How the GOP learned to love QAnon

MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania — At first glance, John Sabal doesn't fit the profile of a typical Republican foot soldier. He's not a fan of Big Business, and before 2016 he'd never voted for a Republican president.

The 30-year-old salesman and Navy veteran — who was in grade school in Philadelphia when the 9/11 terror attacks happened — believes that President George W. Bush secretly collaborated with foreign powers to take down the Twin Towers and murder 3,000 Americans as a pretext to start a war "for profit" and impose mass domestic surveillance.

But on an overcast Saturday in late September, Sabal and his girlfriend posted up under a white tent in the parking lot outside a Donald Trump campaign rally near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to show their undying support for the current Republican president.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-qanon-infiltrated-the-gop-2020-10

Celebrities Call Out Trump for His QAnon Answer During Last Night's Town Hall

Many celebrities have criticized President Donald Trump following his Thursday night town hall on NBC, when he dodged a question about the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory.

When NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie summarized the theory to Trump ("Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are the savior of that"), she also asked him to say that it's not true and to disavow the conspiracy. "I know nothing about QAnon," Trump responded.

When Guthrie said that she'd just told him the main points of the theory, Trump responded, "You told me, but what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it fact."

https://www.newsweek.com/celebrities-rob-reiner-katie-couric-trump-qanon-town-hall-1539844