WH Downplays FBI Warning Of QAnon Posing Threat: ‘I Had To Google’ It | Talking Points Memo

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and DHS secretary Chad Wolf on Sunday echoed President Trump’s claim that he “doesn’t know much about” the far-right conspiracy QAnon despite the FBI labeling it as a potential domestic terrorism threat.


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For an administration that praises Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and other countless brutal dictators over the nation’s intelligence agencies, this doesn’t surprise me at all. Suggesting that they had to Google it is a damned lie.

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“I find it appalling that the media when we have all of the important things going on, a list of Top 20s, that the first question at a press briefing would be about QAnon,’

Meadows continued
“But the president has nothing else going on, so it’s OK for him to retweet it.”

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Sergeant Schultz has nothing on this White House.
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There is only one path for the GOP and as time goes on the reality distortion gets that much worse.

Trump is mentally ill. It’s naturally easier for him.

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So, I can’t comment and not going to comment on every fringe element and fringe group out there. There are many. There are very — there are many.
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What a disgrace! Wolf dances around on his tippy-toes, pretending to be under-informed about this QAnon kook brigade. And why? They are reliable Trump voters.

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Can’t let the deep-state pedophiles know that QAnon is real, now could ya? But I’m sure QAnon already predicted these statements.

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Shorter version: “The President knows nothing about what is going on in this country and neither do I. We have more important things to do.”

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QAnon is the Joe Isuzu of L. Ron Hubbards.

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They had to google it in order to say that they had to google it.

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Always with the merchandise. How many families are depending on this conspiracy to put food on the table…

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Telling what you have to believe these days to imagine Trump is competent.

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Marky Mark and the other Trump stooges can’t alienate the Qwazy Q’s because Qanon IS smack dab in the mainstream of the Republican Party

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A tenet of capitalism is the rich are divine.

I blame the Reformation.

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That would take one hell of an imagination!

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Trump’s claim that he “doesn’t know much about” the far-right conspiracy QAnon despite the FBI labeling it as a potential domestic terrorism threat.

These things are not mutually exclusive, given that Trump does not read, listen to, or look at artist renditions of his PDBs. Neither, apparently, does his Chief of Staff. Then again, Meadows has been doubled-down lying jag today.

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Never heard of it (him, them).

The go to excuse of the Trump Criminal Conspiracy.

I can imagine a mobster on trial giving this exact same testimony,

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Or not. Lying about googling works for them too.

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QAnon, racism, and trumpism is the heart of heart of today’s GOP. We are watching the death of the “Party of Lincoln” in slow motion. Sadly there will be much more damage to the United States before the final implosion.

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Yes, it‘s astonishing how ignorant they all are.

Of course, now that I think about it, IMPOTUS did state that he really loved the uneducated…

So, should be no surprise, I suppose.

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