The truth behind QAnon's lies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Or three, Trump would run and win.
58% : So Trump knows what he's doing when he reaches out quite explicitly to QAnon by wearing the Q badge and using their slogan.
58% : And you saw when Trump was running in 2016, he nodded to that.
53% : They understood that this narrative of a malignant, hidden force behind government was essentially helpful to Trump, and that's why they helped supercharge it.
53% : Gideon RachmanYeah, and by a very, very tight margin so that even though Bobby Kennedy Jr was only at five per cent, if he can tip three of that five per cent towards Trump, that could be important.
52% : And that's what comes out in the research I did for the book, which was that there were people associated with the Trump campaign who were very deliberately pushing this theory because, as one person put it to me, they didn't really understand where it was coming from or what it was all about, but they understood that it was helpful to Trump.
46% : So it's not to say that I think Trump's going to win.
45% : How much significance do you think his endorsement of Trump will have?Gabriel GatehouseI actually think it will have a lot of influence.
42% : So Hunter Biden's laptop has much that Trump should now be taken off the table, so to speak.
42% : But a more recent development is that Robert F Kennedy has ditched his own campaign and endorsed Trump.
41% : I mean, the way I look at it, back when Trump was still just one of the candidates for the Republican nomination, there was all kinds of questions about whether he would be allowed on the ballot, full stop.
38% : I mean, my view of conspiracy theories is that you want to take them in that famous thing that we used to say about Trump -- you take them seriously, but not literally.
36% : I mean, if you look at the content of Project 2025, which of course Trump has disavowed, but actually it's essentially authored by people in his circle and the people who support him believe this stuff, what they want to do is get rid of the federal government.
35% : And I think for Robert F Kennedy Jr to throw his weight behind Trump as the man who's going to bring down this system, the big conspiracy theory now in the US is really kind of transcended this idea of a cabal of satanic paedophiles.
32% : The core beliefs of QAnon seem to be that Trump is waging a secret war against elite, Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.
30% : And there was, you know, a whole bunch of theories fed by Trump that the election had been stolen.
28% : Do you think if Trump were to lose that you'd have a similar backlash, again fed by a lot of these conspiracy theories, which, as you say, have very, very wide purchase?Gabriel Gatehouse
27% : But coming more up to date, Trump is clearly very upset that Biden has dropped out because he was obsessed with Hunter Biden's laptop and he's still talking about Hunter Biden's laptop.
24% : And if Trump gets in this election, maybe all is lost, et cetera, et cetera.
24% : This is make or break, Trump will try to dismantle it.
23% : Two, Trump would run and lose.
19% : One is Trump would be stopped from running.
18% : Trump loses.
13% : They disliked both the candidates, so they dislike Trump and they disliked Biden.

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