The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1993, ’95, ’96 and ’98 about growing up on a Georgia farm, entering politics and his advocacy for human rights and peace. Carter died Dec. 29 at age 100.
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America is mourning the loss on Sunday of one of the most genuinely decent men ever to sit in the Oval Office. Even to his critics, Jimmy Carter was a model of empathy and integrity as an American president. After his presidency, he proved an even greater role model, working tirelessly to help those without homes or hope. He gave us 100 years of a life committed to helping others and a lasting lesson in what it means to be truly a public servant.
Both President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump offered moving tributes to Carter.
President Biden spoke to the nation from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday evening. In his remarks he noted that Carter showed “what it means to live a life of meaning and purpose, a life of principle, faith and humility.”
He added, “Some look at Jimmy Carter and see a man of a bygone era with honesty and character. Faith and humility mattered, but I don’t believe it’s a bygone era,” Biden said. “We’d all do well to try to be more like Jimmy Carter.”
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President-elect Trump declared “The challenges Jimmy faced as president came at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.”
After Biden made his remarks about Carter, he took questions from reporters. The media immediately saw the testimonial comments as an opportunity to get a dig on Trump and Biden seemed eager to oblige them.
When a reporter asked Biden what President-elect Trump should take from Carter’s legacy, Biden replied:
“Decency, decency, decency. … Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone who needed something and just keep walking? Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk?”
It was a jarring disconnect from the moment of unity by both presidents.
It was also a curious choice of presidents for Biden to make the comparison. There is another thing that Carter would not do: pardon a family member in an influence-peddling scandal.
Throughout his presidency, Carter was faced with allegations that his brother Billy Carter took $200,000 from a Libyan dictator as a “loan” and only paid back $1,000. There were also allegations of even more money derived from open influence peddling from foreign sources.
Sound familiar?
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Indeed, Biden defenders immediately tried to use Carter to deflect criticism from the president after he pardoned his son Hunter by falsely claiming that he pardoned Billy.
Grant Stern, an editor for the advocacy group Occupy Democrats, wrote: “Jimmy Carter pardoned his brother Billy Carter, who took over $200,000 from Libya as its foreign agent. George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil Bush for his role in the S&L scandals of the 1980s. Nobody thinks those pardons defined either presidency. Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter Biden won’t either.”
Neither of those pardons “defined either presidency” because neither of those pardons existed.
(On ABC, “The View” co-host Ana Navarro even claimed various family pardons, including mentioning another president to defend the Hunter Biden pardon: “Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother-in-law, Hunter deButts… But tell me again how Joe Biden ‘is setting precedent’?” Many immediately told her instead how Wilson did not have a brother-in-law named “Hunter deButts,” let alone pardon him).
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In reality, despite lingering questions and investigations, Carter refused to pardon his brother. Instead, he told the American people the truth:
“I am deeply concerned that Billy has received funds from Libya and that he may be under obligation to Libya. These facts will govern my relationship with Billy as long as I am president. Billy has had no influence on U.S. policy or actions concerning Libya in the past, and he will have no influence in the future.”
Unlike Carter, President Biden lied repeatedly to the voters in denying that (1) Hunter had any dealings with the Chinese, (2) he ever met his son’s clients, (3) he knew of any of these dealings, and (4) he would ever pardon his son. He then pardoned Hunter for any and all crimes committed over the last decade, including potential crimes that many believe implicate the president himself in a multimillion dollar influence peddling scheme.
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Notably, in seeking a comparative dig at Trump, the reporters did not seek to ask about this point of comparison with Biden.
We all knew that, no matter how one felt about Carter’s performance as president, there were some things that he would not do in office.
Perhaps that is why “Some look at Jimmy Carter and see a man of a bygone era with honesty and character.” They look at Biden himself and say, “We’d all do well to try to be more like Jimmy Carter.”
‘Alice’ star Linda Lavin dead at 87
Linda Lavin, an award-winning actress known for starring in the beloved sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87.
Lavin had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, and passed away on Sunday from complications of the disease, a representative told the Associated Press.
She had been active in the weeks leading up to her death, making an appearance earlier this month at the Los Angeles premiere of the Netflix series “No Good Deed,” in which she appears.
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Linda Lavin has died. The actress was 87. (CBS via Getty Images)
Lavin seemed to know from an early age that she was destined for life as an actress, moving to New York City after graduating from college. Her first big break came when she was cast in a musical on Broadway called “It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman.”
In 1969, she was nominated for her first Tony for her work in “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.”
Linda Lavin and husband, Steve Bakunas, at the “No Good Deed” Los Angeles Premiere at Tudum Theater on December 4, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
By the 70s, she made the move to Los Angeles, where she began getting jobs as a TV actress. She appeared in an episode of “Rhoda,” then landed a small recurring role in “Barney Miller.”
It was in 1976 that she was chosen to star in a new CBS sitcom based on Ellen Burstyn’s Oscar-winning waitress comedy-drama, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”
The title was shortened to “Alice,” and Lavin became a role model for working moms as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix. The show, with Lavin singing the theme song “There’s a New Girl in Town,” ran from 1976 to 1985.
“Alice” cast from left to right: Polly Holliday as “Flo” Florence Jean Castleberry; Vic Tayback as diner owner Mel Sharples; Philip McKeon as Alice’s son Tommy; Linda Lavin as Alice Hyatt; and Beth Howland as Vera Louise Gorman. (Getty Images)
The show turned “Kiss my grits” into a catchphrase and co-starred Polly Holliday as waitress Flo and Vic Tayback as the gruff owner and head chef of Mel’s Diner.
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The series bounced around the CBS schedule during its first two seasons but became a hit leading into “All in the Family” on Sunday nights in October 1977. It was among prime time’s top 10 series in four of the next five seasons. Variety magazine listed it among the all-time best workplace comedies.
“Alice” was based on the Oscar-winning film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” (CBS via Getty Images)
When “Alice” ended, Lavin continued working in Hollywood, though she did head back to Broadway for a bit. In 1987, she won a Tony Award for best actress after appearing in Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound.”
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She took several roles on stage in the years following her success on “Alice,” including a turn in the musical “Gypsy” in 1990. Her most recent role there was in 2016 in “Our Mother’s Brief Affair.”
Linda Lavin attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Amazon Studios’ “Being The Ricardos” at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on December 6, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Lavin continued working up until her death. In addition to her work in “No Good Deed,” she appeared in an episode of “Elsbeth” this year. Last year, she did voice work for an episode of “Bob’s Burgers.”
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She is survived by her husband, Steve Bakunas.
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Bills troll Jets with Pop-Tarts video after clinching No. 2 seed in AFC playoffs
The Buffalo Bills got the last word in after defeating the New York Jets on Sunday, 40-14.
Buffalo, which put together an epic social media presence over the course of the 2024 regular season, had one last video edit directed at New York once the game was finished.
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Buffalo Bills running back James Cook, center, celebrates his touchdown run with teammates during the second half of an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
The Bills’ video showed a Pop-Tart pastry holding up a Jets sign as it descended into a toaster in a nod to the Pop-Tarts Bowl. The video then showed the toaster spitting out a Pop-Tart with the words “Bills Win” emblazoned across it.
The video went over well with football fans, especially those who had watched Iowa State top Miami in the Pop-Tarts Bowl on Saturday night.
Buffalo put together another big win behind three touchdowns from Josh Allen. He had two passing touchdowns and a rushing score in the game. He threw for 182 yards and ran for 17 more.
Bills head coach Sean McDermott made it clear who he thought the NFL MVP is this season.
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Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) throws against the New York Jets during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
“I think Josh Allen continues to show why he should be the MVP,” McDermott said. “I’ve been around this league long enough to know to see MVP every year for many years. And what he has done on this team and this organization in this community — and no offense to anybody else — but I’ve got a hard time believing that someone’s done more.”
Allen also became the first player in NFL history to score 40 touchdowns in five consecutive seasons. Buffalo locked into the No. 2 seed in the playoffs, solidifying their ultimate revenge against the naysayers this season.
“It speaks to the staff that we’ve got here, the guys that we’ve got in this locker room, how this team is put together and the culture that we have,” Allen said. “We didn’t really pay attention to the preseason notions, but we heard them, and we saw them, and we knew what people were saying.
Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott talks to the media during a news conference following an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, both political underdogs, had a 50-year friendship : NPR
Feb. 20, 1978: President Jimmy Carter listens to Sen. Joe Biden as they wait to speak at a fundraiser in Wilmington, Del.
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On Presidents Day 1978, Jimmy Carter boarded Marine One at the White House and flew to Wilmington, Del.
He was there to raise money for one of his first national political allies: the state’s 35-year-old first-term senator, Joe Biden.
It was a joint appearance that underscored the unique relationship Biden developed with Carter early on in his political career — one that will be on display this week when Biden eulogizes Carter at Washington’s National Cathedral.
“I’ve been hanging out with Jimmy Carter for over 50 years, it dawned on me,” Biden said in remarks on Sunday from St. Croix, where he was on holiday.
“I’ll always be proud to say that — he used to kid me about it — that I was the first national figure to endorse him in 1976 when he ran for president. And there was an overwhelming reason for it: his character.”
Carter also fundraised for Biden. Back in 1978, Biden and his young sons met Carter’s helicopter at the airport, and then Carter gave Biden a lift in the presidential limousine to the Hotel Du Pont.
The politics-averse Carter didn’t do too many campaign events, let alone fundraising dinners. You could hear the excitement and pride in the young senator’s voice as he thanked the crowd, who paid $1,000 a couple for coming out to help him “raise so much damn money.”
“My sons, Beau and Hunt, were here, Mr. President,” Biden beamed during his introductory remarks. “Met the president at the plane. But priorities are priorities,” he told Carter and the donors. “They had their Cub Scout meeting tonight, Mr. President, and they said as far as they’d go was the helicopter. And when they found out Amy wasn’t coming, they weren’t even sure they were going to do that.”
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Carter and Biden were both political underdogs
When Carter spoke, he told the audience about the origins of the close relationship he had developed with Delaware’s junior senator.
They had first met four years earlier, in 1974, when Carter was in the final full year of his one term as Georgia’s governor. Biden had traveled to Atlanta to address a convention of young business leaders, the Jaycees. And Carter recalled that he couldn’t get over Biden’s youth.
“We got a chance to talk for several hours at the governor’s mansion,” said Carter. “I felt a little ill at ease. I thought that Joe should have been talking to my children instead of to me.”
Even so, Biden had come with advice. Carter said the two men talked about the possibilities and realities of running outsider campaigns. He said Biden encouraged him to run for president, and had shared stories from his own underdog run for the Senate two years earlier, when Biden, then a 29-year-old county councilman, had ousted a well-known incumbent.
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“I was so intrigued by Joe that I departed from my normal practice, which is to be polite, then withdraw. And I went to the Jaycee convention with him that night. And I listened to his speech,” Carter said, as Biden and the audience laughed.
Carter went on to make a long-shot bid for the White House, and Biden became the first senator — and first politician outside of Georgia — to endorse him. Carter told the crowd that night how Biden ended up traveling all over the country on Carter’s behalf.
“When I would go to Wisconsin and say, ‘What can I do in this city to explain my position?’ They would say, ‘Well you don’t have to explain your position. Joe Biden’s already done it for you.’ And when I would campaign in Pennsylvania in those tough days when Pennsylvania was the crucial primary, Joe Biden spent three times as many days and nights in Pennsylvania campaigning for me as I spent campaigning for myself,” Carter said.
Then-Sen. Joe Biden and former President Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on Aug. 26, 2008.
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Carter often called Biden from the White House
The former president Joe Biden is most associated with is, of course, Barack Obama, whom Biden served as vice president for eight years. But back in the 1970s, he was a frequent visitor to the Carter White House.
“I saw Carter as a necessary transitional figure in the Democratic Party, which was losing middle-class working Americans,” Biden recalled in his 2007 memoir, Promises To Keep. “I thought Carter could bridge the gaps in the party.”
Biden’s longtime adviser Ted Kaufman saw the Carter-Biden relationship develop first-hand. He said it was real and deep, and was strengthened by the fact that Jill Biden and Rosalynn Carter got along, too. “When you and your spouse both have a relationship with someone and their spouse, I have found over the years that’s like a booster jet for a friendship,” Kaufman said.
When Carter entered the White House, the young first-term Sen. Biden suddenly found himself as a key congressional point man for the president.
White House logs show Carter made frequent phone calls to Biden, including during the middle of the Camp David peace talks.
Biden was frequently in meetings at the Cabinet Room and Oval Office. In fact, Carter’s daily White House diary from June 14, 1977, shows the president going directly from a meeting with Biden to an Oval Office chat with Johnny and June Carter Cash. (Later that evening, Carter spoke to Elvis Presley on the phone.)
Biden soaked it all in. “This was when he was still in his thirties. At a time when normally you don’t get a chance to learn about these things at a high level,” said Kaufman, who was staffing Biden at the time.
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Biden was aware of Carter’s shortcomings as president
Carter ultimately struggled in the White House. And in viewing that struggle from a front-row seat, Biden learned valuable lessons of what not to do in a position of leadership.
In his 2007 memoir, Biden wrote about how Carter avoided personal relationships with other politicians, and how he held deep grudges.
“Carter even had a way of making me feel like he couldn’t trust me,” Biden wrote. “In the meetings, I could see him … tug at his cardigan sweater, and check the time.” Biden said Carter also failed to fully consult and communicate with fellow world leaders.
These are things that Biden would take the opposite approach on as president, decades later.
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Biden and Carter remained friends through the years, though, and stayed in close touch.
And on his 100th day in office — a symbolic point at which presidents often take stock of their progress — the Bidens flew to Plains, Ga., and spent some time with the Carters.
“Both of them, in times of trouble, reached out to each other. I think they had a deep personal relationship,” Kaufman said. “Carter would call him and he would call Carter at times in their lives when it would be a good thing to have a call.”
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10 essential books about Jimmy Carter : NPR
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up a copy of his book Faith: A Journey For All at a book signing event at Barnes & Noble bookstore on March 26, 2018.
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Throughout his lifetime, Jimmy Carter held many titles: 39th president of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner, philanthropist, humanitarian, artist – and writer.
In his role as an author, Carter wrote mostly non-fiction, on everything from war and peace to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to faith, personal reflections on his childhood and aging – and even fishing. But he also dabbled in fiction – with a children’s book, Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer, illustrated by his daughter, Amy, and a novel, The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War.
Carter published his first book, a campaign autobiography titled Why Not the Best? in 1975. Since then, he’s written more than 30 works. “Of all our modern Presidents, Jimmy Carter was America’s most protean author,” his publisher Jonathan Karp, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, said in a statement issued in late February 2023. “In all of his books, he maintained a voice of great integrity and intellectual honesty.”
Carter wrote books about his life and his beliefs. But writers and historians alike have been fascinated with examining and re-examining Carter as a president, his post-Oval office impact, and his legacy. Here, we look at 10 of the best-known titles by or about Jimmy Carter.
5 of Carter’s most widely read books
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An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood (2002)
Carter’s memoir details his childhood in a segregated rural Georgia during the Great Depression. He reflects on living in a sharecropping economy, as he paints a portrait of his community and family.
Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis (2006)
Published in 2005, Carter offers a defense of the separation of church and state, as well as his takes on contemporary issues such as women’s rights, abortion, terrorism, and the death penalty.
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (2007)
Written post-White House, Carter presents his views on the Israel-Palestine conflict – sharing his knowledge on the history of the Middle East and offering an assessment of solutions towards peace going forward.
A Full Life: Reflections at 90 (2015)
Even at 90 years of age, Carter didn’t stop writing. In A Full Life: Reflections at 90, Carter looks back at his long life – from growing up in rural Georgia to realizing causes he’s most passionate about – and shares the lessons he’s learned along the way.
Faith: A Journey For All (2018)
As a devout Baptist, religion has always been a key pillar in Carter’s life. But his book Faith: A Journey For All is about much more than that. In it, Carter explores faith’s broader meanings, the different ways that it sustains our lives, and how to find faith even in the darkest of times.
5 of the most-read biographies on Carter
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The Unfinished Presidency by Douglas Brinkley (1998)
Brinkley’s The Unfinished Presidency focuses on Carter’s resurrection after his defeat to Ronald Reagan in 1980. Brinkley provides observations of Carter’s complex relationships with international figures, as well as his lifelong commitment to world peace.
Jimmy Carter by Julian Zelizer (2010)
Princeton history professor Julian Zelizer examines Carter’s strategy as a maverick politician who was successful at communicating with and rallying voters disaffected by politics, but who faced challenges building a strong political coalition once in office. Post-presidency, Carter remade his image as a key voice for diplomacy and negotiation.
President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart Eizenstat (2018)
Authored by Carter’s chief domestic policy adviser, President Carter: The White House Years provides an in-depth look at the Carter administration. The account draws on more than 5,000 pages of notes from meetings, as well as 350 interviews of major players of the time.
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life by Jonathan Alter (2020)
In His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life, journalist Jonathan Alter traces the evolution of Carter’s life – from being raised on a farm to working as a naval nuclear engineer to his presidency and its aftermath – painting a portrait of a president who was flawed but committed to uplifting and serving the American people.
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird (2021)
Pulling from interviews with Jimmy Carter, his administration, and relevant documents, Bird’s The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter aims to redefine the legacy of the Carter administration, arguing that the 39th president has been largely misunderstood.
How to restore deleted text messages on Android
We’ve all been here before. All of us have, at one point or another, accidentally deleted an important text. Gloria, from Chepachet, Rhode Island, reached out to us with this question:
“I accidentally deleted a text message; how can I get it back on my Android phone?”
We’re sorry to hear that you’ve accidentally deleted a text message. The ability to recover it depends on several factors, including your phone model, whether a backup was made and the specific messaging app you’re using. Here are some general methods you can try. (iPhone users, follow these tips.)
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Check if the message was archived (Google Messages)
If you have an Android-based phone or a Google account, you may use Google Messages as your primary platform for text messages. Here’s how to check if your message was archived within Google Messages.
Settings may vary depending on your Android phone’s manufacturer.
- Open the Google Messages app
- Tap your profile icon beside the search icon
- Select Archived
- Long press the messages you want to retrieve
- Tap the unarchive button in the upper-right corner
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Check the Recycle Bin (Samsung Messages)
Settings may vary depending on your Android phone’s manufacturer.
If you are using a Samsung-based smartphone, your text messages can be stored in the Samsung OS’s Recycle Bin for up to 30 days. If you are using a Samsung smartphone, here’s how to check the built-in recycling bin app to see if your messages are in there:
- Open the Messages app
- Tap the three-dot menu in the upper-right corner
- Choose the Recycle bin
- Choose the deleted text messages you want to retrieve
- Tap Restore to get them back to your messages list
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Use a third-party recovery app
If you don’t have a backup and your messages are permanently deleted, you might still have a chance to recover them using a third-party Android data recovery app. You can find Kurt’s picks for data recovery software here. Different apps will have different features, so be sure to pay close attention to which third-party recovery solution is the right one for your needs.
Restore from a backup
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If you’ve backed up your phone to Google Drive, you may be able to restore your backup to recover the deleted text messages. Please note that restoring a backup might overwrite the existing data on your phone. Here’s how to check and see if you have a Google Drive backup for your smartphone:
Settings may vary depending on your Android phone’s manufacturer.
- Open Google Drive on your smartphone or visit drive.google.com.
- On Google Drive, select the storage option from the bottom left corner.
- Tap on backups to view any Android backups attached to your Google Drive.
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Kurt’s key takeaways
Gloria, hopefully, we were able to help you restore the missing Android message. Regularly backing up your data to prevent future data loss is always a good idea. If you have an Android smartphone, I strongly recommend using Google Drive to back up your phone; that way, you can always access the backup within your Google account. If you can’t find your deleted messages in your phone’s trash bin or recycling bin, don’t panic. You can still most likely get any deleted data back with a third-party program, but check any program’s features before paying.
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Four years after the Capitol riot, why QAnon hasn’t gone away : NPR
A QAnon sign at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Many of the rioters who attacked the Capitol later told investigators they were motivated in part by the online conspiracy theory.
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After a mob of pro-Trump protesters breached the U.S. Capitol through a broken window on Jan. 6, 2021, a lone Capitol Police officer, Eugene Goodman, diverted the group away from the Senate chamber. The pack of protesters then chased Goodman up a staircase.
The man leading the mob was wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with an eagle inside of a large red, white, and blue “Q.”
Douglas Jensen later told the FBI he read content about the QAnon conspiracy theory online daily. He said he had worn the shirt and put himself at the front because he “wanted Q to get the attention.”
Douglas Jensen and other rioters speaking to U.S. Capitol Police in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Jensen later told the FBI he had worn the QAnon shirt and put himself at the front of the crowd because he “wanted Q to get the attention.”
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Most of the rioters who stormed the Capitol that day were inspired by then-President Donald Trump’s calls to be there. But many, like Jensen, also cited the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory. Over the past four years, the online extremist community has continued to be subtly courted by Trump and some of his most powerful allies.
The theory, which emerged in 2017, claims that Trump is involved in a secret battle against evil members of the alleged deep state, or in other tellings, a powerful cabal of government and Hollywood elites engaged in satanic child abuse. Some QAnon claims and themes echo longstanding antisemitic tropes. An anonymous source called Q, who supposedly had access to high level intelligence, posted cryptic clues, known as Q drops, on online message boards.
“The QAnon community believes that by decoding these drops, one can understand not just the moves and countermoves in the secret battle, but also essentially predict the future,” said Logan Strain, who began reporting on QAnon six years ago after he noticed the movement was not just “staying in the dark corners of the internet.” He co-hosts the QAA podcast under the pseudonym Travis View.
On Jan. 6, many QAnon followers at the Capitol believed they were participating in what is called “The Storm” in QAnon lore. It is supposed to be an apocalyptic-type reckoning when the evil forces are finally punished.
Instead, more than a thousand people have so far been criminally sentenced for participating in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. More than 1,560 people have been charged with federal crimes.
A changing landscape online
In the aftermath of Jan. 6, a number of social media platforms doubled down on their efforts to ban QAnon content.
By that point, there was a rich online ecosystem of QAnon influencers who had figured out how to monetize spreading QAnon-related content and analysis. In response to the crackdown, influencers moved to less moderated platforms, like Telegram and Rumble.
“The movement didn’t go away by any means. It was just essentially moved and splintered into various networks,” said Katherine Keneally, the director of threat analysis and prevention for the nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which studies extremism.
Some QAnon influencers were even recruited to join Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, by Kash Patel, who’s now Trump’s pick to lead the FBI. Patel previously served as a board member and adviser for the social media platform.
A woman holds a sign referencing the QAnon conspiracy on Nov. 7, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn. QAnon emerged online in 2017 and claims that Trump is involved in a secret battle against evil members of the alleged deep state, or in other tellings, a powerful cabal of government and Hollywood elites engaged in satanic child abuse.
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“We also need everybody on Truth Social because it is the only place where we can actually have a conversation without getting shut down by the clown show that is the censorship operation at Titter [sic] and Fakebook,” Patel said in 2022, using disparaging names for Twitter and Facebook during an appearance on the MG Show, which has promoted QAnon.
That same year, billionaire Elon Musk, who’s now one of Trump’s closest allies, bought Twitter and renamed it X. He allowed banned QAnon accounts to return.
Both Trump and Musk have repeatedly shared QAnon-related content on their respective social media platforms, which seems to be a way to wink at the movement.
“It’s incredibly dangerous when we do see high profile figures amplify this language and symbols because it provides adherents this perceived legitimacy to their beliefs and their movement,” said Keneally, who pointed out that QAnon has been associated with violence, including the Capitol riot.
Trump’s brand of politics expanded the Republican coalition to include constituents who believe in conspiracy theories and hadn’t previously been reliable voters, said Joseph Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami. That gave Republican politicians a strong reason to court these newly energized voters. “And that involves saying things that are prominent in QAnon, but saying all sorts of other conspiracy theories, too,” Uscinski said.
Celebrating Trump’s return
QAnon adherents are now celebrating the incoming Trump administration and his cabinet picks.
A 2018 Q drop previously mentioned Patel as “a name to remember.” That history, along with Patel’s rhetoric about the deep state and previous overtures to QAnon — which include signing copies of one of his children’s books with a slogan associated with QAnon (he said he learned the slogan in a movie) and promoting an account called “Q” on Truth Social — have made Trump’s pick to lead the FBI popular among QAnon followers.
When asked about Patel’s past comments about QAnon and appearances on related podcasts, Trump transition team spokesperson Alex Pfeiffer told NPR, “This is a pathetic attempt at guilt by association.”
Strain, the QAA podcast host, said the fantasy among some of Trump’s most ardent supporters for retribution for Trump’s perceived enemies, “very much echoes a lot of QAnon fantasies about a storm of mass arrests.”
Red Pill News, an online show and podcast which shares QAnon content, included in a recent episode a fake alert meant to sound like an official notification from the Emergency Alert System.
“Donald Trump is now your president,” a monotone voice reads after a series of tones. “All deep state traitors are to report immediately to Guantanamo Bay detention camp for court martial via televised military tribunal.”
It’s hard to know how widespread belief in QAnon is today or ever was.
A man wearing a QAnon t-shirt walks through the crowd at a Trump rally on Sept. 25, 2021 in Perry, Ga. The nonprofit PRRI, which conducts polls on religion, found that 19% of Americans believe in the core theories associated with QAnon, up from 14% in 2021. The poll found the number rose to 32% among Republicans who support Trump.
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One challenge is that QAnon is hard to define. Various conspiracy theories that had been floating around the fringes of American culture for decades became incorporated into the movement. “Everything has sort of been sucked into QAnon at one point or another,” said Adam Enders, an associate professor of political science at the University of Louisville who studies belief in conspiracy theories.
As a result, the movement was like a “choose your own adventure book,” said Uscinski.
The nonprofit PRRI, which conducts polls on religion, found that 19% of Americans believe in the core theories associated with QAnon, up from 14% in 2021. The poll found the number rose to 32% among Republicans who support Trump.
Mike Rothschild, the author of “The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult and Conspiracy of Everything,” said the QAnon movement showed there was a market for “instantaneous conspiracy content creators” who churn out fresh conspiratorial content on social media pegged to the news of the day.
Influencers learned they could “make money by getting shares and replies and responses and retweets to this outlandish stuff that they put out,” Rothschild said.
There haven’t been new Q drops in years and there appears to be less interest in online content analyzing those drops in the way there once was, said Rothschild.
But ideas QAnon helped popularize, like the idea of a battle against an evil deep state, and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, have become common ideas on the right.
“QAnon as a movement based around secret codes and clues and riddles doesn’t so much exist anymore,” Rothschild said. “But it doesn’t need to exist anymore because its tenets have become such a major part of mainstream conservatism and such a big part of the base of people that reelected Donald Trump.”
GOV SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: America’s farmers need Brooke Rollins
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There’s no easy way to put it: America’s farmers are in trouble.
Our farmers lost more than $30 billion this year. A new Farm Bill to help them is stalled in Congress thanks to Democratic stonewalling. Four years of rising input costs and Biden-led regulatory overreach have put many family farms on the verge of extinction.
The good news is that America is going to have a friend to farmers back in the White House soon. President-elect Trump scored win after win for our farm families during his first term and I know that’s one of his top goals for his second. But as the old saying goes, personnel is policy.
Brooke Rollins, the president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, speaks during an event on Jan. 28, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
That’s why we need Brooke Rollins, President Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of agriculture, to be confirmed as soon as possible.
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I worked with Brooke in the White House, where she and I were part of a group of women empowered by President Trump to fight for his America First vision. As director of the Domestic Policy Council and the Office of American Innovation, Brooke mastered policies across issue areas and helped the president unleash the greatest economy in American history.
She worked especially hard to roll back onerous red tape like the Waters of the United States policy, which President Obama wanted to use to regulate every stream, creek and puddle in America.
Farming isn’t just intellectual to Brooke. She grew up in a small, agricultural community in Texas and comes from generations of hardworking American farmers. She studied agriculture at Texas A&M and spent the early part of her career fighting to protect farmers’ interests. She was part of 4-H and FFA and raises steer with her four kids.
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Not long ago, I joined Sen. John Boozman, Arkansas’ senior senator and the incoming chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, for a tour of farms in the Arkansas Delta. At the end of a long day meeting with farmers, we sat down for a roundtable in McGehee, Arkansas. I’d known for a while that our farm families were struggling but this event made it crystal clear.
One by one, the farmers at the table told me how their neighbors and relatives were dropping out of the agriculture industry and having to scramble to find jobs elsewhere. They talked about how the price of everything from fuel to seeds was going up, but that the price that their row crops fetched in the market wasn’t keeping up. They described it as a generational crisis.
President Trump speaks while Brooke Rollins, of the Texas Public Policy Institute, listens, during an event at the White House, on Jan. 11, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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I’ve always believed that farming is more than just a business. Especially in places like smalltown Arkansas, it’s a way of life. It’s our state’s culture, our history and what knits communities like McGehee together. If our farmers disappear, something critical to the spirit of Arkansas – and America – would disappear along with them.
Brooke understands that fact – and she’s prepared to do something about it. I know that the first item on her to-do list is to work with new Republican majorities in the House and Senate to pass an updated Farm Bill – legislation that hasn’t been thoroughly revised for ten years. I know she will work to undo the regulatory red tape that hamstrings our farmers and turns a difficult job into an impossible one.
I know she is committed to improving broadband and connectivity in our small communities, helping rural Arkansas connect with the world. And I know she will fight to realize President Trump’s vision of a dominant America – in food, in energy and in everything else.
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My dad used to say that if a country can’t feed itself, fuel itself or fight for itself then it can’t survive. It’s not dramatic to say that we’re getting very near to that point – and we need a dramatic change in leadership to right the ship.
Brooke Rollins is that leader. Confirm Brooke as secretary of agriculture. Stand up for America’s farmers. Preserve our agriculture industry – and our nation’s way of life.