5 Nov 2021

QAnon followers gather after rumour JFK Jr would herald return of Donald Trump presidency

From Morning Report, 8:38 am on 5 November 2021

Scores of QAnon followers gathered in downtown Dallas earlier this week in the hopes that John F Kennedy Jr would appear, heralding the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president.

Kennedy, the son of former President John F Kennedy, died in 1999 in a plane crash at the age of 38.

Some of the believers of this conspiracy say Kennedy did not die, that he has been in hiding.

One post from a widely followed QAnon social media account said that after Trump was reinstated as president, he would step down and JFK Jr would become president.

There was no return from the dead for JFK Jr though, and what was prophesised by the conspiracy theorists did not happen.

Psychologist and expert in radicalisation Sophia Moskalenko has researched QAnon extensively.

She spoke to Corin Dann.