QANON CRACKPOTS DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THAT JFK JR. DID NOT APPEAR ON TUESDAY

Will QAnon fans believe anything? HUNDREDS of conspiracy theorists gather on grassy knoll where JFK was assassinated expecting his dead son JFK Junior to reappear and announce 2024 run with Trump

 

By Melissa Koenig 

Daily Mail

November 2, 2021

A crowd began to form on the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas as they waited for JFK Jr. to make his big announcement

 

Hundreds of QAnon supporters gathered on the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas on Tuesday in anticipation of President John F. Kennedy's long-dead son JFK Jr. announcing that he is alive and will run as Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate in 2024.

John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts in 1999, along with his wife, Carolyn Bessette and her sister, Lauren. Navy divers found their bodies still strapped into their seats in the wreckage 18 hours after his plane, which he was piloting, disappeared. 

Pictures posted to social media by Steven Monacelli, the publisher of Protean magazine, showed scores of people gathered outside the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas at around 8pm on Monday, demonstrating the staggering lure of QAnon. 

Most were wearing shirts proudly displaying their support for Trump, with one women seen wearing a campaign-style T-shirt emblazoned with the words: 'Trump/JFK Jr.'

The next day, crowds could be seen on the grassy knoll where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, as they eagerly awaited the return of his long-dead son JFK Jr.  

The QAnon crowd recited the Pledge of Allegiance at 12.29pm, expecting JFK Jr. to make his announcement at 12.30pm, and chanted, 'Let's Go Brandon,' a euphemism for ''Fuck Joe Biden,' as they held a Trump/Kennedy flag.

As Monacelli writes, they were there due to a 'popular QAnon theory recently' that 'JFK Jr., of the Kennedy family, will be making a big announcement at Dealey Plaza by the grassy knoll.'  

The event shows the power the QAnon movement still wields among its diehard supporters.  

When he didn't show up, supporters said he would instead come at a Rolling Stones concert later in the evening, as some became convinced that people in the area were dead celebrities - including Robin Williams and Richard Pryor, according to the Daily Beast. 

 

A popular QAnon theory, though, holds that he faked his deat

 

JFK Jr. is a popular figure within the QAnon conspiracy movement, with some believing that he is in fact Q, the group's anonymous leader. 

In 2019, Forbes reports, some believers expected him to return on July 4, again as Trump's running mate.

The conspiracy theorists now reportedly believe JFK Jr., the son of former President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, will reveal he switched political affiliations and faked his own death to avoid retribution, according to Gizmodo. 

Some of the supporters were seen chanting 'Let's Go Brandon,' a euphemism for 'Fuck Joe Biden' as they held a Trump/Kennedy flag

 

One of the shirts appeared to be a campaign-style T-shirt reading 'Trump/JFK Jr. 2024'

 

 

According to the theory, he would announce that he was running with former President Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential election, but Trump would step down and let JFK Jr. step in as president and appoint former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as his vice president. 

Trump would then 'most likely' become the king of kings, a popular QAnon Telegram account with more than 100,000 subscribers wrote about the conspiracy in a post on Monday. It did not specify what becoming the 'king of kings' would entail.

They also believed that after JFK Jr. would appear, the clocks would go back an hour, people would adopt the Julian calendar, and the date would go back to October 20, according to Newsweek.

JFK Jr., the theory posits, will then help usher in a new age American prosperity, as his father did in the 1960s.

Another user on Telegram, under the name Negative48, also offered the theory that JFK, JFK Jr. and Jackie Kennedy would all reappear, after which JFL would tour the world for seven days, transfer the presidency back to Trump and die, Gizmodo reports, even though that is not how presidential power works. 

It is unclear why the QAnon followers thought JFK Jr. would appear at the location where his father was famously murdered in 1963.

But despite the fervor, 12.30pm came and went, Monacelli writes, and JFK Jr. did not appear.

One person on Telegram wrote afterwards: 'I'm sad for everybody. We now look like a bunch of liars, but let's keep the faith,' BBC Journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh said.