WEBVTT - Going Undercover at the QAnon Conference 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:04.160 Q and On is now the most prolific online conspiracy 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:07.640 theory of the twenty one century. None of their predictions 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.160 came true. Q has vanished and the storm never came, 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.920 but Q and On is still alive. I'm Jake Hanrahan, 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.880 and this is Series two of Q Clearance, a podcast 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.000 shedding light on the ongoing Q and on conspiracy theory. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:28.600 This is a production of Kudatar Media and I Heart Radio. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.920 Today we'll be taking a look inside the fairly recent 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:38.320 Q and On Conference, a five hundred dollar a ticket 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:42.960 gathering for the Q and On true believers in Dallas, Texas. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.440 This took place over the weekend of May twenty nine, 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:51.440 so Memorial Weekend if you're an American. The conference's official 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:57.560 name was, awkwardly the Full Golden Country Patriot Roundup. It 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.960 hosted some major Q and On big wigs, including the 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:07.880 following people. Louie Gomert, a Republican attorney and former judge 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:13.759 serving as the US representative for Texas' first congressional district. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.800 Allen West, a retired U S Army lieutenant colonel, politician 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.199 and former member of the US Congress, And of course, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:29.320 Mike Flynn, a retired U s Army lieutenant general and 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:34.640 a former national security adviser to Donald Trump. He lasted 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.240 just twenty two days in that role before he was 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.480 forced to resign after he lied about his potential ties 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.880 to Russia. He was later given a pardon by Donald 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:51.600 Trump himself. Now we've mentioned him before, but Flynn has 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:56.520 been one of the most prominent big noises pledging unconditional 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.680 allegiance to Trump and Q and on. At this stage, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.600 I'm starting to think for him, at least, it's not 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.200 even a grift. I think he's genuinely lost the plot 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.799 a little bit. Anyway, as you can see from the 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.480 three people I just mentioned, Q and on is very 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.400 much still alive and well, even within the realm of 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:24.720 semi influential people, even if they are disgraced in the mainstream. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.679 Now it does sound kind of funny, but this Q 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.720 and on conference was taken very seriously by all participants, 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:37.400 as you can probably imagine, true to their authoritarian Q 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.920 and on ideals. Several journalists were kicked out of the event, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:47.960 including reporters from Vice and The Daily Beast. One journalist 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.920 who did manage to infiltrate the Q and On conference 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:58.440 was Stephen Monicelli. He's a freelance reporter and researcher covering extremism, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.800 particularly in the U S. He's going to give us 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.800 the bizarre inside scoop of what went down at the 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:10.280 so called the Full Golden Country Patriot Roundup a K A, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:16.040 Q and ON Conference one. So there was this thing recently, right, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.920 this this Q Q and on conference conference whatever it 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.440 was called. You went to it, Um, maybe maybe just 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.640 explain for us, like what was it? What was the 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.000 point of this thing? It was hosted and organized by 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.800 a husband and wife team. They go by Q and 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:39.080 On John and Q Queen Amy, And in the run 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.560 up to this they tried to explicitly deny the nature 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.440 of the event and its relationship to the Q and 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.119 Q and ON movement. There's some good local coverage here 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.200 in a paper that I write for occasionally called The 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.880 Dallas Observer, where they detailed this. Uh and of course 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:02.440 that's absurd given now only you know the blatant handles 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.360 that the organizers used in telegram, but also the featuring 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.040 of things like the acronym that stands for where we 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.280 go one we go all, which is something that was 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.400 cribbed from a movie called the squall, and it's really 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.839 only something that people who are deep in this movement 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.560 would recognize or understand or use. Yes, you did hear 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.720 that right. A couple calling themselves Q and On John 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:35.400 and Q Queen Amy using the tag where we go 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.200 one we go all set up this Q and on 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.520 conference and at first try to say, no, it's not 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.040 a Q and on conference. I swear to god, they 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.440 invited all the top Q and on big wigs. Of course, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.479 as we know because ARMM was on the inside, it 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.560 very much was a Q and on conference. Don't get 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.680 that confused. Listen on to any sort of baseline observer 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.080 that had a little bit of knowledge about what this 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.520 movement is. It was. It was blatantly a Q and 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.080 on conference, regardless of what they called it, right, And 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.800 they were trying to stop like Q and on researchers 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.080 or anti q and on researchers. I guess um going. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.640 I know several journalists were school it out. You managed 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.719 to get in right? How did you? How did you 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.440 do that? Right? So, uh, this happened in my own backyard. Basically, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.159 I'm based here in Dallas, and I hadn't really initially 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.880 planned on going Uh. It wasn't something that I thought 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.640 it was necessary for me to attend. But I saw 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.760 that Travis view. Uh, when one of the hosts of 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.160 the Q Anonymous podcast had posted an email where he 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.719 had been explicitly rejected based on his coverage, and you know, 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.920 they basically said, you're not nice enough to people here, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.320 so we're going to refund your ticket. Uh So when 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.920 I saw that, I thought to myself, oh, okay, well 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.520 this should be interesting. I might as well go. Initially, 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.719 I tried to go to Transparent Round. I had pitched 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.080 to a publication that's national here that I write for 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.760 pretty regularly, and they said, okay, well, why don't you 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.520 try to get a press pass um. I foolishly tried 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.320 to do that. Of course, they rejected it within an hour. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.080 They just looked at who I was affiliated with and 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.800 decided that, you know, no, sorry, we're all full of 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.120 course that was a lie. So here you see the 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:25.760 Q and On's, the people that apparently love unfettered freedom 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:30.240 and absolute free speech, decided that they didn't want journalists 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.520 that were unkind to them in their conference. They even 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.200 pretended that there weren't enough tickets. So Stephen did what 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.800 he could, he basically had to go underground to the 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.640 Q and On conference and they were still selling tickets 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.080 for the general admission, and so I asked them, hey, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.000 you know, can I buy a ticket and will you 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.440 let me in? And they basically said, nope, that's not 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.599 going to happen. Better luck next time. So a local 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.520 source ended up buying a ticket on my behalf so 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.840 none of my information would be linked to the ticket purchase, 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:02.840 and they picked it up for me so I, you know, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.640 wouldn't have to show my I d and the event 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.680 that I had to, and then they just passed it 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.840 along and I went inside. I just kind of dressed 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.280 the part. I shaved my beard, and I gave myself 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.560 a pretty basic white person's pseudonym, and uh, you know, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.320 had a little bit of a backstory so that if 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.200 anybody asked me who I was or what I did, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.240 that I'd be able to chat my way through it. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.760 And I had enough baseline knowledge of you know, the 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.720 speakers and some of the sayings of the movement to 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.400 be able to blend in and you know, kind of 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.640 respond whenever people chatted with me, while mostly trying to 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.960 just kick it back to them to better understand why 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.920 they were there and you know what they were thinking. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:42.720 Um so you were there on the cover, you got 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.200 to see it. I'm tell us what what did you 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.840 actually see this? What was you know, very clearly a 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.560 Q and on conference, I would describe the overall atmosphere 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.120 is not unlike going to really sort of fervent fire 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.960 and Brimstone Church. But I guess, you know, maybe the 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.880 pastor would be someone like Tucker Carlson. So that was 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.680 just the general tone and tenor of the event, and 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.880 a lot of people were, you know, getting really amped 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.960 up about the speakers. There were dozens of them over 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.280 the course of the three days where they had speakers. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.280 Uh and that was the bulk of the event, right, 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.360 you know, just people sitting in a room listening to speakers. Uh. 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.280 So a lot of that was captured on live streams 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.320 and that's accessible to folks that weren't there. But a 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.800 lot of the really interesting and I think importantly contextual 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:32.320 stuff happened around those events that were not live streamed. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.680 So there was an auction, for example, where they're saying 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.839 it was going to some veterans charities, which a bit 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.040 ironic at an event where they're openly promoting a military 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.040 coup where people were spending thousands of dollars on really 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.880 kitchy memorabilia that was either Q and On themed or 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.640 Revolutionary War themed, where they were you know, sort of 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:57.000 lionizing these folks like Flynn and Sydney Powell, uh by 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.680 featuring them in these you know, often like photoshops portraits 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.320 of revolutionary era war paintings and portraits where they would 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.960 you know, put their faces over like George Washington and 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.520 describe them as these fighters that are fighting the you know, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.240 early battles and shooting the first shots in this revolutionary war. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.920 So that atmosphere was you know, kind of like a party. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.920 They were all really into it. H some someone spent 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.040 six thousand, five hundred dollars on our shoddily made quilt 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.640 that had a big Q on it, nearly seven grand. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:35.520 Spent on a Q and On quilt, a blanket, a 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.320 cube blanket, nearly seven grand. This is the sort of 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.480 thing that was going on at the Q and On 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.680 conference in terms of the ruffles, the money making, and frankly, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:54.800 if I may say, the grift, but what were people 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:59.520 actually talking about. Stephen was listening in and talking to 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.600 people genuinely trying to find out what is going on 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.600 within the Q and on world right now. So sat 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.960 down across a young man at lunch who he described, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.920 you know, he was there because he's a believer that 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:17.480 there's some sort of international communist cabal or new world 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.320 order that's pulling all the strings and if only we 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.080 didn't have that, then we could be colonizing the Moon 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.840 and Mars, and you know, we wouldn't have any war. Uh. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:30.200 You know, he he would speculate that once there's this 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:35.120 awakening and unmasking of these you know, big hidden conspiracies, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.720 that then we would have this period of tumultuousness and 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.320 chaos which often sometimes people describe as the storm that 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.800 would lead to you know, this sort of new brave world. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.079 Other folks were talking about, um, you know, how they 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:53.959 think Christians should have total control over the government and 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.520 they need to take it back. Uh. You know, there's 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:01.520 a lot of casual racism and oftentimes transphobia and other 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.080 things like that, which you know are not unique to 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.920 an event like this, but you know, they help us 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.240 understand the mindsets of some of the folks that were there, 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.600 and probably to just kind of sum up all the threads. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.840 There's many of them, but it's it's just kind of 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.960 a mix of you know, things that were rooted in 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:26.920 satanic panic. You know, this fear of eluciferian satanic pedophile cabal. Uh. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.360 These these you know, ideas of a hidden communist government 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.680 or new world globalist order. Uh. There's you know, fear 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:40.319 of some sort of national or international quote unquote deep state. Uh. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.920 You know, people reacting very positively to jokes about hanging 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:51.000 democratic politicians or you know, the open reference to an 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.920 embrace of the idea of a military coup. Uh. Not 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.160 everybody that I spoke with would suddenly start espousing all 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.280 of these views was or even you know, even one 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.000 of them. You know, people were drawn to this for 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.160 a number of reasons, and all of them seem very 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.880 kind and normal when you just kind of chit chat 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.600 with them. But the more you maybe go down the 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.360 road of why are you here, who are you responding to? 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.440 The more it became clear that there's a set of 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:24.160 foundational beliefs underlying this movement that you know, as I mentioned, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.960 I don't think they're necessarily new, but they're novelly composed 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.960 in this in this way where it attracts you know 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.040 a lot of different people who ultimately seem like they're 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.840 attracted to this because they're afraid of either social change 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.080 or losing their you know, social position. Uh. They think, 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.920 maybe you know, their values or culture is being lost 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:50.040 or dying or being forced out of existence. Uh. And 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.760 so as a result, these these narratives are really appealing 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:57.280 to them because they give some explanation of who is 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.520 doing this or who are causing these perceived albums, as 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.319 opposed to any sort of systemic critique. Now, what Stephen 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.600 is saying here, I think is quite important. It's giving 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.560 you a small glimpse into the world of Q and 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.440 On and why they believe what they believe in. Yes, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.199 I've said it before. It's very easy to laugh and 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:23.040 sneer at them. What they believe in is frankly, absolutely ridiculous. However, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.679 there is a reason so many of these people are 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.400 falling into the grasp of Q and On, even now 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.600 after all of the predictions failed and Q completely vanished. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.240 Take this conference, for example, hundreds of people paying five 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.720 hundred dollars a ticket to talk to each other about 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:46.880 why this secret Satanic cabal of politicians is soon going 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.280 to be smited by a military coup and Trump will 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.880 come back. Blah blah blah. This is why I think 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.800 the information Stephen got whilst talking candidly to the Q 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.160 and On people, it's very interesting. Each shows that when 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:06.240 times change, some people simply cannot let go surprised. That's 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.440 nothing new. We all knew this. But in the Internet age, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.040 in the time of constant updates, very short attention spans, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.720 and unrelenting conspiracy theories, the people that just cannot let 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.840 the old times go, cannot look at themselves, cannot self criticize, 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.320 seem to be falling in love with Q and On. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.240 I think that says a lot. It says it cannot 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.040 be us, that's wrong, It's got to be everyone else. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.840 But instead of saying everyone else, they're also saying it's 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.360 got to be one of the most insane, intricate, satanic, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.840 evil conspiracy theories you've ever heard of. You get the 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:51.000 idea anyway, Stephen continues. Plenty of people on stage would 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.320 say things like, oh, it doesn't necessarily matter who Q 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.320 was or is. What it did was it awakened me, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.680 It opened by eyes, it uh taught me to how 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.120 how to do my own research. Um. And so for 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:11.600 the really true believer types, whether they're true believers there grifters, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.280 I don't know if it matters, they would you know, 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.320 basically say that it's irrelevant that these things that maybe 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.160 didn't happen, or that it's irrelevant that we you know, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.080 don't know who Q is. What matters is that they've 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.720 created this movement and that they are continuing to fight 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.520 for uh, you know, things like the return of the 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.800 real president, which you know they mean Donald Trump. Um. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.640 The difficulty really though, is it is it is? It 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.360 is a horizontal movement. So there's no singular ideology, there's 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.520 no singular narrative. Um. We had everything from you know, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:53.360 people discussing how Q opened their eyes to you know, 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:59.480 this idea of the deep state, to someone discussing how, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.640 you know, UFO technology is is being suppressed knowledge about 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.000 UFO technology is being suppressed. There was a common you know, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:12.600 mentions of things like adren of chrome or gosh, chlorine dioxide. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.800 You know, all these things that have been debunked and 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:20.200 don't really have any roots in reality, and yet they persist. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:25.480 So the fact that you know, Q has fallen into 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.800 the background, you know that they're sort of leader figure 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.920 has disappeared, it hasn't stopped some of the momentum, and 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:37.360 I think it's it's led to these figures like Flynn 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.960 and Sydney Powell and others to become the de facto 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.200 leaders of the movement. People would describe Flynn as the 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:51.280 General or you know, Sydney Pals the attorney general. Uh 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:57.320 they are lionized as these revolutionary leaders. Uh Q is gone, 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.120 but their influence remains and the town has been passed 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.639 to these these other leaders, while these other you know, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.879 sort of adherents and promoters continue to find ways to 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.720 keep the narrative going, regardless of how many ways these 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:17.000 threads have frayed. Yeah, definitely man Um. In terms of 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.080 Mike Flynn, Um, he was given some kind of talk, right, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.320 what was this guy going on about? He he at 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.080 one point, you know, the most viral clip that's come 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.359 out of this is he responded to a question about 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.960 why can't what happened in me and mar happened here? 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.320 And he answered in a way that suggested he thinks 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:42.200 it should happen. And the cup basically correct correct a 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.920 military coup based on these notions of a fraudulent election, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.400 which is basically what happened to me and mar I'm 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.919 not saying that the election was fraudulent, but that's you know, 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:56.560 the narrative that fueled this military coup. But yeah, he 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.879 seemed to embrace some of that. He was peddling, you know, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:06.119 the typical ideas that there there is some force that 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.000 is fighting against them, and that if you know, they 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.920 stick to the plan, basically, you know, they'll keep moving forward. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.200 You heard that, right. Mike Flynn, a retired U. S 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.560 Army lieutenant general who was the twenty five U S 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:26.199 National Security adviser for Donald Trump, did not say, no, 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.080 we shouldn't have an armed military coup in the US. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.200 This is what he actually said when again, someone said 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:38.160 should we have a military backed coup in the States 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:47.360 like they had in Miama? Recently? Trump one, Hey won, 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.320 he won, he won the popular vote. He won the 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.080 popular vote, and he won the other oral college volt 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.119 and people think q and On is no longer a 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:10.000 threat now. Mike Flynn later walked all of that back 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.119 on social media, saying, no, I don't think there should 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.000 be a coup, but they're in the fever pitch of 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.000 the Q and on conference, hundreds of people there, they 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.000 all paid a lot of money to get in, and 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.920 they see this guy that they call the General and 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.960 he says Trump won, he won fair and square. When 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.920 someone asks him if there should be a US military coup, 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:41.639 it hardly screams, let's remain peaceful. Q Clearance is brought 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:47.000 to you by iHeart Radio and Kudata Media. I'm Jake Hanrahan. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.159 You can find me online at Jake Underscore and Rahan 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:57.080 that's h A N A h A N. You can 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:03.400 get Q Clearance merch at dark washed dot net. 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