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Anonymous ID: f7c7ad Feb. 21, 2020, 9:21 p.m. No.8214124   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4135 >>4170

>>8214098

 

Lara Trump shared a video from one of the biggest QAnon accounts on the internet

 

The video was posted on YouTube by “JoeM,” who has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and is a devotee of the QAnon conspiracy theory (he co-authored a bestselling book about it). The theory has been tied to multiple violent incidents, including murder and attempted kidnapping, and it has been flagged by an FBI field office as a potential domestic terrorism threat.

 

JoeM, who uses the handle StormIsUponUs on Twitter and whose “introductory video” about QAnon is often used to introduce people to the conspiracy theory, has his own ties to extremism, bigotry, and harassment: Last April, the account instigated a baseless conspiracy theory that a California school fundraiser was somehow connected to former FBI Director James Comey, forcing the fundraiser to be cancelled. In May, after his Twitter account was briefly suspended, he used his Instagram account to instigate a harassment campaign against a woman. And last February, his QAnon introductory video was posted on the YouTube account of the parents of a man arrested for trying to burn down a pizzeria that was at the center of the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

 

This isn’t the first time people in Trump’s orbit – along with Trump himself – have amplified and interacted with QAnon accounts and their content.

 

Besides Lara Trump, other major figures who shared JoeM’s video – which has garnered more than 120,000 Facebook engagements and over 24,000 Twitter shares – included the following:

 

Brian Kolfage, who is known for running scams and a disinformation network that included Facebook pages that were eventually banned for “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

 

Ted Nugent, an NRA board member who previously shared JoeM’s QAnon introductory video while at the same time claiming to denounce QAnon.

 

Rep. Dan Meuser’s (R-PA) campaign Facebook page .

 

The New Mexico Republican Party’s Facebook page, along with the Facebook page for the state party's chairman and former Rep. Steve Pearce.

 

The Facebook pages for the Republican Party chapters of Comal County in Texas; Calvert County in Maryland; Wakulla County, St. Johns County, and Highlands County in Florida; Jefferson County in Alabama, El Paso County in Colorado, Cumberland County and Craven County in North Carolina, Snohomish County in Washington State, and Santa Barbara County in California.

Anonymous ID: f7c7ad Feb. 21, 2020, 9:35 p.m. No.8214271   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>8214240

When a man stands firm and remains unmoved in the front rank

and forgets all thoughts of disgraceful flight,

steeling his spirit and heart to endure,

and with words encourages the man standing next to him.

This is the man good in war.

  • Tyrtaeus (Spartan poet, 7th Century B.C.)