Supporters stand for the national anthem while sporting shirts supporting the QAnon movement while waiting for President Trump to speak at a rally Tuesday in Charleston, W.Va. (Leah Millis/Reuters)President Trump posed for a photo in the Oval Office this week with one of the most prominent promoters of the “QAnon” conspiracy group, who later posted a video commemorating the visit. Michael Lebron, a New York-based attorney and radio host who goes by the name “Lionel,” shared the photo on Friday morning, with an accompanying video that showed him poring through a White House “swag bag.”Lebron has grown his online following by sharing speculation about QAnon conspiracy theory. In the social media post Friday, he assured his fans that the president “knows about” the theory. QAnon, an outgrowth of the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory — which posited that Hillary Clinton and other elites were members of a secretive pedophile ring — has mushroomed in popularity since first appearing as a poster on the 8chan Web forum in October. The ignition switch, the connection, the conduit,” Lebron wrote in a July 4 blog post.

Source: Washington Post August 25, 2018 03:58 UTC