Bipartisan congressmembers move to condemn QAnon as 'conspiracy-mongering cult'
Bipartisan House members are coming together to condemn QAnon — but not everyone is thrilled.
On Tuesday, Reps. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) and Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) introduced a congressional resolution condemning the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. They're hoping for bipartisan "repudiation to this dangerous, anti-Semitic, conspiracy-mongering cult," Malinowski tweeted, though the press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee had other priorities. In a reply to Malinowski, Michael McAdams, who works for the committee dedicated to electing more GOP House members, asked why he didn't condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has been misleadingly accused of being anti-Semitic in the past.
McAdams probably had a reason for being dismissive of condemning QAnon: House Republicans are preparing to welcome at least one QAnon-believing candidate into the fold this fall. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who won a Republican runoff in a conservative Georgia district, has publicly supported QAnon and spread its unfounded conspiracies for years. For example, Greene speculated in a blog post that the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a counter-protester was killed was an "inside job," CNN reported Tuesday. Meanwhile, Riggleman won't be headed back to the House last year after he was ousted by a more conservative Republican primary challenger.
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