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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQAnon started the 'pizzagate' hoax and latched onto the 'Epstein files' as chaos agents against Democrats
...despite all of the clear indications that it's actually Trump who is hiding something incriminating behind his long, close relationship with Epstein- his obsequious DOJ in full control of the files, documents, videotapes, and other evidence- OAnon is plowing right ahead behind the liar-in-chief as if their ultra-intelligence operation can't see the truth right in front of them; can't see Trump's personal attorney interfering in an actual conviction of one of the top perps in the child sex scheme.
QAnon is now bro-posting homilies to herr Trump, which leads to the obvious conclusion that they're not the least bit interested in any truth; don't possess any truth; and are co-conspiring chaos agents who are now helping Trump dodge his own complicity or guilt involving Epstein's criminal depravities.
...today:
"Be the calm in the storm," the meme's text read. "We all knew this day would come."
The image, which was posted by the Spiritual Streetfighter17 account, shows Trump staring straight ahead with a stylized "Q" and a cross on his shirt collar, underlining the reference to the QAnon theme of "the storm," which the conspiracy theorists believe will be a day of reckoning when the "Deep State" will be brought to justice and imprisoned and possibly executed at Guantanamo Bay.
The right-wing conspiracy movement is based on the idea that Trump has been waging a war against a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who control the world and run a global child sex trafficking ring. Adherents believe those "Deep State" actors should be exposed and punished for their supposed crimes.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-qanon-epstein/
...background
____In early 2025, a federal court unsealed portions of the court documents. While names of some of the alleged clients and victims were released, many were redacted or withheld.
Epsteins arrest and death became a central focus for QAnon followers, who saw them as proof of a hidden global elite engaged in child trafficking and protected by powerful institutions.
The release or withholding of the Epstein files is often cited within QAnon movement circles as evidence of a broader cover-up by the so-called deep state.
Some followers of the MAGA Make America Great Again movement and the Republican Party believe in the false claim that the United States is secretly controlled by a cabal of elites who are paedophiles, sex traffickers and satanists.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-rise-of-the-qanon-conspiracy-and-why-the-epstein-files-matter/ar-AA1J0xq2
___QAnon purports that America is run by a cabal of pedophiles and Satan-worshippers who run a global child sex-trafficking operation and that former President Trump is the only person who can stop them. The information supposedly comes from a high-ranking government official who posts cryptic clues on 4chan and the even more unfettered site 8chan under the name "Q."
It claims the military, supposedly eager to see the deep state overthrown, recruited Donald Trump to run for the president. But the deep state, which controls the media, quickly tried to smear him through "fake news" and unfounded allegations of collusion with Russia. It goes on to insist that despite the deep state's best efforts, however, Mr. Trump is winning, and that Q is releasing sanctioned leaks to the public in order to galvanize them ahead of "The Storm," which is the moment when the deep state's leaders are arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay. QAnon believers have called this process "The Great Awakening."
The storm takes its name from then-President Trump's enigmatic comment from October 2018 about "the calm before the storm." Q began posting soon after and said that the storm Mr. Trump referenced is a coming series of mass arrests that would end the deep state forever.
When those dates come and go without any arrests, Q says that they needed to be delayed for one reason or another, but that Mr. Trump still has the situation well in hand.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-the-qanon-conspiracy-theory/#:~:text=QAnon%20purports%20that%20America
...it's been clear from the start that QAnon's campaigns against child sex rings have been nothing but a republican tool to sow suspicion against Democrats in a desperate projection of their own party's leader's degeneracy and criminality.
Now they're out in front of everyone running interference for the person they insisted would reveal everything; the very person who is now blocking everything; just ignoring Trump's personal lawyer and republicans edging closer to pardoning the child sexual predator.
And they're pushing forward with their 'mass arrest' propaganda, arm and arm today with what everyone can see is Trump's attempt to divert from his own incriminating statements in Scotland and whatever he's hiding from the American people about Epstein.
We've found the 'deep state,' and it actually consists of the very people who've been clamoring for a decade that they want to end it. Total psych-op.
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AntiFascist
(13,580 posts)the real "Deep State" involves Russian money laundering and all the criminality that comes with that, including some very well-placed Russian assets.
Norrrm
(2,544 posts)Initech
(105,781 posts)
mzmolly
(52,385 posts)Always was IMO.