During the pandemic the QAnon movement has been appears to be gaining a lot of followers

can you talk about what you think about that and what you have to say to people who are following this movement right now?

Well, I don't know much about the movement other than I understand.

They like me very much, which I appreciate.

I have heard that it is gaining in popularity. I've heard these are people

that love our country.

At the cross of the theory is this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this

satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Does that sound like something you are

behind?

Well, I haven't heard that, but is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing?

I mean, you know.

That's an excerpt from episode three of our new conspiracy land series that explores in part the relationship between President Trump and the bizarre conspiracy cult known as Qenon, whose believers are convinced there's a secret

deep state cabal of child sex traffickers and Satan worshippers who are seeking

to sabotage Trump's presidency.

The series primarily deals with the story behind one of Trump's stranger tweet storms from

last spring, messages that pushed a completely discredited conspiracy theory, suggesting that one of the president's media critics,

MS NBC host Joe Scarborough, had murdered a young woman who worked for him 19 years ago.

But in the course of reporting it, I ran across

QAnon and the role its believers played in disseminating the same false

conspiracy theory once Trump started pushing it.

At first I didn't pay much attention because I figured QANAN's beliefs are way too outlandish

to have much traction with the general public.

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