

“For six straight years, the witch hunts, hoaxes and abuses have been coming at us fast and furious,” Trump said. Trump repeatedly attacked Democratic President Joe Biden, lamented the United States as a “failing nation” and denounced investigations into his conduct as political attacks - including the Department of Justice’s investigation into classified documents Trump took after leaving office. You now have gasoline, $5 today, $5.54 a gallon.”īut the majority of his remarks disregarded Nevada entirely. “Two years ago, everything was so good in our country, and now, it's going to pieces. “Under Democrat rule, the price of gas in Nevada is up 100 percent,” Trump said. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo.ĭuring a nearly 90-minute speech delivered in front of thousands of cheering supporters at the Minden-Tahoe Airport, roughly 12 miles south of the State Capitol, Trump blamed Democrats for high inflation and what he described as an “invasion” at the southern border, while also boosting down-ticket Republicans, including secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant and attorney general candidate Sigal Chattah. And while his support for the conspiracy theory remained more muted during his presidency, Trump’s subtle winks and nods have grown into more blatant promotions of the movement that openly calls for killing his political rivals.Former President Donald Trump attacked Nevada’s top Democrats as weak on crime and damaging to the economy during a Saturday campaign rally in Minden, Nevada for the state’s top Republican candidates, including U.S. “I do know they are very much against pedophilia,” Trump said in 2020 when he was asked about the movement.
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Trump began directly acknowledging QAnon while still in office.

And in Pennsylvania, a 61-year-old man armed with a loaded firearm allegedly entered a Dairy Queen a week and a half ago and told police he was trying to “kill Democrats and liberals,” per local news. In Michigan earlier this month, after a 53-year-old man shot and killed his wife and wounded their daughter, and was then killed by police, his other daughter said her father’s obsession with the conspiracy theory drove him to violence, per NBC News. Amid Trump’s attempts to ingratiate himself with the movement, QAnon-an ideology that the FBI first identified as a domestic terrorist threat in 2019, according to a memo obtained by Yahoo News at the time-continues to have dangerous and deadly ramifications offline. Trump has boosted this development by promoting dozens of Q-linked accounts in the past month, according to an Associated Press analysis. Meanwhile, Truth Social itself has become a cesspool for the sorts of QAnon content and influencers that Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit have clamped down on. As the song played, rally attendees raised their arms in cult-like unison, flashing a one-finger salute, a raised index finger, which appears to reference the foundational QAnon motto, “Where we go one, we go all.” The song, to followers of Q, appeared to be a 2020 track released under the title “Wwg1wga.” The last several minutes of his speech had a soundtrack-a film-score-like tune that resembled an anthem for followers of QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory and political movement that portrays Trump as a messiah figure saving America from an international cabal of elite, Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Vance took a strange and dark turn Saturday when dramatic music suddenly began playing over the arena’s loudspeakers. But Trump’s appearance at the rally in support of Republican Senate nominee J.D. “We are a nation that has weaponized its law enforcement against the opposing political party like never ever before,” he stated, and baselessly suggested the government was hiding evidence that he actually won the election. In many ways, Donald Trump’s speech over the weekend in Youngstown, Ohio, was standard fare for the former president predictably bitter, he warned of America’s decline into a crime-riddled hellscape and lashed out at the media, Hunter Biden, the FBI, and the Justice Department.
