Local FBI field office warns that “fringe political conspiracy theories,' including Qanon and Pizzagate, 'very likely motivate some domestic extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent activity.”
FBI agents in Phoenix have issued an assessment detailing what they say are the risks posed by people who believe in fringe conspiracies including Qanon and Pizzagate, which have been cited as the impetus for a series of violent incidents over the last three years.
The assessment was written by the FBI’s Phoenix field office and was not a product of the FBI headquarters or other members of the U.S. intelligence community. The FBI declined to comment. “This is the first FBI product examining the threat from conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists and provides a baseline for future intelligence products,” the assessment states.
Lawyers for Anthony Comello, a New York man who killed a suspected Gambino crime family boss in March, claimed he “became certain that he was enjoying the protection of President Trump himself, and that he had the president’s full support,” in part due to Qanon.
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