Trump’s DC Hotel Jacking Rates for March 4: QAnon Fantasy Play Date
The grift goes on, as does the mainlining of any conspiracy theory the Q-people and MAGAts can cling to, with a sidedash of the sovereign citizen movement:
QAnon’s most dedicated followers still believe that former President Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential election, is yet to be sworn in.
March 4, 2021 is a day they have marked in their diaries, insisting that is the date when Trump will be inaugurated in Washington, DC, and, ultimately, return to power.
Coincidentally, Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC is hiking up the prices of suites around that period. The hotel, just blocks away from the White House, has almost tripled the rates for some rooms on the nights of March 3 and 4[…]
From Forbes: Trump’s DC Hotel Is Jacking Up Rates For QAnon’s Next Special Date
The theory borrows from the sovereign citizens movement, which espouses that a law enacted in 1871 secretly turned the U.S. into a corporation and ended the American government put in place by the founding fathers. Accordingly, the true inauguration date was not January 20, as the rest of the world believes. The conspiracy theorists contend that the real inauguration will happen on March 4, the date on which presidents were sworn in prior to the 1933 passage of the 20th amendment. Still following? QAnon followers believe that Trump will return to power on March 4 as the 19th president of the United States. The last true president, the theory goes, was Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president, who was in office in 1871 when the United States turned into a corporation. Got it? […]
This shouldn’t be surprising.
It’s almost as if he has a plan…a plan for insurrection, and also keeping the grift going.
Background on the Sovereign Citizens Movement from SPLC here.