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I am not making this up. So, when Trump has been occasionally asked to weigh in on QAnon — a sprawling, bizarre web of conspiracy theories centered dually on the existence of a massive sex-trafficking ring and on Trump as national savior — he has generally declined to be critical of its adherents. …
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There was a time when Kevin Van Ausdal had not yet been called a “loser” and “a disgrace” and hustled out of Georgia. He had not yet punched a wall, or been labeled a “communist,” or a person “who’d probably cry like a baby if you put a gun in his face.” He did not yet know who was going to be the …
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The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter’s insights By Ashley Parker, The question from NBC’s Savannah Guthrie should have been an easy one. Would President Trump denounce QAnon, the broad and outlandish conspiracy theory that, as she put it, argues that “Democrats are a satanic …
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But Trump’s response to a question from moderator Savannah Guthrie offered a shot of validation from the central figure in the QAnon cosmology, which portrays the president a savior waging a secret war against a cabal of satanic pedophiles, supposedly including prominent Democrats and Hollywood …
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President Trump’s refusal to disavow the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory in Thursday night’s nationally televised town hall event cheered members of the far-right community, who regarded his comments as an endorsement of their movement. “This was the biggest pitch for QANON I’ve ever seen,” an …
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By Angela Haupt, As the novel coronavirus began to spread, so did the idea that 5G networks were to blame — or Bill Gates, or a ring of satanic pedophiles trying to divert attention from itself. Perhaps the virus was created in a lab as a bioweapon, or by pharmaceutical companies to boost sales of …
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By Angela Haupt, As the novel coronavirus began to spread, so did the idea that 5G networks were to blame — or Bill Gates, or a ring of satanic pedophiles trying to divert attention from itself. Perhaps the virus was created in a lab as a bioweapon, or by pharmaceutical companies to boost sales of …
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By Angela Haupt, As the novel coronavirus began to spread, so did the idea that 5G networks were to blame — or Bill Gates, or a ring of satanic pedophiles trying to divert attention from itself. Perhaps the virus was created in a lab as a bioweapon, or by pharmaceutical companies to boost sales of …
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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 …
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By Meagan Flynn, Parker Michels-Boyce For The Washington Post Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) speaks with reporters during the GOP convention at Tree of Life Ministries in Lynchburg, Va., on June 13. Outgoing Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) is condemning President Trump’s amplification of a false …
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