Is Hillary Clinton on the Verge of Arrest?

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There isn't any real legitimate evidence that is anything besides someone who is very good at exploiting certain peoples sort of fears and hopes. It was especially appealing because there is a significant number of people who believe that they were promised by president trump that the hiller clinton would eventually be locked up. But then along comes c to convince you that, no, actually, there is an operation in order to e eventually arrest hillard clinton, but it's secret and it can't be made public. And if you would otherwise feel extremely disappointed that trump wasn't living up to that promise, than this or the cue story can be very appealing.

What would inspire someone to singlehandedly initiate an armed standoff on the Hoover Dam, or lead the police on a 100-mile-an-hour car chase while calling for help from an anonymous internet source, or travel hundreds of miles alone to shoot up a pizza parlor? The people who did these things were all connected to the decentralized cult-like internet conspiracy theory group called QAnon. Our guest this episode, Travis View, is a researcher, writer and podcast host who has spent the last few years trying to understand the people who’ve become wrapped up in QAnon and the concerning consequences as Q followers increasingly leave their screens and take extreme actions in the real world. As many as six candidates who support QAnon are running for Congress and will be on the ballot for the 2020 elections, threatening to upend long-held Republican establishment seats. This just happened to a five-term Republican congressman in Colorado. Travis warns that QAnon is an extremism problem, not a disinformation or political problem, and dismissing QAnon as a fringe threat underestimates how quickly their views can leapfrog into mainstream debates on the left and the right.