracy theory is true. "They believe it is a satanic
cult run by the deep state," Guthrie informed him. "No, I
don’t know that. And neither do you know that," Trump
responded.
[172]
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