During an October 15, 2020 town hall, Trump refused to denounce the QAnon conspiracy theory when asked by host Savannah Guthrie. QAnon holds that Trump was waging a secret war against a secret cabal of Satantic Democrats that engaged in a mass pedophile ring.

GUTHRIE: All right, while we’re denouncing, let me ask you about QAnon. It is this theory that Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are the savior, of that. Now can you just, once and for all, state that that is completely not true, and disavow QAnon in its entirety?

 

TRUMP: I know nothing about QAnon.

 

GUTHRIE: I just told you.

 

TRUMP: I know very little. You told me, but what you tell me, doesn’t necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that. I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard. But I know nothing about it. If you’d like me to-

 

GUTHRIE: They believe that it is a Satanic cult run by the deep state.

 

TRUMP: …study the subject. I’ll tell you what I do know about. I know about Antifa, and I know about the radical left, and I know how violent they are and how vicious they are. And I know how they are burning down cities run by Democrats, not run by Republicans.

Two weeks prior, Trump avoided unequivocally denouncing white supremacists during the Presidential debate. Trump also congratulated a QAnon supporter who won a Georgia House seat primary, despite her being denounced by other Republicans, and has repeatedly lent the conspiracy theory credibility.

The Washington Post – Rather than condemn the QAnon conspiracy theory, Trump elevates its dangerous central assertion
CBS News – Trump refuses to denounce right-wing conspiracy group QAnon, says all he knows is “they are very strongly against pedophilia”
The Guardian – Trump refuses to disavow QAnon conspiracy theory during town hall