In Trump’s Twitter Feed: Conspiracy-Mongers, Racists and Spies

[christiefan915]

Who's surprised by this? Skeezy people are drawn to trump like metal filings to a magnet.

"In September, an obscure Twitter account promoting a fringe belief about an anti-Trump cabal within the government tweeted out a hashtag: #FakeWhistleblower.

It was typical for the anonymous account, which traffics in far-right content and a conspiracy theory known as QAnon, some of whose adherents think that satanic pedophiles control the “deep state.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently labeled QAnon a potential domestic terror threat. Still, that did not stop others, including a Republican congressional candidate, from quickly picking up the hashtag and tweeting it. Within a week, hundreds of QAnon believers and “MAGA” activists had joined in, posting memes and bogus reports to undermine the complaint by a government whistle-blower that President Trump had pressed Ukraine’s leader for dirt on former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son.

Then Mr. Trump tweeted the hashtag himself. At its peak, just after the president tweeted, the hashtag was used more than 1,200 times per hour. Mr. Trump, whose own tweets have warned of deep-state plots against him, accused the House speaker of treason and labeled Republican critics “human scum,” has helped spread a culture of suspicion and distrust of facts into the political mainstream.

The president is also awash in an often toxic torrent that sluices into his Twitter account — roughly 1,000 tweets per minute, many intended for his eyes. Tweets that tag his handle, @realDonaldTrump, can be found with hashtags like #HitlerDidNothingWrong, #IslamIsSatanism and #WhiteGenocide. While filters can block offensive material, the president clearly sees some of it, because he dips into the frothing currents and serves up noxious bits to the rest of the world.

By retweeting suspect accounts, seemingly without regard for their identity or motives, [trump] has lent credibility to white nationalists, anti-Muslim bigots and obscure QAnon adherents like VB Nationalist, an anonymous account that has promoted a hoax about top Democrats worshiping the Devil and engaging in child sex trafficking."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...formation.html

[christiefan915]

[QAnon's] conspiracy theory, mainly disseminated by supporters of President Trump under the names The Storm and The Great Awakening—QAnon's precepts and vocabulary are closely related to the religious concepts of millenarianism and apocalypticism^[16]—has been characterized as "baseless",^[17][18][19] "unhinged",^[20] and "evidence-free".^[21] Its proponents have been called "a deranged conspiracy cult"^[22] and "some of the Internet's most outré Trump fans".^[23]

According to Travis View, who has studied the QAnon phenomenon and written about it extensively for The Washington Post, the essence of the conspiracy theory is that

there is a worldwide cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who rule the world, essentially, and they control everything. They control politicians, and they control the media. They control Hollywood, and they cover up their existence, essentially. And they would have continued ruling the world, were it not for the election of President Donald Trump,^[16]

who was elected to put a stop to the cabal, and whose struggles behind the scenes are being revealed by "Q".^[16] "The Storm" is an anticipated event in which thousands of people, members of the cabal, will be arrested, possibly sent to Guantanamo Bay prison or face military tribunals, and the U.S. military will brutally take over the country.^[16] The result will be salvation and a utopia on earth.^[24]

[Nordberg]

I used to think Trump was using these people. Now I think he is a believer. He never has slipped out of character.in 3 years. At least Alex Jones admitted in court he is an actor playing a character for a big paycheck. Trump never admits a thing.

[ThatOwlWoman]

I used to think Trump was using these people. Now I think he is a believer. He never has slipped out of character.in 3 years. At least Alex Jones admitted in court he is an actor playing a character for a big paycheck. Trump never admits a thing.

I agree. I think he started out thinking to use them to his own means. Now they're using him to spread their filth.