It goes on to insist that despite the deep state's best efforts, however, Mr. But the deep state, which controls the media, quickly tried to smear him through 'fake news' and unfounded allegations of collusion with Russia. It claims the military, supposedly eager to see the deep state overthrown, recruited Donald Trump to run for the president. An all-encompassing theory of the world, it appears to tie together and explain everything from 'Pizzagate' to ISIS to the prevalence of mass shootings and the JFK assassination.
QAnon exists as a kind of parallel history, in which a 'deep state' took over decades ago. But YouTube videos created by QAnon believers help fill in the gaps and create a storyline that's more-or-less comprehensible. The rest is open to some degree of interpretation, which is necessary because Q's posts tend to read like riddles. The information supposedly comes from a high-ranking government official who posts cryptic clues on 4chan and the even more unfettered site 8chan under the name 'Q.' Supporters of President Trump shout down a CNN news crew before a rally Tuesday, July 31, 2018, in Tampa, Fla.
QAnon purports that America is run by a cabal of pedophiles and Satan-worshippers who run a global child sex-trafficking operation and that former President Trump is the only person who can stop them.
