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
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.
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