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“This is concerning. I would say that first and foremost,” Moe said Saturday. “As it turns out many of the posts that we’re discussing here today were made after this particular candidate was chosen as a Saskatchewan Party candidate.”
The tweets were first publicized Friday by the Broadbent Institute’s PressProgress, a digital publication with “a critical focus on fiscal and social conservative actors and ideas.”
QAnon is the baseless conspiracy theory that U.S. President Donald Trump is battling an underground, “deep-state” cabal of Satan-worshipping child sex traffickers. While QAnon began as a largely fringe movement on anonymous message boards, it’s recently picked up traction in more mainstream circles.
On Friday, The U.S. House of Representatives voted to condemn QAnon, which has beennamed by the FBI as a potential instigator of domestic terrorism.
Among the tweets Cooper liked included in the PressProgress post include one from an account called “Save Our Children” in July. The account appears to frequently post about QAnon and conspiracy theories.
“Satan is ruling the world,” the tweet says. “His time is 1,000 year reign his time is almost up and remember as soon as there is a worldwide announcement claiming world peace and security is the start of the great tribulation.”
Cooper was acclaimed last June to run for the party in Saskatoon Eastview for the Oct.26 vote after retiring from a nearly 40-year career in finance.
