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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:45 PM Aug 2018

A NEW LOW Trump Meets QAnon Kook Who Believes Democrats Run Pedophile Cult

Source: The Daily Beast



Lionel Lebron said he got a personal invite to the White House — and took advantage to post photos and Q clues on social media.

ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
WILL SOMMER

08.24.18 6:08 PM ET

On Thursday, President Donald Trump posed for an Oval Office photo with one of the leading promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that top Democrats are part of a global pedophile cult.

YouTube conspiracy theorist Lionel Lebron was in the White House for an event on Thursday, according to a video Lebron posted online. During the visit, Lebron and his wife posed for a smiling picture with Trump in the Oval Office.

Lebron is one of the internet’s leading promoters of QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory based on a series of anonymous clues posted to internet forums. QAnon believers have interpreted the clues, which they claim without evidence are coming from a highly placed source in the Trump administration, to mean that Trump and the military are engaged in a high-stakes shadow war against a supposed globalist pedophile cult. The conspiracy theory has caught on with Trump supporters, who have held up QAnon-related signs and wear QAnon shirts to the president’s rallies.

Lebron claimed to have received a “special guided tour of the White House” before posing for pictures with Trump. In a video posted Friday, Lebron said he didn’t use the brief encounter with the president to ask Trump about QAnon or its slogan, “Where we go one, we go all.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-in-oval-office-meets-promoter-of-qanon-conspiracy-theory-that-says-democrats-run-pedophile-cult?ref=home

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A NEW LOW Trump Meets QAnon Kook Who Believes Democrats Run Pedophile Cult (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
Well maybe Gump should have invited his great pal Jeffrey Epstein pecosbob Aug 2018 #1
With every passing day... slumcamper Aug 2018 #2
These guys central scrutinizer Aug 2018 #3
Blood libel myth Snellius Aug 2018 #4
It's because they are the biggest projectors since IMAX ThoughtCriminal Aug 2018 #13
Must be to think Hillary the ringleader of kid trafficking plot. Snellius Aug 2018 #15
He needs to change channel on reality, he's tuning into alt reality. Mc Mike Aug 2018 #5
If Dems don't Mid Term talk: SayItLoud Aug 2018 #6
Amen to that! It needs to be one of THE key messages. benfranklin1776 Aug 2018 #9
This man should appoint a Supreme Court Justice @SenatorCollins ? You trust his judgement/ values? riversedge Aug 2018 #7
I remember when Lionel ruined Air America Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2018 #8
Are you fucking kidding me? This is the same fucking "Lionel" that was bullwinkle428 Aug 2018 #10
Yup. That's him Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2018 #11
By the time Orange is done the next President will have to tear down and rebuild the White House... 47of74 Aug 2018 #12
I had no idea Lionel was a Qanon idiot... xor Aug 2018 #14
Didn't he used to have a show on Air America Radio? oberliner Aug 2018 #16
Yup Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2018 #18
Fascinating oberliner Aug 2018 #20
His voice used to irritate me and he was more right talking than liberal kimbutgar Aug 2018 #17
I don't remember him from way back when xor Aug 2018 #19

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)
1. Well maybe Gump should have invited his great pal Jeffrey Epstein
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:54 PM
Aug 2018

if they wanted to discuss pedophiles...

slumcamper

(1,606 posts)
2. With every passing day...
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 08:00 PM
Aug 2018

I find it increasingly difficult to stomach the deplorable "citizens" of this nation whose utter ignorance, gullibility, and hatreds drove them to the polls to vote for this flim-flam man. My respect for people whose demented and twisted sense of civic responsibility justified, in their minds, supporting this monstrosity has pretty much hit bottom.

I find myself in a peculiar state of psychological civil war.

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
4. Blood libel myth
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 08:30 PM
Aug 2018

Why do they fixate on pedophilia? Just because it's like the most evil evil they can come up with? With children. Reminds of the old antisemitic canard of "blood libel" where Jews were accused of kidnapping Christian babies and ritualistically drinking their blood. You have to wonder if they really believe or that they know they can convince the even dumber that it's true. Can of mass schizophrenia where if you think it, it's true.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
13. It's because they are the biggest projectors since IMAX
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:46 PM
Aug 2018

But they don't want to talk about Rep. Dennis Hastert and a number of other notable Republicans who enabled and covered for the Grand Old Perverts.

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
15. Must be to think Hillary the ringleader of kid trafficking plot.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 04:49 AM
Aug 2018

Hillary? A well-off 70-year-old grandmother of 2? Some of this stuff is so loony you wonder if it's not just partisan myth.

SayItLoud

(1,702 posts)
6. If Dems don't Mid Term talk:
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 08:45 PM
Aug 2018

We NEED to keep a check on this WH, it's a BIG missed opportunity to scoop up the outer fringe of the Fn MORON's loyalist Cult, the tRUMP voters who are now on the fence about having voted for him and ANY and ALL somewhat sane RePUBES that remain.

Impeachment talk will drive his base and more, but KEEP A CHECK ON THIS administration will be a message that's heard.

VOTE.

benfranklin1776

(6,445 posts)
9. Amen to that! It needs to be one of THE key messages.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 09:48 PM
Aug 2018

Said loud and clear and over and over particularly when voters in special elections who voted Democratic, and ordinarily would not have, indicated in exit polls this is their motivating concern. We need to champion the constitution and quit letting the party of Russia wrap themselves in it.

riversedge

(70,219 posts)
7. This man should appoint a Supreme Court Justice @SenatorCollins ? You trust his judgement/ values?
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 09:10 PM
Aug 2018












Francis Sweeney
? @Franrobsweeney
44m44 minutes ago
Replying to @kylegriffin1

This man should appoint a Supreme Court Justice @SenatorCollins ? You trust his judgement/ values?



 

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
8. I remember when Lionel ruined Air America
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 09:21 PM
Aug 2018

After that hack Mark Green bought the network, he canceled Sam Seder and replaced him with this putz.
The audience begged Green not to do it. But he insisted on replacing their best host with a rude libertarian douche.
Lionel went on to lose half of the morning audience and got canceled. The network crashed soon after.
Since AAR, the condescending Boomer shit has tried to salvage his career by veering fringe right and becoming a conspiracy acolyte on Infowars.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
10. Are you fucking kidding me? This is the same fucking "Lionel" that was
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:33 PM
Aug 2018

on Air America network? He was by leaps and bounds the worst "progressive" talk show host I've ever heard.

 

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
11. Yup. That's him
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:58 PM
Aug 2018

Last edited Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:37 PM - Edit history (1)

The one-time supposed intellectual has Roseanne Syndrome.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
12. By the time Orange is done the next President will have to tear down and rebuild the White House...
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:25 PM
Aug 2018

...to get the stench out of there.

xor

(1,204 posts)
14. I had no idea Lionel was a Qanon idiot...
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 01:52 AM
Aug 2018

I never liked the guy and have always found him difficult to listen to, but I didn't think he would go that low.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
16. Didn't he used to have a show on Air America Radio?
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 07:43 AM
Aug 2018
"LIONEL will be an eclectic mixture of current events and off-the-wall topics infused with his special brand of humor," said AAR President MARK GREEN. "Because he's one of the biggest names in talk radio, LIONEL will be a very important addition to our line-up and affiliate base."

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/23524/lionel-joins-air-america


Same guy, right?

kimbutgar

(21,148 posts)
17. His voice used to irritate me and he was more right talking than liberal
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:56 AM
Aug 2018

Stopped listening went back to Hayward stern until Stephanie Miller came in.

xor

(1,204 posts)
19. I don't remember him from way back when
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 04:18 PM
Aug 2018

But I recall hearing him back a few years ago. I didn't listen too much because of his annoying voice and personality, but even though he seemed far more conservative than liberal, he did occasionally say some things that made sense to me on some topics. I checked out his twitter feed to see what he's been up to over the last few years, and he seems to have gone 100% MAGA-t. I can't tell any difference between him and any other member of the Cult 45.

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