4. Q Drops
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
QAnon and the plot to break reality...
In Oct 2017 Donald Trump says something weird in a room full of military figures: “Maybe this is the calm before the storm.”
A few weeks later a poster on 4chan who calls himself Q starts to tell a crazy story about a coming storm, in which Trump is engaged in an epic battle against a cabal of satanic paedophiles who have hijacked the American Republic.
A group of bloggers mainstream the theory and it starts having a life of its own with real world consequences. Qanon is born. But who is directing it?
Producer: Lucy Proctor Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi, welcome back. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Gabriel Gatehouse and this is the coming storm. Okay, quick recap. |
| 0:18.0 | On January the 6th last year, I was in London glued to my TV watching a mob storm the capital in Washington DC. |
| 0:27.0 | They were convinced the election was stolen from Donald Trump and there was. A vast new conspiracy theory known as |
| 0:35.8 | Kewenon in which Hillary Clinton was the central figure in a cabal of |
| 0:40.4 | satanic pedophiles who'd hijack the American Republic. How did that story get into the bloodstream? |
| 0:48.1 | That's what I've been trying to figure out. |
| 0:52.4 | We began with a dead body in a park in the early 1990s. |
| 0:57.0 | Vince Foster, a friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, had shot himself. |
| 1:01.0 | It is a day of grief, reflection and unanswered questions. had shot himself. On the early internet, a conspiracy theory began to circulate. |
| 1:09.2 | Had the Clintons had him killed? |
| 1:11.7 | They hadn't. But as I dug deeper I discovered a whole ecosystem of |
| 1:18.3 | journalists and lawyers, right-wing millionaires and evangelical preachers who were deliberately shaping a parallel reality |
| 1:27.0 | in which the Clintons as a couple were demonic taking over the country for evil purposes. |
| 1:34.0 | This narrative bubbled away beneath the surface of mainstream America for decades. |
| 1:40.0 | She's a fricking demon and she stings like sulfur. |
| 1:42.0 | They smell like sulfur. |
| 1:42.8 | They smell like hell. |
| 1:45.3 | Growing louder as Hillary set her sights on the presidency. |
| 1:49.8 | Meanwhile, those early internet forums morphed into message boards. |
| 1:55.0 | Sites like Fortune, awash with conspiracy theories, white supremacist, |
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