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The “#Storm” envisioned on far-right message boards had arrived. And two women who had died in the rampage — both QAnon devotees — had become what some were calling the first martyrs of the cause. The siege ended with police retaking the Capitol and Trump being rebuked and losing his Twitter …
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By Amy Gardner and Matt Zapotosky, The acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, whose predecessor abruptly resigned one week ago after President Trump complained officials were not doing enough to find election fraud in the state, declared on a call with his staff Monday that …
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Twitter’s purge Monday marked its latest effort to combat the rise of QAnon, a conspiracy theory that loosely revolves around the idea that an anonymous government official, known as Q, wages war against the so-called deep state that has sought to undermine President Trump. Trump himself in the …
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The site’s generally far-right political discussion can range from memes to baseless conspiracy theories (One typical example reads, “What if it can be proven the storming of the Capitol was a Soros-funded operation of Antifa infiltrators who coordinated with corrupt police and politicians?”) to …
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The policy change was a turnabout for Amazon, following last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol. On Monday morning, shoppers could have their pick of T-shirts bearing the “We Are Q” slogan, baseball hats with the QAnon motto “Where we go one we go all,” and even onesies for babies with President …
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Amazon’s continued sale of products that support, or even glorify QAnon, is “alarming, but not altogether surprising,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, which tracks extremism nationwide. Historically, Amazon’s approach to addressing the sale of hateful …
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By Michael Scherer, Matt McClain The Washington Post A U.S. Capitol police officer is seen through a broken window on the east front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C. The essay reads like the manifesto of a delusional conspiracy theorist — claiming that President Trump would …
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By Robert Barnes, As expected, the Supreme Court refused Monday to fast-track a batch of challenges to the presidential election filed by President Trump and his allies. The rejections came without comment or noted dissent and were formal notifications of what already had become clear. Some of the …
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By Paul Farhi, Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post Crowds gather on the Mall for a speech Wednesday by President Trump that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol. After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America’s largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt …
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By Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Josh Dawsey and Reis Thebault, http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/fact-checking-trumps-georgia-rally/2021/01/04/11956a8f-dc7c-469e-9ae2-c1f3c9678364_video.html ATLANTA — A few days after the presidential election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called …
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