How Donald Trump fuels QAnon cult that claims Biden killed JFK

January 30, 2024 qanon

Donald Trump paused for a moment as sombre music began to play. “Where we go one, we go all,” cried a heckler. Trump pursed his lips, appeared to identify the man in the crowd, nodded his head, then smiled.

This was no ordinary interjection on Trump’s all-conquering campaign trail through New Hampshire. The music, the raised finger salute of the heckler and the slogan are synonymous with QAnon, the sprawling conspiracy cult that emerged from online chatrooms in 2017 and has become an obsession for the US political right.

QAnon beliefs evolve with every change in the news cycle — from 9/11 “trutherism” to Covid vaccine scepticism — but at its core, followers are convinced that Trump is facing down a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping

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