In his one-term presidency, Donald Trump pushed out a number of notorious conspiracy theories tied to voter fraud, climate change and vaccines, but it wasn’t until recently that Trump expressed his explicit support for QAnon – which promotes the idea that Trump is the savior of the American people.

Despite the dangers of endorsing a movement the FBI has labeled a domestic terror threat, Trump posted a picture of himself wearing a Q lapel pin, with the QAnon catchphrases “The Storm is Coming” and “WWG1WGA,” on his Truth Social account earlier this week. He shared the post after an account called “Patriots in Control” originally published the photo on the platform. 

His latest embrace of QAnon comes as no surprise since Trump spent much of his presidency praising followers who were a part of the movement and even endorsed a Republican candidate for congress who is a prominent QAnon supporter. He has previously defended the movement saying it consists of people who “basically believe in good government.”

But what makes his recent endorsement especially disturbing is that it came hours after a man […]