Prominent Trump Supporters Now Say QAnon Was a Democratic Scheme to Trick Patriots

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Prominent supporters of Donald Trump are facing backlash from within their ranks for calling into question the validity of QAnon, a conspiracy theory that alleges the president is working to defeat a cabal of powerful elites who engage in pedophilia and worship Satan.

The tweet: Shortly before the Associated Press projected Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, former Major League Baseball Player Aubrey Huff tweeted out a criticism of QAnon on Saturday, suggesting its believers had been hoodwinked by Democrats.

  • “Qanon was a democratic strategy to keep many conservatives complacent in ‘trusting the plan’ while the left continued their evil corruption,” Huff, a staunch Trump supporter who frequently mocks liberals on social media, tweeted.
  • The same day, conservative pundit Erick Erickson echoed Huff’s sentiment.
  • “So QAnon was a progressive plan to make conservatives complacent that there was a secret master plan and they could boat parade instead of phone bank, right?” Erickson, a former Trump critic who now supports the president, tweeted.

The reaction: Responses from fellow Trump supporters were fast and furious.

“how did it keep people complacent? It got me involved and a lot of others,” Dustin Penner, a Trump supporter and former National Hockey League player, tweeted in reply to Huff.

Other fellow Trump supporters dismissed Huff’s take.

One apparent QAnon believer agreed with the premise behind Huff’s assertion, but said the patriotic insider known as “Q” was not to blame.

Meanwhile, liberals chimed in to mock Huff and QAnon.

“I planned the whole thing on one of Hunter’s laptops,” quipped journalist David Lytle.

MSNBC reporter Adam Weinstein reminded Huff that he had once expressed support for QAnon.

Where does Trump stand on Q? The president has on multiple occasions refused to denounce QAnon, saying he knows “nothing” about the movement.

By We'll Do It Live