With the night growing cold in North Carolina, Donald Trump began to wrap up his address with a bleak vision of America’s decline since he left office. The crowd fell quiet as music swelled from the speakers and as he spoke, a scattering of people in the crowd raised a single finger to the night sky. Sponsored“It was hardworking patriots like you who built this country and it is hardworking patriots like you who are going to save our country,” he told his audience. “We will fight for America like no one has ever fought before.”Spectators in Wilmington in a one-finger salute. The gesture has raised concerns that the former president wants to appeal directly to QAnon supporters JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERSIt was the latest in a string of recent Trump moments that have sent a chill down the spine of researchers studying QAnon, the extremist conspiracy cult that the

Source: The Times September 25, 2022 06:36 UTC