How a urine-drinking QAnon anti-vaxxer missed his chance to 'confront Trump': report
Although former President Donald Trump still enjoys considerable support in the Republican Party and the MAGA movement, some far-right anti-vaxxers turned against him when he came out in favor of COVID-19 vaccines. Trump maintained his opposition to vaccine mandates, but he stressed that Americans who were vaccinated had a much better chance of surviving a COVID-19 infection than those who were not.
During a December 2021 interview, Trump told the Daily Wire's Candace Owens, "Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get (COVID-19), it's a very minor form. People aren't dying when they take the vaccine…. The vaccine works. The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don't take their vaccine. But it's still their choice, and if you take the vaccine, you are protected."
One of the anti-vaxxers who views Trump's support of COVID-19 vaccines as a betrayal is Alabama-based QAnon conspiracy theorist Christopher Key. According to Daily Beast reporter Zachary Petrizzo, Key is so angry with Trump that he entered a contest in the hope that he would win and have a chance to tell the former president off in person.
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"While Key has plenty of foes — Donald Trump, Democratic state governors that he seeks to place under citizen's arrest, even Whole Foods grocery stores everywhere — it's become something of his life's mission to confront the former president," Petrizzo explains in a Daily Beast article published on April 10. "So, when tickets went on sale for $500 for an evening with Donald Trump, Jr. and former congressional candidate Joe Kent in Palm Beach, Key leapt at the chance."
Petrizzo adds, "It was Key's understanding that the former president might drop by the event, as he's been known to do, and Key would finally have a chance to confront Trump. And either way, he'd get a chance to challenge Don Jr…. But apparently, after Trumpworld found out about Key and his history, they canceled the dinner, and Key was once again denied his opportunity…. Key was apparently too wild for Mar-a-Lago."
An example of Key's "wild" views on COVID-19, according to Petrizzo, is his claim that people can avoid the disease by drinking their own urine — something that Key does on a regular basis. In 2021, the Washington Post reported that Key told pharmacists at Walmart that they "could be executed" for giving customers COVID-19 vaccines.
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Key is certain that the Trumps canceled the dinner because of him. The QAnon supporter told the Daily Beast, "I believe that they went and did the research, and they found out who I was. And the last thing they wanted me to do was to sit down with Donald Trump, Jr. and his father."
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