![]() The actor died in 2013 when the sports car he was a passenger in crashed into a lamp post and a gas pipe, which burst into flames.”įinchem was in Washington on January 6 for the so-called “Stop the Steal” rally that led to the insurrectionist raid on Congress. Last week, he referred to a QAnon belief that people are killing children to ‘harvest’ a chemical compound from them, then talked about a ‘criminal cabal’ controlling the government, saying people do not understand ‘what plane of existence they come from.’” During the May 9 show, Finchem claimed a slow-motion coup against Trump was underway.Ī few weeks earlier in April, the Arizona Mirror reported, “Finchem himself has dabbled in QAnon, sharing a widely debunked photo on Gab that actor Paul Walker was killed by the Clintons because he was ‘coming forward’ with information about alleged crimes against the Clinton Foundation in Haiti. In one stream, and a guest encouraged viewers to drink a bleach solution that claims to cure cancer, which the Food and Drug Administration has said is dangerous. According to The New York Times, Paine’s channel on Twitch, a live streaming video site owned by Amazon, “has more than 14,000 followers and is rife with conspiracy theories about vaccines and cancer. ‘There’s a lot of people involved in a pedophile network in the distribution of children…And, unfortunately, there’s a whole lot of elected officials that are involved in that.’”įinchem appeared on that QAnon-friendly podcast, which aired on May 9, with host Zak Paine, a well-known QAnon advocate and conspiracy theory amplifier. ‘We’ve got a serious problem in this nation,’ he said in a separate interview on Victory Media. In June, CNN reported, “Finchem has repeated conspiracy theories on fringe conservative media and at least one high-profile podcast known for being supportive of QAnon. Finchem’s links to the QAnon movement are no secret. Mark Finchem, who is running for secretary of state with Trump’s endorsement. The QAnon-friendly speaker on this list is state Rep. ![]() Also on the line-up will be My Pillow guy Mike Lindell state GOP chair Kelli Ward, who has supported Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud and who asserted the January 6 rioters were part of a false flag operation to undermine Trump and Kari Lake, a candidate governor who CNN has branded a “serial promoter of election lies.” (Lake, who was recently a local Fox anchor, called for locking up the secretary of state who certified Joe Biden’s win in Arizona and endorsed Lindell’s assorted crackpot theories about the election.) ![]() Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and Debbie Lesko. ![]() The roster of other acts scheduled to share the stage with Trump includes various Arizona Republicans who have peddled Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election, such as Reps. He describes the event as “a continuation” of his “unprecedented effort to advance the MAGA agenda by energizing voters and highlighting America First candidates and causes.” But the rally will do something else: provide a boost to the extremist and absurdist QAnon movement-which claims Trump is covertly battling a global cabal of pedophilic and cannibalistic elites that include top Democrats and liberal billionaires-by featuring a QAnon supporter whom Trump has invited to be a “special guest speaker.” Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Īs part of his I-ain’t-going-away campaign, Donald Trump will hold a rally in Florence, Arizona, this Saturday.
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