Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Baffles Allies

“This summer, Donald Trump is taking something that began during his presidency to a whole new level. His dalliance with content connected to QAnon — the deranged pro-Trump conspiracy theory that features tales of powerful Democrats running a pedophilic secret society — has gone from a game of footsie to what appears to be an open embrace,” Rolling Stone reports.

“But if you ask members of the ex-president’s inner orbit why this is happening now, you get a mix of responses, including abject confusion.”