In an interview with The Western Journal earlier in September, former National Security Advisor and retired three-star General Michael Flynn shared his theory on the possible origin of the QAnon movement, speculating that QAnon hosts many of the hallmarks of government-fueled “information warfare” rather than a movement that organically manifested among conservative circles.
The emergence of QAnon dates back to late 2017 when an anonymous poster on 4Chan asserted to hold a Q-level government security clearance (which is the equivalent of a DoD Top Secret security clearance within the Department of Energy), sharing posts claiming that President Trump was embroiled in an ongoing fight against an elite pedophile ring and later went on to assert that Trump was still secretly acting as the president following the outcome of the 2020 election.
