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Another user called Christine said that “nothing is a coincidence. They are trying to start a race war.”The organizer of a massive QAnon conference in Dallas next month, John Sabal—known online as “QAnon John”—also weighed in, claiming everyone was simply watching a “movie.”“The silver lining in what’s going to come out of another series or riots, and looting is that EVERYONE, regardless of which side of the aisle will KNOW that this NEVER had anything to do with ‘Justice for George Floyd,’” Sabal wrote.Another influential QAnon promoter, known as Pepe Deluxe, wrote that he hadn’t followed the trial—because that was what the mainstream media wanted him to do—but he still managed to lay out a detailed conspiracy theory concluding that Floyd’s murder and Chauvin’s trial were simply a “psyop” orchestrated by the freemasons.
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