NEW: "I'm directing Sec of State Mike Pompeo to notify the @UN Security Council that the #UnitedStates intends to restore virtually all of previously suspended United Nations sanction on #Iran" per @POTUS "It's a snapback. Not uncommon"
"If and when I win the election, within the 1st month, #Iran will come to us and they are going to be asking for a deal so quickly cause they are doing very poorly" predicts @POTUS
Calls #JCPOA "a short-term" deal where US got "nothing"
"When the #UnitedStates entered into the #IranDeal it was clear that the United States would also have the right to restore the UN sanctions that would prevent #Iran from developing a nuclear weapon" per @POTUS
"Here at home through Operation Legend we are confronting the wave of crime in Democrat-run American cities that's absolutely shocking" says @POTUS "They're a mess because they don't get it"
#QAnon-"I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate" per @POTUS
"I have heard that it is gaining in popularity...I've heard that these are people who just love our country" &don't like seeing protests like in #Portland
"I haven't heard that" says @POTUS when told by reporter that some #QAnon supporters see him as secretly saving the world from a Satanic cult of pedophiles & cannibals
"Is that supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing?"
"If I can help save the world from problems I'm willing to do it" adds @POTUS "And we are, actually. We're saving th world from a radical left philosophy that will destroy this country and when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow"
Some background on the @FBI's views regarding #QAnon
news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-…
"We're largely out of #Iraq. We're down to a very few soldiers" per @POTUS asked about mtg w/#Iraq PM Thursday "We're getting out of these endless wars, these ridiculous endless wars"
"It's very sticky getting out" he adds
"A lot of times, we makes deals, they don't have ten cents, these countries" per @POTUS about deal with #UAE for #F35s
"They have the money" he says, praising the fighter jets as "totally stealth - can't see it"
Also, research by @AmarAmarasingam & @_MAArgentino published by @CTCWP: "QAnon is arguably no longer simply a fringe conspiracy theory but an ideology that has demonstrated its capacity to radicalize to violence individuals at an alarming speed"
ctc.usma.edu/the-qanon-cons…
Some have noted a similarity between some of what President Trump said- "...when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow..." -and a #QAnon post from 2018: "If America falls, the world falls"
But there may not be any connection...
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"Some Q drops are fairly generic in their language and, because there are so many of them, could sound like some things that Trump says" @AmarAmarasingam tells me "But that’s not important"
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"What’s important is that Trump is not openly & clearly disavowing what should be a fairly easy belief system & community to disavow" @AmarAmarasingam adds "And this bizarre reluctance is only feeding the confidence of this community that they are on to something"
re #QAnon
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