1/ I don't trust the motivation behind anything the Trumps do. But this DOJ/DHS/White House effort around child trafficking is especially smelly due to the amount of effort this President and his campaign have put in to courting and leveraging Q Anon.
2/ Ivanka hosted a summit at the White House earlier this year which a number of notable groups active on human trafficking refused to attend, citing a chasm between "rhetoric and reality". washingtonpost.com/local/human-tr…
3/ At the meeting, Donald signed an EO to combat human trafficking and online child exploitation. “I have many issues,” he said at the time. “I have never seen such enthusiasm for a single issue as I have for human trafficking.” nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/…
4/ Indeed, could that 'enthusiasm' be primarily showing up in social media stats the White House monitors? @kevinroose has been following the performance of posts on these topics, which are absolutely driven by the rabid, diffuse Q network:
5/ The social "pop" is evident- in August, on the announcement of a modest $35 million investment in the issue, Ivanka dominated Facebook's top news links, in what was hardly the most important story of the day.
6/ I could be wrong. Perhaps this is all on the up and up. But it smells. We know this is an administration that has repeatedly harnessed conspiracy theories to drive engagement. Could Ivanka be pursuing this issue with Wolf and Barr in part to activate the Q network? I think so.
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