QAnon shows the staying power of Epstein theories. Trump should know they won’t go away
CNN
It’s easy to underestimate the power of online conspiracy theories and the emotions they can conjure — and it seems Trump himself might be doing so now.
On a Saturday afternoon in October 2020, in a small hotel conference room just outside Phoenix, Arizona, the mood was buoyant. A gentleman wearing an unusual and elaborate headpiece scoffed and grunted my way as I entered the room. It was the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and of the 60 or so people who gathered here, I was among the very few wearing a facemask. Some in the room didn’t believe Covid was even real. The crowd cheered as they watched a clip of President Trump play on a television at the front of the room. The video was from 48 hours earlier, when Trump had been asked by NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie if he would disavow QAnon. He would not. Trump said he knew nothing about QAnon but that “they are very much against pedophilia” and that he agreed with that sentiment. A couple of months earlier, Trump said he’d heard that QAnon followers were “people that love our country.”
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