Trump dodges question on QAnon conspiracy theory
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump on Friday twice ignored a question about whether he supports QAnon, a convoluted, right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theory.
A reporter asked the president about the theory at a White House briefing Friday after Trump tweeted his congratulations to a QAnon-supporting candidate. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who won her House primary runoff in Georgia this week, has called the theory something worth listening to and paying attention to and called its source, known as Q, a patriot. Trump praised her as a future Republican Star.
Well, she did very well in the election. She won by a lot. She was very popular and she comes from a great state and she had a tremendous victory. So absolutely, I did congratulate her, Trump said, sidestepping the question and ignoring a follow-up before moving on to another reporter.
Trump has a long history of advancing false and sometimes racist conspiracies, including on Thursday, when he gave credence to a highly-criticized op-ed that questioned Democrat Kamala Harris eligibility to serve as vice president even though she was born in Oakland, California.
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Archetypist
(218 posts)but a hypothesis, not that the QAnon crazies care. And I hesitate to even call it a hypothesis.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)Q explains nothing that exists in the real world, but provides an excuse for some really ugly behavior
Cirque du So-What
(25,988 posts)It doesnt even qualify as a coherent thought. It it pure-D codswollop.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Those who think HRC started a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza parlor that has no basement seem to fit the crackpot descriptor.
oldsoftie
(12,615 posts)Blue Owl
(50,514 posts)He always has been a bit... dodgy...