this is not who we are. oh every patriotic american knows how, president biden painting the upcoming elections as the battle for the soul of the nation. more on that up. ahead leading with the breaking news in tupelo, mississippi, where a man flying a small plane is in custody, following ordeal as he left the skies saturday morning. he threatened to crash the aircraft into a walmart which led to the store becoming evacuated. the plane eventually came down. more with nbc correspondent blaine talk to us, we just heard from the officials a short time ago. whatever we learned about this individual who took this plane and perhaps as motivations here? yes, but we are learning and continuing to learn more by the hour how this unfolded and how it became unbelievably v to a peaceful and with no injuries. more about this individuals. he s 29 years old. he actually worked at that airport, in tupelo. he worked there for about a decade. he was responsible for refusing the aircraft.
president donald trump and from a flirtation with qanon conspiracists to officially going study. nbc collins noted in a story this week that quote while trump has in the past promoted qanon inspired accounts and theories and post on his true social account or his most explicit annex beard qanon promoting and qanon bidding posts today. ben collins is joining me now. ben let s talk about this. because you know in your piece, essentially, how he has gone there in certain respects. but what happened this week it s a lot more troublesome. tell us why. yeah. he has never endorsed this conspiracy theory or pushed qanon accounts that says specific things about the storm but that is what he did this week. he posted a couple of qanon posts, one was in reference to the storm coming, the storm is the end date for qanon the big apocalyptic judgment day where hillary clinton and joe biden
are marched down the street and executed in public and all of that stuff. there was an actual q drop, a fictitious government insider, who posted all of these things that was a post from 2017. so this is explicit endorsement of the most apocalyptic cult that exists, political cult that exist in america right now. but donald trump probably likes it because they are the only people who are left on truth social right now really cloying out this timeline. all right, so two questions. i know that you had a lot of folks immediately responding to this supporters especially qanon supporters. what were they saying? and what do you think is behind this? what is this saying about where the former president is at right now psychologically, that he is promoting these types of things, qanon conspiracy theories like this. what is he looking for? yeah. qanon was dying, because it