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Pro-Trump Republican Candidate Promotes ‘QAnon’ Hoax
A Republican congressional candidate believes that a secret ring of pedophiles is controlling world events.
Matthew Lusk is currently running unopposed in the nomination for Florida’s 5th Congressional District, the seat currently held by Rep. Al Lawson (D-FL). In the most recent election, Rep. Lawson easily defeated his Republican challenger 66.8 percent to 33.2 percent.
Lusk is a believer in the so-called “QAnon” conspiracy theory, a collection of oddball beliefs shared amongst diehard Trump fans. They believe that Trump is the ringleader in a vast, underground war against sex traffickers hidden within American politics and the Hollywood elite.
Online QAnon posts are a “legitimate something,” Lusk told the Daily Beast.
He has a section of his official website dedicated to “Q,” the supposed leader of the belief, who some believe is JFK Jr. The son of President John F. Kennedy actually died in a tragic 1999 plane crash.
Lusk also told the site he is worried about being “Arkancided.” That is a reference to a long-running and absurd conspiracy theory on the right — popularized by figures like radio host Rush Limbaugh— that Bill and Hillary Clinton have literally murdered their political rivals.
Nearly 50 deaths have been falsely attributed to the Clintons over the years.
Lusk’s embrace of conspiracy reflects the mental state of the Republican Party under Trump’s leadership.
Trump is a dedicated conspiracy theorist and over the years he has professed oddball beliefs with alarming regularity. Trump pushed the racist lie that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, claimed climate change is a Chinese hoax, said Hillary Clinton defeated him in the popular vote due to “illegal” votes and insists that a “deep state” conspiracy is out to get him.
Trump’s team has helped fan the flames of the QAnon conspiracy by giving out White House press credentials to a pro-QAnon site, and QAnon signs and hand gestures have become a staple of Trump’s feverish campaign rallies.
Conspiracy theories were once confined to the fevered swamps, away from the Republican Party’s mainstream. But now they are the party’s lifeblood, and candidates across the country have bought into the absurdity.
https://www.nationalmemo.com/pro-trump-republican-candidate-promotes-qanon-hoax/
Sarah Sanders: Trump not wishing 'violence toward anyone' with 9/11 tweet
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Sunday that President Trump is not wishing "ill will" nor "violence toward anyone" after he tweeted a video showing images from the Sept. 11 attacks combined with remarks Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) gave at a recent speech.
"Certainly the president is wishing no ill will, and certainly not violence towards anyone,” Sanders said on ABC’s “This Week."
“But the president is absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her not only one time but history of anti-Semitic comments," she added.
Trump on Friday tweeted the video, which showed the burning World Trade Center towers and Omar saying at a speech last month at the Council on American-Islamic Relations that CAIR was founded because "some people did something" and Muslims "were starting to lose access to our civil liberties."
Omar, one of the first women elected to Congress, has been accused of anti-Semitic comments by her critics.
"It's absolutely abhorrent the comments she continues to make and has made and (Democrats) look the other way,” Sanders added on Sunday. “I find what her comments to be absolutely disgraceful and unbefitting of a member of Congress and I think that it's a good thing that the president is calling her out for those comments, and the big question is why aren't Democrats doing it as well."
Democratic presidential candidates have criticized Trump’s tweet.
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke called it "an incitement to violence."
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said it was "vicious, crass” and “disgusting."
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/438806-sarah-sanders-trump-not-wishing-violence-toward-anyone-with-9-11
this was discussed over several breads last night.
I think it may have already been added as a notable.
A lot of people were posting to secret service about it.
Total BS that this was allowed on Television.
no apology necessary….it's good to bring back up for the morning crowd who may not have seen it.
Good that you did post when you saw it….as they say, "see something, say something".
This really pissed me off last night. Blatant….
good god look at those teeth!
it was deleted from notables?
Last night was crazy…..I was having trouble trying to figure out what was going on.
Very shilly….I finally had to just go to bed.
Board was stuck….I posted two different posts, and apparently they didn't go through.
Anyone else have that problem?
What happened?
>In the mean time, it looks like people will need to suck it up and try actually talking to one another for a change.
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1117210604090142722
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1117186461420462083
I think they used to be friends, but Ginger has gone on and on about her hatred of Bill and Ann. So who knows?