Getting Closer!!!!!
As Yahoo News reported Thursday, an internal FBI memo has identified the fringe conspiracy theory group QAnon as a domestic terrorist threat. Just two days earlier, President Trump posted messages on Twitter promoting two accounts linked to the shadowy network.
On Tuesday, Trump tagged the user @Voteridplease, whose account often promotes QAnon conspiracy theories when promoting stricter voter ID laws.
We should immediately pass Voter ID @Voteridplease to insure the safety and sanctity of our voting system. Also, Paper Ballots as backup (old fashioned but true!). Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2019
Later that same day, the president retweeted a post from another QAnon supporter identified as Lynn Thomas, who posted a graphic that called Democrats “THE TRUE ENEMIES OF AMERICA!”
A Twitter account linking itself to QAnon celebrated the president’s attention.
Conspiracy No More! https://t.co/lSI16Vfb6T
— QAnon ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🇺🇸 (@qanon76) July 30, 2019
But hours after Trump’s retweet, Twitter suspended the account purported to belong to Thomas, saying the user had violated the site’s terms of service. In the past week, the account had pushed a QAnon conspiracy theory claiming that Democrats murdered and ate children.
Trump himself was mentioned in an FBI Intelligence Bulletin obtained by Yahoo News that explains the origins of the QAnon phenomenon. According to the memo, the group’s mythical founder, purportedly a former U.S. government official known as Q, “posts classified information online to reveal a covert effort, led by President Trump, to dismantle a conspiracy involving ‘deep state’ actors and global elites allegedly engaged in an international child sex trafficking ring.”
In a 2018 interview with the Yahoo News podcast “Bots & Ballots,” Washington Post senior editor Marc Fisher further explained the crossover between Trump and QAnon.
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