After skirting the issue for weeks, President Trump has offered an embrace of the fringe internet phenomenon QAnon, praising its followers for supporting him and shrugging off its outlandish conspiracies.
His comments reflected the highest-profile endorsement to date of the group, which has infiltrated Republican circles even as party leaders attempt to distance themselves."I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate," Trump said in the White House briefing room.
The congressional candidates who have embraced the baseless QAnon conspiracy theoryAsked if he believed the crux of the theory, described by a reporter as the belief that the President"is secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals," Trump said:"Well, I haven't heard that, but is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing?""If I can help save the world from problems, I'm willing to do it," he went on.
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