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TexasTowelie

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Wed Jul 7, 2021, 12:05 AM Jul 2021

CPAC Is Coming to Dallas This Weekend. Will QAnon Be on the Program?

At the last Conservative Political Action Conference, Republicans went full-on QAnon, with some speakers promoting election fraud conspiracies and calling on authorities to investigate Democrat-run cannibalistic pedophile rings. There’s no evidence of either.

QAnon’s place in the GOP is less certain these days. Some members, including the party’s top dog, former President Donald Trump, seem to be distancing themselves from the conspiracy theory, while others continue to embrace it, or at least some facets of it.

CPAC is coming to Dallas this weekend, and the list of speakers is a mixed bag of conservatives with and without connections to the QAnon conspiracy theory. July 9-11, conservatives will be at Dallas’ Hilton Anatole hotel, where the American Conservative Union is holding "America UnCanceled."

The conspiracy theory revolves around the idea that the so-called “deep state” is controlled by pedophile Hollywood elites and powerful Democratic politicians, all of whom are supposedly acting against the former president. Trump, they say, is the only one who can stop the mass child sex-trafficking plot.

Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/will-qanon-be-featured-at-dallas-cpac-12048972

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CPAC Is Coming to Dallas This Weekend. Will QAnon Be on the Program? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP
Will that pillow d-bag be there? RainCaster Jul 2021 #1

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