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Meanwhile, pastor, election truther, and Republican congressional candidate Jackson Lahmeyer hosted QAnon figurehead Michael Flynn on a live stream to speak about the anniversary of the riot.
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But a growing number of QAnon believers will never get to see “the end of this.” On Thursday, hours after it was announced that QAnon podcaster Doug Kuzma had died from complications due to COVID-19, another QAnon influencer was dead.Cirsten Weldon wrote a book about QAnon and regularly posted videos on YouTube about the conspiracy theory. Like almost all in the QAnon community, Weldon was an anti-vaxxer and had shared many conspiracy theories and false information about COVID-19 and the vaccines.Weldon had recently traveled to California and on Dec. 30 was hospitalized and tested for COVID. She told her followers that she had refused treatment by the hospital and questioned why she would need oxygen.
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