The far-right firebrands and conspiracy theorists of the pro-Trump Internet have a new enemy: each other. QAnon devotees are livid at their former hero Michael Flynn for accurately calling their jumbled credo "total nonsense."
Donald Trump superfans have voiced a sense of betrayal because the former president, booed for getting a coronavirus immunization booster, has become a "vaccine salesman."
The result is a chaotic melodrama, playing out via secretly recorded phone calls, personal attacks in podcasts, and a seemingly endless stream of posts on Twitter, Gab, and Telegram calling their rivals Satanists, communists, pedophiles, or "pay-triots"—money-grubbing grifters exploiting the cause.
Inventor Jovan Pulitzer is a pillar of the MAGA election-fraud movement. His theories were integrated into the Arizona audit and a pro-coup PowerPoint presentation that reached Donald Trump's chief of staff.
But last week, Trumpworld's genius inventor prank-called one of his haters by posing as a restaurant employee clarifying an order for a "cock sandwich."
Pulitzer's change from a leading light of the Arizona audit into a juvenile prank-caller comes in the aftermath of the Arizona audit's failure, as figures who promised the audit would uncover serious election malfeasance point fingers at one another over who is to blame.
Utah Tech Leader Out After Anti-Semitic/QAnon Email
Entrata founder Dave Bateman stepped down as chairman of the software company on Tuesday after sending an antisemitic email to many Utah political leaders calling the COVID-19 vaccine a plot to "euthanize the American people," blaming the effort on "the Jews."
Bateman's email, sent early Monday from his entrata.com account, cited an unhinged conspiracy theory that says the vaccines are an effort, pushed by "global elites," including Bill Gates and George Soros, to depopulate the planet.
Bateman's email included an antisemitic screed, blaming "the Jews" for the nefarious scheme, which involves secretly replacing the pope with a member of the Jewish faith. He writes that happened in 2013 with the ascension of Pope Francis.
In the email, Bateman attacks the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine, and urged people not to get it. He also claims that criticism of the vaccine is being censored, and international charges were going to be filed against Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Among those the email went to were Utah Jazz owner and Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith, Governor Spencer Cox, Senate Minority Whip Luz Escamilla, Economic Development Corporation of Utah CEO Theresa Foxley, and a number of other Silicon Slopes CEOs.
Bateman has been a prominent figure in Republican politics in Utah. He was a big donor to the party, bailing them out of financial trouble, and supporting one faction of the Utah GOP in an internal fight that spilled out in public over paths for candidates to get on the ballot.
QAnon figure Michael Protzman's predictions have torn families apart, leading husbands to divorce wives, and children to disown parents. Followers have also been left destitute after donating all their money to the group. Protzman has claimed that a coming "global reset" will wipe out all their debts.
The latest conspiracy the group has clung to is that the Ukraine war is part of a plan to uncover President Joe Biden's criminality and replace him with JFK, who is very much alive and hiding in plain sight, disguised as Donald Trump.
The group has dwindled in size from over 100 to just over a few dozen, and in recent weeks the group has split into at least three factions, with each splinter group making wild allegations against the others.
According to the Tulsa Police Department, a man later identified as Randy Cantwell came into a car dealership near 61st and Mingo and asked to look at an Audi in the lot. An employee got the keys and began showing Cantwell the car, but said the car was not ready to be driven.
Cantwell said he was taking it anyway, and claimed the dealership stole the car. Cantwell told employees he was a federal marshal and could take the car if he wanted. Cantwell told officers he became a marshal after "President Trump enacted marital law."
Engineer Gets 3 Years for Derailing Train in Attempt to Prove QTard Claims
A train engineer was sentenced to three years in prison for intentionally derailing a train near a Navy hospital ship in San Pedro, California because he believed it was part of a government conspiracy to get rid of healthy, open-minded people.
Eduardo Moreno, 46, pleaded guilty this past December to having committed a terrorist attack against a railroad carrier. He admitted he intentionally derailed the train near where the USNS Mercy was docked two years ago. The hospital ship had come to help alleviate the pressure on L.A.-area hospitals in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
After his arrest, Moreno told law enforcement that he was suspicious of the hospital ship, and that he wanted to draw attention to it, because he believed the ship had an alternate purpose related to the pandemic or a government takeover.
A new poll finds that a majority of Republicans believe a bizarre conspiracy theory that undergirds the QAnon movement and inspired an attack in Washington, D.C.
Respondents to a The Economist/YouGov poll published this week were asked to rate the truth of several conspiracy theories, including the false claim that "Top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings."
While most Americans do not believe that statement to be true, among Republican respondents, 52 percent said it is either "Definitely True" (20%) or "Probably True" (32%) that "Top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings."
QTard GOP Candidate Charged with Filing False Trafficking Report
Ryan Dark White, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland under the name "Jon McGreevey," has been arrested and charged with filing a false report after he told law enforcement an adult bookstore in Edgewood was forcing a young girl to perform sex acts on men, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said.
The sheriff's office says the story was made up. "It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda," said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
In April, a tipster provided information to detectives with the Harford County Sheriff's Office that a man and a young girl between, 10–12 years old, entered an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway, and the child was forced to perform sex acts on male customers, police said.
Sheriff Gahler added, "It is even more appalling that another individual, who is running for a law enforcement position, would embrace such an obviously false narrative in an effort to gain political traction—nothing more." This is aimed at Andy Kuhl, who is running for Baltimore County sheriff as a Republican.
Kuhl called White a credible informant, and accused detectives of running a political smear campaign against White–whom he called McGreevey–ahead of the upcoming primary.
White reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting.
A Colorado mother accused of plotting to kidnap her son from foster care after her teen daughter said she started associating with supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory was found guilty of conspiracy to commit second-degree kidnapping on Friday.
Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her then 7-year-old son lived in the fall of 2019. She had lost custody of him earlier that year after being accused of medical child abuse—lying about him having seizures and other health problems in order to trick doctors into providing unnecessary care.
Abcug posted on social media that social workers took children to sell them and sent them to other countries for adoption. Rubber bracelets with a phrase used by QAnon supporters, Storm Is Upon Us, as well as a website known for posts about QAnon printed on them were found in her home.
Police Kill QTard After He Shoots Wife and Daughter
A Walled Lake man whose daughter said had been struggling with mental issues after embracing conspiracy theories was fatally shot by police Sunday after he allegedly shot and killed his wife and injured another daughter.
According to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, police received a "chilling" 9-1-1 call at 4:11 a.m. Sunday from a 25-year-old woman who said her father had shot her and killed her mother, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. She was so distraught she could not give an address other than Glenwood Court, authorities said.
Rebecca Lanis said after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, her father started falling deeper into "crazy ideas" online, including QAnon conspiracy theories about Trump and vaccines. "Nobody could talk him out of them," she said.
Rebecca Lanis said that her father became obsessed with QAnon and other conspiracy theories in 2020, consuming huge amounts of online videos and following far-right figures like InfoWars's Alex Jones.
According to his daughter, Igor Lanis was a car designer with no history of violence. She described her parents as once "extremely loving," but her father changed after Donald Trump lost in 2020.
He insisted that family members watch conspiracy theories videos about the 5G cell towers, vaccines, and the election. He started to believe that some world leaders were in fact alien lizard-people in disguise, a fringe conspiracy theory even among QAnon supporters.