QAnon faithful await dead JFK Jr’s return

One QAnon theory holds that JFK Jr faked his own death
One QAnon theory holds that JFK Jr faked his own death
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Dozens of followers of the QAnon movement were drawn to Dallas yesterday by a theory that John F Kennedy Jr would reveal that he had faked his death and intended to serve as vice-president under a re-elected Donald Trump.

Several prolific QAnon conspiracy theorists spread online prophecies that the former president’s son, who died in a plane crash in 1999 aged 39, would appear at Dealey Plaza, the spot where his father was assassinated in 1963.

The prediction was the latest in a series that have emanated from pseudonymous posters with large online followings stemming from the central QAnon belief that Trump will take back the presidency and launch the Storm, a mass arrest of paedophiles running the so-called Deep State. A poll in May