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Donald Trump gave new hope to QAnon’s conspiracy theorists who believe he is waging a secret war against a deep state of pedophile cannibals by saying he would be willing to help them “save the world”.
Asked at his daily press conference what he thinks about the QAnon movement, the president said he did not know much about it, other than that they “really like him, which I appreciate”.
At the crux of the theory is a belief that the president is secretly working to save the world from a satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals. When asked if that was something he was behind, Mr. Trump said he was willing to put himself “out there” to help.
‘I have not heard that yet, but should that be a bad thing or a good thing? You know, if I can help save the world from some problems, then I’m ready to do it, I’m ready to put myself out there, ”Mr Trump said.
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“And we are, in fact, we are saving the world from a radical leftist philosophy that will destroy this country, and if this country is gone the rest of the world would follow.”
The Biden campaign said Mr Trump’s response to QAnon was another example of the president “voting for violence”.
“After neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville shouted ‘fine people’ and traced fierce protesters to the assassination of George Floyd, Donald Trump simply sought to legitimize a conspiracy theory that the FBI identified as a threat to domestic terrorism,” the campaign said. Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.
The pro-Trump supporters of the QAnon theory have continued to grow since he was elected president, often attending his rallies with “Q” shirts.
The first time Mr Trump was asked about QAnon during a White House press conference last week, he refused to address the conspiracy directly. When asked about one of the proponents of the theory, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who won the Republican primary for the 14th Congressional District of Georgia, Mr. Trump congratulated her, but quickly went ahead with the next question.
When asked again on Wednesday, the president said that although he does not know much about the movement, he does know that they are people who love the country and do not like it as it is.
“I’ve heard it’s gaining in popularity and from what I hear, these are people who when they look at the streets of Portland when they look at what’s happened in the last six or seven months in New York City, but this started even four years ago when I came here, “he said.
“These are people who don’t like what’s going on in places like Portland and places like Chicago, and New York and other cities and states.”
Mr Trump’s Republican primary opponent in 2016, Jeb Bush, was also quick to point to the president for his apparent embrace of conspiracy theory.
“Why would the president in the world not turn the butts of Q’anon supporters on? Ut jobs, racists, haters have no place in any of the Parties,” Mr Bush said in a tweet.
Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Various theories claim that Q is a former intelligence officer, a group of people or maybe even Mr. Trump himself.
It has become increasingly mainstream in the run-up to Mr. Trump’s president, with several Republican candidates identifying themselves with it.
QAnon is linked to the infamous Pizzagate conspiracy, which claimed that Hillary Clinton and others ran a pedophile ring from the basement of a DC restaurant.
In 2016, a heavily armed North Carolina man drove to the restaurant to free the children he believed were trapped and opened fire there. However, the restaurant did not have a cellar and there were no children. The gunman, Edgar Maddison Welch, was sentenced to four years in prison. He apologized for his actions and said he had made an “incredibly ill-advised decision”.
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