Trump's Pick for Intelligence Chief Follows a Slew of QAnon Accounts

[Newest Reality]

For a nominee to helm the U.S. government’s intelligence apparatus, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) draws on some unusual sources of information.


Ratcliffe’s official, verified campaign Twitter account follows several accounts on the political fringe, including a 9/11 Truther account with just one follower besides himself and four promoting the outlandish QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits that the world is run by a cabal of Democratic pedophile-cannibals — and has been ruled a potential source of domestic terrorism by the FBI.

The conspiracy theorists followed by Ratcliffe, whose nomination for director of national intelligence goes before the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday morning, cover a bizarre range of beliefs. They posit that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death to help Trump to take down the Deep State. Others claim a Democratic sex dungeon exists in in a Washington pizzeria. But Ratcliffe and the QAnon promoters he follows have one thing in common: utter loyalty to Trump.

Even before Ratcliffe’s QAnon interest was known, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), a committee member, told The Daily Beast, “Congressman Ratcliffe is a partisan politician who has spent the last two years promoting conspiracy theories in defense of Donald Trump.”

It’s not clear whether Ratcliffe followed conspiracy theorists himself, or whether it was done by someone else with access to his Twitter account. The QAnon accounts Ratcliffe follows were first noted by CQ Roll Call editor Ryan Kelly on Twitter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-pick-for-intelligence-chief-follows-a-slew-of-qanon-accounts/ar-BB13B0em

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Intelligence policy promulgated on the word of quacks and paranoids...lovely

[Karadeniz]

2. Oh, joy! Another moron.

[cayugafalls]

3. This is more than troubling, it is downright dangerous.

To have him in that position will pose an immediate danger to our country.

[underpants]

4. nutters quislings and television cranks

“Ratcliffe’s nomination to be DNI shows the bench to serve Trump at the highest levels has dwindled down to nutters, quislings and television cranks,” Peritz said. “Anyone with any intelligence knows to decline these positions. Still, the nation continues to pay the price.”

[Baked Potato]

5. Please let the *real* intel be compartmentalized somewhere away from these Fucks

JHC.

[crickets]

6. +1