This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. JFK Jr began trending on Twitter after the comedy duo The Good Liars spotted Mr Fusca at the CPAC conservative conference in July in a video that went viral with 14,000 likes and 2,000 retweets. In the meantime, the lore goes, Kennedy has been in hiding, disguised as a middle-aged, fedora-wearing financial services manager from Pittsburgh named Vincent Fusca. The timeline has kept shifting with each passing milestone. Then, he was to have revealed himself in 2019, to replace Mike Pence on the president’s 2020 re-election ticket, or maybe the 2021 “reinstatement” (supposedly scheduled for 13 August – although there is no mechanism for reinstating a former president), or maybe the 2024 campaign. First he supposedly appeared as Q himself (or close to Q) with the “Q drops” of cryptic information. The story goes that after faking his death, Kennedy returned two decades later to help Mr Trump drain the swamp.
Will Sommer, author of the upcoming book Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped America and a longtime observer of the conspiracy theory, estimates that about 20 per cent of Q followers believe in JFK Jr’s re-emergence, but that those who do, “100 per cent believe”.Ī memorial to John F Kennedy Jr following his death featuring a metal sculpture recalling his salute, aged three, to his father’s funeral cortege in 1963 (AFP via Getty Images) And while only a fraction appear to believe the JFK Jr angle, experts say it is still damaging to their relationships and their grasp on reality.
The theory is strange even by the standards of QAnon – which claims Democrats and Hollywood celebrities are involved in a secret cannibalistic cult which Donald Trump is secretly battling, a theory expounded in cryptic internet messages by a mysterious prophet-like figure known as Q. Of course, he also failed to attend that event.īut that hasn’t stopped people from speculating that the deceased Kennedy is still alive.Ī viral video has even shown a middle-aged man that some QAnon devotees claim is JFK Jr himself. When JFK junior unsurprisingly failed to make an appearance, people in the crowd suggested he would in fact make an appearance at a Rolling Stones concert later that day. The crowds gathered at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday (YouTube/AFP)Īnd those devotees gathered on Tuesday for what they expected would be a dramatic revelation at the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas – but was in fact more of a damp squib.
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