“I don’t even know anything about it. I don’t even know if it’s credible,” Mark Meadows said Sunday.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said that the administration doesn’t even know what the QAnon conspiracy theory is after President Donald Trump spoke favorably of its supporters last week. Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace confronted Meadows over the president’s remarks during a Sunday interview, asking the chief of staff if the president disavows the completely baseless theory. The conspiracy theory claims—without any evidence—that Trump is working to save the world from a satanic cult of cannibals and pedophiles connected to Hollywood, Democratic lawmakers and the so-called “deep state” government. FBI documents reported on last year have shown that the bureau believes adherents to the conspiracy theory represent a domestic terror threat. “Well, listen, we—we don’t even know what it is,” Meadows told Wallace, saying that he needed to Google what QAnon was last week after the president was asked directly about it. Get your unlimited Newsweek trial > “It’s not a central part of what the president is talking about. I don’t even know anything about it.
