"I've heard these are people that love our country… so I don't know really anything about it, other than they do supposedly like me," Mr. Trump said.
Two recent House primary victories have given the fringe QAnon movement, a network of conspiracy theorists and extremists, a potential gateway to mainstream politics. President Trump was already aware of QAnon, though, as he indicated in late August.
Mostly, QAnon operates on fringe internet forums and through catchphrases and"clues" via social media. QAnon supporters showed up at Trump events in 2018, and recently at protests across the country that were ostensibly about child trafficking, NBC News reported. "What my concern is, from a party and a national dialogue perspective, is that we continue to just tack both parties to the extremes. And we're alienating the great number of Americans that just think, frankly, all of this is nuts," Kinzinger told CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes.
"They took it as validation," he told CBS News, pointing to Trump's history of retweeting accounts that support QAnon. He noted that one prominent QAnon figure posted that"Q" has been"absorbed into MAGA." She has peddled baseless theories like the Obama administration used the MS-13 gang to do its"dirty work" and kill Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Greene has also made inflammatory racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim comments, once equating the election of Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to an"Islamic invasion.""Never once during my campaign did I ever speak about QAnon, or 'Q,' she told Fox News.
Boebert and her campaign stress that she is not a QAnon supporter, acknowledging in July she was"very vague" in what she said about it before and that she's"not into conspiracies." Molly McKew, who independently researches and writes about disinformation, compared the Republican response to QAnon to Mr. Trump's declining to disavow an endorsement by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke during his 2016 campaign.
Congressman Cheri Bustos, Chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Washington Republican leaders"are legitimizing this dangerous conspiracy-- giving QAnon a platform by offering QAnon-aligned candidates RNC Convention speaking slots, House committee assignments, and financial support for their campaigns."
McKew said the decentralized structure and scale with Antifa blurs the comparison between the two. She pointed to Twitter having to shut down several accounts claiming to be Antifa that proved to be fake. On their supposed role in the protests, she pointed to arrests of right-wing activists looking to instigate violence.
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