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Politics
Alex Henderson

Donald Trump and the rise of "QMaga"

Audience members put their index finger up while former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to support Republican candidates at the Covelli Centre before on September 17, 2022 in Youngstown, Ohio. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

During his 2020 campaign, former President Donald Trump made a point of being vague when discussing the far-right QAnon movement. Trump refrained from overtly promoting QAnon and its conspiracy theories, but he wouldn't say anything critical of them either and claimed that he "didn't know much about" their movement.

Times have changed. Trump is now openly promoting QAnon and is using exact phrases associated with the group, including "the storm" and their slogan "where we go one, we go all." And Trump is hardly the only MAGA Republican who is embracing QAnon.

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