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Skullduggery

The GOP’s QAnon Play

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

NJ Congressman Tom Malinowski and National Correspondent for TIME Charlotte Alter join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman for a special bonus episode of Skullduggery's "Conspiracyland." Malinowski reacts to the recent unfounded ad attack against him straight from the QAnon playbook. Then, Alter weighs in having just written an in-depth piece about the fringe supporter group and how it's slowly working its way into the mainstream.

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0:00.0

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

0:08.2

Can you talk about what you think about that and what you have to say to people who are

0:12.8

following this movement right now?

0:14.5

Well, I don't know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very

0:18.1

much, which I appreciate.

0:21.7

I have heard that it is gaining in popularity.

0:26.0

I've heard these are people that love our country.

0:28.1

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

0:34.8

this titanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals.

0:39.0

Does that sound like something you are behind?

0:43.2

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

0:51.5

That's an excerpt from Episode 3 of our new conspiracy-and-series that explores and part

0:57.0

the relationship between President Trump and the bizarre conspiracy cult known as QAnon.

1:02.9

Whose believers are convinced there is a secret deep-state cabal of child sex traffickers

1:07.8

and Satan worshipers who are seeking to sabotage Trump's presidency.

1:13.3

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

1:18.5

from last spring.

1:20.5

Messages that pushed a completely discredited conspiracy theory, suggesting that one of

1:24.8

the president's media critics, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, had murdered a young woman

1:30.2

who worked for him 19 years ago.

1:32.6

But in the course of reporting it, I ran across QAnon and the role its believers played

1:37.9

in disseminating the same false conspiracy theory once Trump started pushing it.

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