QAnon - the extremist face of the Washington riots
Supporters of the conspiracy theory were in the vanguard of the storming of the Capitol building. But what is QAnon, and who is behind it?
8 January 2021 • 6:14pm
The QAnon Shaman : the hardcore Trump supporter who has become the face of the storming of the Capitol building
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This piece was originally published on December 12 2020
On 3 November, the morning of the US election, a posting appeared on an internet message board about Donald Trump’s secret plan to take down a cabal of ‘deep state’ politicians, bureaucrats and elite liberals engaged in a global satanic paedophile ring.