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"It was a drug": Capitol riot exposes reach of QAnon disinformation
By MAJOR GARRETT CBS NEWS January 31, 2021, 7:30 AM
Democrats this week called for the expulsion of first-term Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia for repeating anti-Semitic tropes and amplifying dangerous – and discredited – QAnon conspiracy theories.
False allegations of mass election fraud — disinformation that Greene perpetuated — helped fuel the deadly Capitol insurrection.
"President Trump did not cause the attack on the Capitol on January 6th," Greene said at a town hall on January 28.
For his part, former President Trump has sidestepped QAnon, claiming he knows little about a movement at the core of his support.
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