Fox News host Jesse Watters said he does not “support” the QAnon conspiracy theory.
He claimed his praise for the fringe group on his Saturday evening show, Watters’ World, should not “be mistaken for” support.
“While discussing the double standard of Big Tech censorship, I mentioned the conspiracy group QAnon, which I don’t support or believe in,” Watters said in a statement Sunday evening. “My comments should not be mistaken for giving credence to this fringe platform.”
Watters, who is also a co-host on The Five, had Eric Trump on as a guest to discuss social media censorship. Watters claimed Twitter is seeking to “interfere in the election” with its recent ban of thousands of QAnon accounts.
“Q can do some crazy stuff, with the pizza stuff, and the Wayfair stuff, but they’ve also uncovered a lot of great stuff when it comes to Epstein and it comes to the deep state. I never saw Q as dangerous as antifa,” he said.
The comment was met with widespread derision on social media.
“Q has not ‘uncovered a lot of great stuff when it comes to Epstein and when it comes to the Deep State.’ The Epstein reporting was by actual reporters at newspapers, bastardized by Q to fit a narrative about Satanic child cannibalism. Deeply irresponsible garbage by Fox News,” said NBC News reporter Ben Collins.
Q has not “uncovered a lot of great stuff when it comes to Epstein and when it comes to the Deep State.” The Epstein reporting was by actual reporters at newspapers, bastardized by Q to fit a narrative about Satanic child cannibalism. Deeply irresponsible garbage by Fox News. https://t.co/8iKhCK5AMr
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 26, 2020
QAnon, whose #WWG1WGA hashtag is pervasive in some corners of social media, is a right-wing online movement that originated on 4chan message boards in October 2017 with posts by an anonymous person going by “Q,” who claimed to be a government official with top-secret intelligence clearance. QAnon has made a variety of generally evidence-free “bread crumb” claims about President Trump covertly battling a series of “deep state” plots and global conspiracies, including an alleged ring of sex traffickers that includes Democratic politicians, business leaders, and Hollywood elites.
