Conspiracy theorist QAnon promoted, then deleted, by Hillsborough County (FL) GOP
The official Twitter account for the Hillsborough County Republican executive committee is drawing national attention for tweeting out a YouTube explanatory video of the conspiracy theorist.
By William March Jul. 16
For right-wing conspiracy theorists, an intriguing development of the Trump era has been "Q," or "QAnon," a posting handle on internet message boards 4chan and 8chan.
Claiming to be a high-level government official with a "Q" security clearance, QAnon, who is also known as "The Storm", tells followers what he purports to be the inside story of Trump's secret battle against the "deep state," including pedophilia rings run by Hillary Clinton (also known as "Pizzagate"
and other Hollywood and Democratic Party elites; a foiled plot to shoot down Air Force 1; and secret deployments of the National Guard to put down the riots expected when Trump takes down the cabal of evildoers.
If it sounds a bit looney, and dangerous, that didn't stop the Hillsborough County Republican Party from posting a link to a popular YouTube guide to QAnon on the party's public Facebook page and Twitter account recently.
The post was "pinned" so it stayed at the top of the page and on Twitter, too. After a reporter asked about it, the Facebook post was unpinned, and since appears to have been removed.
Party Chairman Jim Waurishuk, an early Trump supporter, said the post was "informational … It's certainly not something we promote or subscribe to."
But the tweet,which was deleted, has since garnered national attention.
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