Rather than condemn the QAnon conspiracy theory, Trump elevates its dangerous central assertion

GUTHRIE: Let me ask you another thing.

TRUMP: Let’s waste a whole show. You start off with white supremacy, I denounce it. You start off with something else — let’s go. Keep asking me these questions.

GUTHRIE: OK. I do have one more in this vein.

TRUMP: Let me just — let me just tell you, what I do hear about it, is they are very strongly against pedophilia. And I agree with that. I mean, I do agree with that. And I agree with it very strongly.

GUTHRIE: But there is not a Satanic pedophile cult being run by—

TRUMP: I have no idea. I know nothing about it.

GUTHRIE: You don’t know that?

TRUMP: No, I don’t know that. And neither do you know that.

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