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RNC Speaker Boosts QAnon Conspiracy Theory About Jewish Plot to Enslave the World

Hours before she was set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, Mary Ann Mendoza took to Twitter and urged her followers to investigate a supposed Jewish plot to enslave the world.

“Do yourself a favor and read this thread,” Mendoza, who is a member of the Trump campaign’s advisory board, tweeted to her more than 40,000 followers early Tuesday morning...

Her tweet on Tuesday linked to a lengthy thread from a QAnon conspiracy theorist that laid out a fevered, anti-Semitic view of the world. In its telling, the Rothschilds—a famous Jewish banking family from Germany—created a plot to terrorize non-Jewish “goyim,” with purported details of their scheme that included plans to “make the goyim destroy each other” and “rob the goyim of their landed properties.”

Drawing on more than a century’s worth of anti-Semitic hoaxes and smears, the thread claimed that malevolent Jewish forces in the banking industry are out to enslave non-Jews and promote world wars. Riddled with QAnon references, the thread from Twitter user @warnuse claimed that the Titanic had been sunk to protect the Federal Reserve, and that every president between John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump was a “slave president” in the thrall of a global cabal.

The thread also promoted “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” an anti-Semitic hoax popular in Nazi Germany, and claimed that its allegations about a Jewish plot to control the world are real...

Early viewership numbers for the first evening of the Republican National Convention were released Tuesday ― and even though President Donald Trump always wants the biggest and best ratings, the RNC’s kickoff trailed behind the opening night of last week’s Democratic convention.

According to early Nielsen Media Research figures, viewership for the first night of the RNC averaged at about 15.84 million, trailing the DNC’s opening night of 18.69 million viewers.

The numbers reflected viewership across ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC from 10 to 11 p.m. EST, and did not include online livestreams. Fox News drew 7.06 million viewers alone. CNN came in second with 2.01 million viewers, and ABC was third with 1.98 million.

The viewership of both conventions was down compared to 2016’s numbers, likely because of the scaled-down, livestreamed nature of the events amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Republicans suffered about a 29% drop in viewership, while the Democrats saw viewership decline by 27%.