Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy principle flocked to Dallas on Tuesday over the false perception that John F. Kennedy Jr. (JFK Jr.), who died in a airplane crash in 1999, would materialize to reinstate Donald Trump as president.
The false declare was promoted this week by a QAnon guru on Telegram, main lots of of conspiracy theorists to collect at Dealey Plaza, the placement the place former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
The idea that JFK Jr. remains to be alive and secretly working with Trump has been pervasive for a while within the QAnon motion.
Unsurprisingly, similar to each other time QAnon believers stated that JFK Jr. would return, the deceased lawyer didn’t emerge. As with each different failed prediction, the conspiracy theorists moved the goalposts and as an alternative claimed that JFK Jr. would seem at a Rolling Stones live performance in Dallas on Tuesday night.
Regardless of JFK Jr.’s incapability to seem on the rally, QAnon supporters didn’t think about the day a complete failure after turning into satisfied that quite a few different deceased celebrities had been among the many crowd.
One conspiracy theorist stay streaming the occasion claimed that Hollywood actor Robin Williams, who died by suicide in 2014, had been noticed. Skilled inventory automotive driver Dale Earnhardt, who died throughout a race in 2001 after a horrific crash, was additionally cited by the streamer as being current.
A person in a masks was additionally alleged to be pop star Michael Jackson, who died in 2009 from cardiac arrest attributable to a prescription drug overdose.
Even with one more failed prediction beneath their belts, QAnon supporters stay satisfied that the prophecy involving JFK Jr. and Trump’s return to workplace will probably be fulfilled. As famous by BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh, a minimum of one consumer on Telegram known as for his or her fellow conspiracy theorists to “hold the religion.”
“I’m unhappy for everyone. We now appear like a bunch of liars,” they wrote. “[B]ut let’s hold the religion.”
The JKF Jr. conspiracy principle, nevertheless, isn’t supported by everybody within the QAnon motion. Different outstanding QAnon gurus responded to the rally on Telegram by falsely claiming that those that attended had been both secretly working for the media or the federal government to border their beliefs as outlandish.
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*First Revealed: Nov 2, 2021, 3:52 pm CDT
Mikael Thalen
Mikael Thalen is a tech and safety reporter primarily based in Seattle, protecting social media, information breaches, hackers, and extra.
