Anderson Cooper Interviews Ex-QAnon Follower Who Believed CNN Anchor Ate Babies

 

Anderson Cooper Interviews Ex-QAnon Follower Who Believed CNN Anchor Ate Babies

 

"I apologize for thinking that you ate babies," the former conspiracy theorist told the CNN host.

 

By Lee Moran, HuffPost US

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/anderson-cooper-qanon-conspiracy-theorist_n_601531ebc5b6bde2f5bfb487?ri18n=true&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

 

A former follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory has apologized to Anderson Cooper for once thinking that the CNN anchor ate babies.

 

Jitarth Jadeja told Cooper that he “100%” believed the bonkers idea, which he claimed was prevalent among supporters of the unhinged movement, in a preview clip released Friday of an upcoming CNN investigation into QAnon.

 

“Did you, at the time, believe that Democrats, high-level Democrats and celebrities were worshipping Satan, drinking the blood of children?” Cooper asked Jadeja, who ditched the movement in 2019 after watching YouTube videos that debunked its premises.

 

“Anderson, I thought you did that,” Jadeja responded. “And I would like to apologize for that right now. So, I apologize for thinking that you ate babies. But, yeah, 100%.”

 

A surprised Cooper asked Jadeja, who lives in Sydney, Australia, if he “actually” believed he “was drinking the blood of children.”

 

“Yes, I did,” replied Jadeja, who said some followers still think Cooper is a robot.

 

“I at one stage believed that QAnon was part of military intelligence, which is what he says,” Jadeja recalled. “But on top of that, that the people behind him were actually a group of fifth-dimensional, intradimensional, extraterrestrial bipedal bird aliens called blue aliens.”

 

“I was so far down in this conspiracy black hole that I was essentially picking and choosing whatever narrative that I wanted to believe in,” he added.