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In a heated exchange with Savannah Guthrie of NBC News during Thursday’s forum, President Donald Trump once again refused to expose QAnon’s conspiracy theory.
Guthrie asked the president if he could claim that the conspiracy – centered on the belief that Democrats run a satanic pedophile ring and that Trump is an anti-pedophile savior – was not true.
Trump replied, “I don’t know anything about QAnon.”
“I just mentioned it to you,” Guthrie said.
Trump replied, “What you tell me does not necessarily make it fact.”
The president said that all he knows about the conspiracy theory movement, which has had a predominant presence at his campaign rallies, is that “they are very much against pedophilia” and that he agrees with that sentiment.
Trump also tried to break away from a recent retweet he made on a conspiracy theory from an account linked to QAnon, which unsubstantiated claims that former Vice President Joe Biden orchestrated the assassination of Seal Team Six to cover up the false death of Osama bin Laden.
“I don’t know anything about it,” Trump said. “That was a retweet, that was someone’s opinion. And that was a retweet. I’ll put it there. People can decide for themselves.
But Guthrie replied, ‘I don’t understand that. You are the president. You’re not like someone’s crazy uncle who can retweet anything. “
Trump has frequently used his social media platform to promote various accounts associated with QAnon and its theories. In August, he came to accept their support.
“I don’t know much about the movement, except that I understand that they like me very much, which I appreciate,” Trump said in August.
He has also defended his decision to back a Republican congressional candidate in Georgia with a history of promoting QAnon theories and making racist and anti-Semitic comments.
