Donald Trump’s campaign released a new ad warning that former Vice President Joe Biden wants to “overturn” conspiracy theorists, an unusual defense of a segment of the population that would be avoided by nearly every other White House.
The announcement, which aired online Sept. 29 and 30, according to a Google ad database, warns that conspiracy theorists are on Biden’s list of the first targets to “cancel.”
“Joe Biden’s cancellation culture is getting out of hand,” the ad warns, through messages flashing on an old television. “Biden and the radical left want to quash the politically incorrect, the conspirators, the free thinkers, and after that, the political opposition.”
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The ad portrays conspiracy theorists as one of Biden’s earliest targets, warning that once this effort is successful, Biden will continue to ‘cancel’ comedians, before moving on to canceling concepts as broad as ‘jobs’ , “Music” and “history”. As Biden’s alleged cancellation plan heats up, flames flicker on the television and lightning crackles in the background.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
It is not known which conspiracy theories the ad refers to. But the announcement defending the “conspirators” comes after Trump spoke increasingly positively about believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, and after Biden called QAnon “embarrassing” and urged his believers to get help. help with mental illness.
In August, Trump praised the believers in QAnon, calling them “people who love our country.” The conspiracy theory, which posits that the Democratic Party is run by cannibal Satanic pedophiles who will soon be swept away by mass arrests ordered by Trump, is viewed as a potential source of domestic terrorism by the FBI.
The super liberal PAC American Bridge 21st Century criticized the ad defending the “conspirators” in a statement to the Daily Beast.
“Donald Trump has made it clear that he will not deny QAnon’s anti-Semitic illusion,” American Bridge 21st Century spokesman Kyle Morse said. “Now his campaign is quietly running ads that explicitly appeal to ‘conspirators’ as the president continues to spread disinformation about the coronavirus and the legitimacy of the upcoming election.”
The QAnon conspiracy theory continued to make inroads with the GOP, with at least one QAnon believer likely to win a House seat in November. And the Republican Party is less and less willing to fight back. Although House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said there was no place for QAnon in the Republican Party, the Congressional Republican National Committee released an ad that accused mistakenly representative Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) to support pedophiles. The announcement inspired a wave of QAnon-related death threats against Malinowski.
The Trump administration has been even more openly open to believers in QAnon. When Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said QAnon had no place in Congress, the Trump campaign attacked him.
QAnon references have also appeared in the Trump campaign. A Trump campaign ad containing footage of rallies included QAnon signage. In 2019, a Trump campaign rally warm-up speaker mentioned QAnon’s ‘Where are we going, we’re all going’ slogan from the podium, though he later claimed he didn’t mean that the The expression had QAnon connotations.
QAnon believers have been linked to multiple criminal incidents, including two murders, a terrorist incident near the Hoover Dam, threats to kill Biden and three child abduction plots. Last week, a Utah believer QAnon allegedly abducted her son, only to be discovered in Oregon hiding with another QAnon supporter.
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