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A New Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory With The Same Old Cast Of Characters
In the QAnon universe, people like Hillary Clinton and George Soros are unbelievably busy.
Their days are filled with funding immigrant caravans, being hanged at Guantanamo Bay, running child sex rings in the basements of basement-less pizzarias, paying people to protest former President Donald Trump’s election.
While the churn of new conspiracy theories in the QAnon universe is constant, the characters are often recycled. The same timeworn villains turn up again and again as the antagonists of new supposed crimes and schemes, even when their motivations beyond a general “behaving evilly” are foggy at best.
Anthony Fauci, now chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, is one of these figures. He was the initial face of the United States’ response to COVID-19, and denizens of the fever swamps have long claimed that he is implicated in a vast number of QAnon conspiracy theories.
The conspiracy theorists fingered Fauci as the key player (alongside Hillary Clinton) working to use the COVID-19 pandemic to destroy the economy and undermine Trump’s reelection. There are many offshoots of that central theory in the QAnon world: Fauci actually made the virus; he was arrested for his part in the plot; he met up with former President Barack Obama and Melinda Gates in a lab in Wuhan; he was the original CEO of Moderna which was founded by Soros and invested in by Jeffrey Epstein.
Now he’s emerging again as the central villain in a new conspiracy theory percolating in the QAnon community and its distributaries, including Fox News.
The conspiracy theory gained traction when a QAnon Twitter account tweeted a graphic — originally posted to the fringe right-wing social network Gab — comparing maps of the Russian airstrikes to supposed “US biolabs in Ukraine.”
This blossomed into a full-fledged conspiracy theory that Russian President Vladmir Putin, often assisted by Trump, is really just trying to destroy those labs where the U.S. and Ukraine are developing lethal bioweapons. Trump, the most prolific hero of these stories, may have even been warning us for months in code. QAnoners believe that Fauci, specifically, is using the labs to cook up a sequel to the COVID-19 virus — perhaps, as the Kremlin itself recently suggested, a bird flu. Something bad and infectious, at any rate.
Even for a QAnon conspiracy, this one is weak. It exists in the same universe where COVID-19 was also designed as a bioweapon in a U.S.-funded lab in China, and where all ambiguously termed “biolabs” are developing weapons. (In reality, many are devoted to the study of diseases, though none in Ukraine have the international rating reserved for laboratories studying the most deadly and infectious illnesses.)
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