Donald Trump Invites QAnon Backer to Speak at His Upcoming Rally – By David Corn (Mother Jones) / January 11, 2022
Mark Finchem is a conspiracy theorist who supports Trump’s Big Lie.
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As part of his I-ain’t-going-away campaign, Donald Trump will hold a rally in Florence, Arizona, this Saturday. He describes the event as “a continuation” of his “unprecedented effort to advance the MAGA agenda by energizing voters and highlighting America First candidates and causes.” But the rally will do something else: provide a boost to the extremist and absurdist QAnon movement—which claims Trump is covertly battling a global cabal of pedophilic and cannibalistic elites that include top Democrats and liberal billionaires—by featuring a QAnon supporter whom Trump has invited to be a “special guest speaker.”
The roster of other acts scheduled to share the stage with Trump includes various Arizona Republicans who have peddled Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election, such as Reps. Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and Debbie Lesko. Also on the line-up will be My Pillow guy Mike Lindell; state GOP chair Kelli Ward, who has supported Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud and who asserted the January 6 rioters were part of a false flag operation to undermine Trump; and Kari Lake, a candidate governor who CNN has branded a “serial promoter of election lies.” (Lake, who was recently a local Fox anchor, called for locking up the secretary of state who certified Joe Biden’s win in Arizona and endorsed Lindell’s assorted crackpot theories about the election.)
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