Jerome Corsi, the Washington bureau chief for Alex Jones’ Infowars, has been growing increasingly frustrated with the anonymous source at the center of the “QAnon” conspiracy theory and is now publicly doubting a piece of “evidence” that he once touted as irrefutable proof that the conspiracy was real.
Earlier this year, Corsi emerged as one of the leading figures promoting a conspiracy theory known as “The Storm.” Adherents to The Storm believe that a high-level Trump administration official is leaking secret intelligence information to them via the anonymous message boards 4chan and 8chan; Corsi once claimed that President Trump himself had directly ordered that activity.
Corsi has begun to sour on Q, as the anonymous poster is known, after Q alleged that people like Corsi who are using the laughably fake conspiracy theory to enrich themselves. As a result, Corsi has started to publicly doubt the authenticity of a grainy photo of an ink pen that he once claimed “pretty much authenticates that QAnon is very close to Donald Trump.” In January, we reported on Corsi’s discovery of the pen photo:
“That’s the Laurel desk,” Corsi said while discussing the image in question. “It’s the one that Obama used and apparently Trump is also using at Camp David. That’s the desktop at Camp David.”
“The pen is a Montblanc ink pen that Trump has used for a long time,” Corsi continued. “That’s Camp David over the weekend and that picture had to have been taken by somebody who was there with President Trump. His pen on the desk; that pretty much authenticates that QAnon is very close to Donald Trump and present in some of these really important inner circle White House meetings.”
Now Corsi is telling his fans that the photos, like the one of the ink pen, “prove nothing” and are “easily misinterpreted”:
Think critically about WH photos of @POTUS pens, photos out Air Force One windows over Korean DMZ, etc NASA regularly captures photos & disseminates to NSA/CIA for classic PSYOP use. Photos as such prove nothing, are easily misinterpreted, BUT can look convincing to uninitiated
— Jerome Corsi (@jerome_corsi) May 11, 2018
Corsi has also claimed that posts allegedly authored by Q are actually part of a deep state “psyop” and has called the poster a “Marxist”:
New Q (post 4/28) DS PSYOP w NASA backing. Q posts after 4/28 are formulaic – written by advanced AI program. FORMULA: xyz from open source, followed by string of cryptic questions, promised BOOMs not delivered, leftist (Marxist) subtle indoctrination ($ = “profiteering”) @POTUS
— Jerome Corsi (@jerome_corsi) May 11, 2018
Abusive anti-Semitic strain growing daily among the New Q followers – is a clear flashing red sign for concern. PSYOP DS wants to turn Q movement AGAINST Israel. The Marxist anti-capitalist theme also clearly inconsistent w “America First” @realDonaldTrump make USA Wealthy AGAIN
— Jerome Corsi (@jerome_corsi) May 11, 2018
