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Posted: 2020-08-28T22:19:23Z | Updated: 2020-09-01T13:54:32Z

The Trump campaign is hosting events across the country this weekend to capitalize on whatever momentum the Republican National Convention created and mobilize the partys base of voters to turn out in November. HuffPost found that official campaign events in Georgia and Nevada will be hosted by people who promote QAnon, the hateful conspiracy theory that the FBI recently flagged as a domestic terror threat.

Neither masks nor social distancing appear to be mandatory for any of the gatherings and they have not been required at numerous Trump reelection events over the past two weeks, where campaign surrogates and supporters have frequently crowded into relatively small spaces without proper protection. Attendees are required to waive their right to sue the campaign and the host venue if they contract the coronavirus at the event.

QAnon adherents baselessly claim that the world is controlled by a cabal of satanic, pedophiliac Democrats and wealthy Hollywood socialites who run a global sex trafficking ring and feed on the blood of abused children. They claim that President Donald Trump is engaged in a secret battle against the satanists and their so-called deep state supporters in government. QAnon rhetoric is steeped in anti-Semitism and threats of violence, and the FBI has warned it poses a domestic terrorism threat .

The GOP has, at times, made half-hearted efforts to distance itself from this extremist movement, even as a QAnon-er is set to win a congressional seat as a Republican. But QAnon believers are some of the presidents most enthusiastic supporters and Trump who readily embraces conspiracy theories retweets QAnon accounts and has welcomed support from the cult-like faction .

A Black Voices for Trump event in Mableton, Georgia, on Friday evening features Angela Stanton-King, who is the Republican nominee in the November election to fill the House seat of recently deceased civil rights icon John Lewis. THE STORM IS HERE , Stanton-King tweeted earlier this month, using a QAnon reference to the moment Trump will supposedly arrest and execute his enemies.

Like most QAnon adherents, Stanton-King appears to be convinced that most world events are in some way linked to sex trafficking, a problem that QAnon believers vastly overstate using bogus statistics . TRUTH BOMB , she tweeted in July. This isnt about COVID 19 or BLACK LIVES MATTER. This is a major cover up for PEDOPHILIA and HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

Stanton-King, who received a pardon from Trump earlier this year for her role in a car theft ring years ago, has also used Twitter to sow doubt about the risks of COVID-19, which has killed more than 180,000 Americans. In May, she praised Trump for promoting hydroxychloroquine as a miracle cure for the virus, despite a lack of medical evidence and the risk of severe side effects. In July, she predicted COVID-19 will disappear altogether after the election , implying that the virus is a hoax to defeat Trump. Stanton-King is speaking at Fridays event alongside Dr. Robin Armstrong, a physician who said he has provided hydroxychloroquine to nursing home patients .

In order to register for the Black Voices for Trump event, attendees have to voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and waive, release, and discharge the Trump campaign, the venue and their affiliates from all liability.