Meet the Republican donors helping QAnon reach Congress
Republican party leaders linked to the White House helped boost the primary campaign of a QAnon supporter with a history of making racist and bigoted statements, campaign finance filings show.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s victory in the 11 August primary runoff for Georgia’s 14th Congressional district all but assures that a backer of the baseless and antisemitic QAnon conspiracy theory will be elected to Congress in November. Her primary opponent, John Cowan, ran as a pro-Trump, pro-life, and pro-gun conservative.
The filings reveal donations from:
- groups connected to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and his wife,
- the chairman of the board of prominent conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation,
- the attorney who represented “Covington Kid” Nicholas Sandmann in defamation suits against the Washington Post and CNN,
- and multiple Republican mega-donors.
Meadows was given the opportunity to disavow or denounce QAnon in multiple television interviews on Sunday, but he demurred, claiming not to know what it was.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/24/mind-bogglingly-irresponsible-meet-the-republican-donors-helping-qanon-reach-congress
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