QAnon followers flocked to Dallas for 'return' of JFK Jr.

Hundreds of radical who judge successful the right-wing conspiracy mentation QAnon gathered successful downtown Dallas connected Tuesday successful the hopes of seeing John F. Kennedy Jr. — a antheral who died much than 2 decades agone — reappear and contented enactment for erstwhile President Donald Trump.

Bystander video taken successful Dealey Plaza connected Tuesday showed radical — galore of them carrying QAnon flags oregon wearing QAnon apparel — gathered connected the grassy knoll of Dealey Plaza. The Dallas Morning News and The Washington Post study that the assemblage peaked successful the hundreds conscionable aft noon section time.

John F. Kennedy Jr. died successful a level clang successful 1999. However, the lad of President John F. Kennedy has assumed a important spot successful the QAnon lore.

While not each QAnon believers subscribe to JFK Jr.'s resurgence, Rolling Stone reports that mentation is becoming "increasingly popular" among followers. Some proponents judge that Kennedy Jr. ne'er died successful the '99 level clang and has since been surviving successful disguise arsenic a Trump protagonist named Vincent Fusca.

That faction of QAnon conspiracy theorists believed that JFK Jr. would travel retired of hiding connected predetermination time 2021 successful Dallas, the tract of his father's assassination. He would past play a captious relation successful re-installing Trump arsenic president.

The Dallas Morning News reports that the assemblage dispersed aft a fewer hours arsenic rainfall entered the area. Some of the conspiracy theorists predicted a revelation astatine a Rolling Stones performance successful the country that took spot connected Tuesday night, portion others pledged to instrumentality to Dealey Plaza aboriginal that evening.

QAnon is simply a conspiracy mentation that maintains that Trump is secretly warring a cabal of leftist politicians and celebrities that are abusing children. The conspiracy took clasp successful 2017 connected the connection committee 4chan, erstwhile a idiosyncratic began posting connected the tract claiming to beryllium an anonymous high-ranking authorities official.

Even though the anonymous authorities authoritative has not posted connected 4chan oregon its sister site, 8kun, successful implicit a year, the conspiracy has since spiraled onto much mainstream societal media sites — contempt platforms' efforts to suppress the dispersed of misinformation.

QAnon followers person already carried retired convulsive acts successful the existent world. Q followers were prevalent astatine the Jan. 6 riot astatine the U.S. Capitol, and 1 follower was arrested and aboriginal convicted aft brandishing a weapon astatine the Hoover Dam successful 2018.

Earlier this year, the FBI warned lawmakers that QAnon could go much militant successful the months and years to come.