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The FBI Declared QAnon a Domestic Terrorism Threat and Conspiracy Theorists Are Psyched
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Rolling Stone
Posted: August 26th, 2019
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/qanon-...
Yahoo News has published a 15-page internal memo from the FBI declaring conspiracy theories a domestic terrorism threat. Distributed on May 30th, the memo from the bureaus Phoenix office notes that it is the first report of its kind to take aim at conspiracy-driven domestic terrorism, citing a number of violent incidents the bureau believes were linked to conspiracy theories. Although the memo lists a number of such theories, including Pizzagate and the conspiracy surrounding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, it pays particular notice to QAnon, the wide-ranging ... theory suggesting that Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking Democratic officials are engaged in a child sex trafficking ring, and that President Trump will one day arrest them and send them to Guantanamo Bay. QAnon followers also believe that the Mueller report was a smokescreen for Mueller and Trumps secret investigation into the Democratic officials and other global elites. While some appeared to have been genuinely wounded by the FBI memo, expressing deep feelings of outrage and betrayal toward Q ... others appeared to double down. One theory that gained some traction was that deep state agents had infiltrated the FBI to write the memo; others, that the document wasnt real. Many felt validated by the memo, taking it as yet another sign that everything was going according to plan. Some interpreted it as a way to force the mainstream medias hand and get them to ask Trump directly about QAnon.
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