Donald Trump calls a QAnon follower a ‘big winner’ after she topped the first round of a Republican congressional primary for a deep-red seat in Georgia
- President Trump called a Republican candidate who believes in the QAnon conspiracy theory a ‘big winner’ after she beat two other GOP candidates
- ‘A big winner. Congratulations!’ Trump tweeted Friday morning about Marjorie Taylor Green, who’s running to represent Georgia’s 14th district
- Green will go up against the second-place finisher John Cowan in a run-off race on August 11
President Trump called a Republican candidate who believes in the QAnon conspiracy theory a ‘big winner’ after she beat two other Republicans in Georgia’s Tuesday primary for deep-red Congressional seat.
‘A big winner. Congratulations!’ Trump tweeted Friday morning, linking to a blog post about Marjorie Taylor Greene, who beat second-place finisher John Cowan by 19 points.
The two are headed for a run-off primary on August 11.
President Trump called GOP Congressional candidate Marjori Taylor Green a ‘big winner’ in a Friday tweet. Green beat two other Republicans in a Georgia primary Tuesday. She is a follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory
President Trump linked to a blog post on Dan Bongino’s website about Green’s win, which pointed out a recent campaign ad where she held up a semi-automatic rifle and threatened Antifa was banned from being used on Facebook
Greene has posted content subscribing to the ‘Q’ conspiracy theory, which revolves around ‘deep state’ officials and global elites killing children, with Trump and a high-ranking intelligence official dubbed ‘Q’ – who could be Trump himself – working to thwart the plot.
‘Q is a patriot. He is someone that very much loves his country, and he’s on the same page as us, and he is very pro-Trump,’ Greene said in a 2017 YouTube video discovered by The Washington Post. ‘I’m very excited about that now there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.’
QAnon has similar outlines to Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory that grew in the deep reaches of the right-wing internet in 2016 that said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ran a sex trafficking ring in the basement of a D.C. pizza parlor.
The bizarre Pizzagate theory got started using references from her campaign chairman John Podesta’s leaked emails. The pizza place has no basement, nor was Clinton involved in any such plot.
But allies of Trump on the right, including ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s son, pushed it into prominence.
A North Carolina man found it so believable that he showed up with a firearm to the restaurant, Comet Ping Pong, to stage a rescue.
QAnon has also been helped by Trump, who has retweeted – possibly unknowingly – accounts that push the conspiracy theory.
The content about Greene that Trump linked to Friday was a short blog post put out by Dan Bongino, the right-leaning former Secret Service agent who earlier this week testified before Congress on invitation by the House GOP.
The Bongino blogpost pointed out that Facebook had banned one of Greene’s political ads.
In it, the Congressional candidate is holding a semi-automatic rifle and threatens Antifa.
‘President Trump declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. I have a message for Antifa terrorists: stay the hell out of northwest Georgia,’ Greene said in the ad. ‘You won’t burn our churches, loot our businesses or destroy our homes.’