Trump's Gone Full QAnon. There's No Point in Denying It Anymore.

[Celerity]

The former president is actively courting QAnon supporters on social media and at his rallies.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-gone-full-qanon-theres-no-point-in-denying-it-anymore



Former President Donald Trump has boosted content from accounts that support QAnon conspiracy theories on his Truth Social platform at an accelerated rate, ever since the FBI searched the Florida country club resort he calls home. In doing so, Trump has at last obliterated any of the plausible deniability previously afforded to him in his prior crossovers with the false conspiracy theory’s followers. It’s no accident that QAnon supporters are using the former president’s social media platform, Truth Social. Appealing to them was an explicitly stated strategy to build out its user base.

Media Matters senior researcher Alex Kaplan chronicled efforts by CEO and former congressman Devin Nunes and one-time board member and Trump administration official Kash Patel to court the community, including the early promotion of an account that appeared to be emulating the pseudonymous author, “Q”—the heart of the QAnon movement.

Truth Social has verified 47 QAnon-promoting accounts with more than 10,000 followers each, according to an analysis by NewsGuard. By Kaplan’s count, Trump has used his Truth Social account on the platform to boost at least 50 distinct QAnon-supporting accounts to his more than 4 million followers.

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Kaplan, in a phone interview, said QAnon content “plays a significant role in Truth Social’s ecosystem” and that Trump’s sharing of content from QAnon accounts since the FBI executed a search of Mar-a-Lago echoes his history of doing the same on Twitter before he was banned. Trump had shared posts from QAnon accounts prior to the FBI search, but Kaplan said the saturation of such content on his Truth Social feed has been particularly high since the search.

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[Dorian Gray]

1. Thanks for sharing this article

because it makes me nervous. I personally think that the Qanoners are unstable people who can easily be led into violence, which is one of the reasons he may be courting them.

But I don't think that's his actual primary intention. I think his primary intention is to keep the money coming in. It's a grift. He thinks that the Qanon people will easily be led to fund his campaigns and fund-begging. If he gets that, it's worth it. If they go to war for him, even better (in his mind).

[Samrob]

2. And there is no point in not indicting him now and stopping him cold!. nt

[CrispyQ]

4. Millions of us are asking why that hasn't been done yet.

DOJ CONTACT PAGE
https://www.justice.gov/contact-us

I've contacted them twice this week. Will it do any good? IDK, but it takes less than 5 minutes.

[rubbersole]

3. tfg realized where the grift pays the most.

The Bank of Q. They'll stay loyal even after he's been proven to have sold the most sensitive of our state secrets to our worst enemies. Fuck 'em.

[Ohioboy]

5. You're right about that. They will support him if he sold secrets.

I met a Q follower that thinks Trump and Putin are working together to save the world.

[rubbersole]

7. It's easy to see why the repubs want to defund public education.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. He's a dangerous cult leader w/followers willing to follow & obey. We've seen it before. nt

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. Simply put, the QAnon theories boost IQ45's fragile but precious EGO

He's portrayed in their lore as some kind of super-hero, so naturally ... he gets off on these sycophant's adulation of him.

The fact that they represent a money source definitely doesn't hurt in his mind, but the main thing in play is ... he likes and promotes them cause they say nice things about him ... and he's giant man-baby snowflake.

[IcyPeas]

9. I remember someone asking about QAnon support during a press conference in August 2020:

“I don’t know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate,” Trump said at a White House press briefing.
...
“So I don’t know really anything about it other than they do supposedly like me and they also would like to see problems in these areas – like, especially the areas that we’re talking about – go away.”

A reporter then informed Trump that QAnon actually involves “this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this Satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals.”

Trump replied, “Well, I haven’t heard that,” before spinning that definition of the conspiracy into a positive view of his administration.

“But is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing? If I can help save the world from problems, I’m willing to do it. I’m willing to put myself out there,” Trump said.