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QAnon followers believe a second set of Nuremberg-like trials will be held to prosecute those who introduced coronavirus restrictions, on the grounds of "crimes against humanity."

Acolytes of the QAnon conspiracy theory latched onto posts about a supposed Nuremberg 2.0 trial that would prosecute officials who introduced coronavirus restrictions, claiming a class-action lawsuit could be brought against them.

Posts promoting a Zoom meeting to discuss the apparent secret trial were promoted on an influential QAnon Telegram channel with 85,000 followers that shared details about how it could be viewed on July 4.

The post said those who watched the Zoom meeting would find opening statements and evidence that would be presented at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against "Hitler's 4th Reich members for coronavirus measures."

In 1946, the Nuremberg trials in post-war Germany led to the execution of many people connected to, or directly part of, the Nazi administration of Adolf Hitler who led a genocidal campaign that killed an estimated six million Jews and millions of other interned Europeans.

The channel then encouraged followers to "share everywhere."

However, several commenters who underneath the post expressed confusion and disappointment that 100 people were allowed in on the Zoom meeting, which is the limit unless a larger expansion is added on.

It was unclear if any followers managed to access the Zoom meeting.

Another post, uploaded on July 3 alongside a photo of a billboard advert that encouraged drivers to search for "Nuremberg Code", said: "Justice is coming - Nuremberg 2.0 soon - treason - crimes against humanity - military law - death penalty - no mercy."

The post was viewed more than 11,200 times and commenters stated their children needed to be saved from the coronavirus vaccine and pushed the false belief the jabs were killing people en masse.

Both posts linked to the same Nuremberg 2.0 website that claimed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is a hoax and included comments from lawyer Reiner Fuellmich.

In a video titled "Nuremberg Trials, 2.0" shows Fuellmich standing in front of books and calling the ongoing pandemic a "coronavirus scandal."

He later added: "Those responsible for it must be criminally prosecuted and sued for civil damages." Fuellmich further claimed the apparent scandal had "unfolded into probably the greatest crime against humanity ever committed."

The attorney, who said he has practiced law in California, has previous form with comments that the pandemic was somehow planned by a cabal of global elites. He added that PCR tests were not reliable.

In a viral June 10, Facebook post, he was interviewed by one-time advisor to former President Donald Trump.

During the interview, Fuellmich said: "Concrete plans for this pandemic were made by very rich and powerful people some 10 years ago, among them the Rockefeller Foundation."

But, the AFP Fact Check branded the claims as false.

It said earlier this year: "This is false. While the Rockefeller Foundation and other experts did study pandemic scenarios, they in no way fabricated a deadly outbreak, and health authorities say PCR tests are reliable."

Newsweek has contacted Fuellmich for comment.

QAnon first emerged as a conspiracy theory in 2017 on the messageboard website 4Chan. In several posts by a person who claimed to have "Q" level security clearance within the U.S. government, Hillary Clinton would be arrested..

The arrest never came and numerous predictions made by "Q" did not happen.

It did, however, lead to a now-global set of Q followers, many of whom are also skeptical of vaccine efficacy, who worked to decode posts that they believed showed evidence for an international cabal of cannibalistic pedophiles.

Followers also believe that Trump would somehow expose this global cabal whose members would be put on trial.

However, after his election defeat in 2020, Q messages (known as Q-drops) slowed down dramatically.

The lack of new posts has not stopped the fervour of most QAnon followers, who still believe that Trump won the last election, with many convinced he will be reinstated as president.

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QAnon Followers Think Secret Trials Will Be Held for COVID Rule Enforcers'Nuremberg 2.0' - Newsweek

The pitch was the same. You need me. You cant trust your people. I can fix this.

Executives at General Electric Co. , International Business Machines Corp. , and other global giants had all heard it.

And it was coming from the same businessman: Declan Kelly. A jet-setting public relations professional who in a few years had compiled an international roster of blue-chip clients, Mr. Kelly built on his ties to powerful people like Bill and Hillary Clinton and friendships with business leaders. The leader of Teneo Holdings LLC had become a go-to adviser for CEOs by promising them personalized advice for any crisis.

The most important question for business today is, do people really trust you? Mr. Kelly wrote in an annual note to clients in 2018. At its core, Teneos job is to help CEOs follow their true North when the storm obscures the sky.

That is why Teneo is often hired directly by CEOs, sometimes circumventing boards or other executives, according to executives who were pitched or worked with Teneo as well as current and former Teneo employees.

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There are likely to be a lot of names on the primary ballot for Alaskas lone congressional seat next year. Congressman Don Youngs name will probably be one of them, as he announced earlier this year to run for reelection.

Many will claim they are Republican. Many, like Gregg Brelsford.

Brelsford says he is a new kind of Republican running for Congress against Congressman Young.

At 72, Brelsford says a lot of things about the Republican Party, but according to recent voter records, he is an undeclared voter and has been a Democrat in the past, when he lived in Utah, for instance. MRAK can find no trace of him being registered as a Republican until July 5, when he used the Republican pedigree in his filing with the Federal Elections Commission.

I refuse to be a Republican who stays silent as many in our party chip away at our state and national ideals for petty, self-interested, short-term, goals. I am a principled, new generation, conservative, he said on his Facebook announcement.

Brelsford, who is registered to vote in Anchorage but was recently an interim manager of the Bristol Bay Borough, isnt the only challenger.

Randy Purham registered with the FEC several weeks ago to run for Alaskas congressional seat, but he lists his mailing address and voting address as Killeen, Texas. That will take some explaining to voters.

Brelsford, if he continues his campaign, will have an uphill battle with traditional Republicans and conservatives in general. Hell have to talk about his long history of donations to Democratic candidates for Congress, his maximum donation to Hillary Clintons campaign for president in 2007, and the $5,000 he gave to a political action committee for Hillary Clinton in 2008. All of those donations, and more up until 2017, were from him while he was living and working as an attorney in Utah.

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Michael Avenatti

Michael Avenattis latest bid for a new trial puts a new spin on the fallen lawyers former slogan Fight Club.

Slated to be sentenced on Friday for extorting Nike, Avenatti now claims that he deserves a new trial because prosecutors did not disclose the fact that one of the key witnesses against him at his original trial feared for her life. Thats because according to Avenatti she read a decades-old conspiracy theory about Bill and Hillary Clinton. The witness, Judy Regnier, was a former office manager at Avenattis law firm, and prosecutors called her to establish a financial motive to shake down the sportswear giant.

Just two weeks before Avenattis trial, Regnier told an FBI agent that she felt threatened by a tweet speculating that the celebrity lawyer might harm her, according to a defense filing made public late on Monday night.

Ms. Regnier felt threatened after reading, She better be careful, she might end like a Clinton witness, desperate man desperate measures,' Avenattis lawyer Benjamin Silverman wrote in a footnote of a three-page letter which recapped the witnesss alleged fears. The term Clinton witness references a decades-old conspiracy theory, also known as the Clinton Body Count, promoted by President Trump and others, that President Clinton and Secretary Clinton arranged to kill individuals with damaging or incriminating information against them.

Avenatti claims federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York never disclosed Regniers statement to him before his trial, which he now argues he would have used to have undermine her credibility.

It establishes a clear bias and also evidences a motive to have Mr. Avenatti convicted and incarcerated, the defense letter states. It also raises significant credibility issues. Evidence that impeaches a government witness . . . is generally called Brady material.'

The watershed Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland established in 1963 that prosecutors must disclose information that might be helpful to a criminal defense. Avenatti claims federal prosecutors in New York failed to do so and that California prosecutors provided Regniers statements to him for the first time in advance of a separate trial there accusing him of defrauding former clients of millions of dollars.

The government also concedes that it deliberately withheld, and continues to withhold, handwritten notes from meetings with Regnier during at least one of which she was asked about Nike and during at least two of which she was asked about Mr. Avenattis financial condition, the defense letter states. Ms. Regnier was one of only a handful of witnesses to testify for the government at trial and the government elicited testimony from her about both issues.

On Feb. 6, 2020, Regnier testified that Avenatti saw the plan to pressure Nike to pay millions to cover up their correction scandal as a light at the end of tunnel for his financial woes. Prosecutors claimed that he was $15 million in debt at the time and that he demanded at least that much money from Nike.

If Judge Gardephe denies his motion for a new trial in the Nike case, Avenatti wants him to order a hearing as to why certain witness statements were not produced.

In a recent sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe to deal Avenatti a very substantial sentence. Though the government did not define that phrase, the probation office proposed an eight-year sentence, which dips below the 11.25-to-14-year guideline range. Prosecutors signaled their agreement with the probation office.

Seeking a maximum six-month sentence, Avenattis lawyers claim that their clients spectacular fall from star of the cable news networks to thrice-prosecuted federal criminal defendant is punishment enough.

Avenattis epic fall and public shaming has played out in front of the entire world, defense attorneys Scott A. Srebnick and E. Danya Perry argued in a sentencing memorandum in early June.

Whatever the outcome of his sentencing on Friday, Avenatti will continue to face criminal exposure in two separate jurisdictions. In addition to his pending case in California, Avenatti also faces a third prosecution in the Southern District of New York. Hes accused there of defrauding his most famous client: adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

Read Avenattis latest defense filing below:

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Ask Val Arkoosh about the possibility that she could become the first Pennsylvania woman elected to the U.S. Senate, and shell probably counter with a different historical factoid.

I would also be the first woman physician ever, from either party, she said Thursday, cradling a cup of chai tea as rain poured down outside a Bucks County caf.

Arkoosh had just toured a therapeutic horse-riding center in Pipersville, where military veterans struggling with PTSD ride horses and synchronize their breathing with the animals for calm.

Its a known medical fact that when youre focused on breathing you cant focus on anything else, Janet Brennan, the founder of Shamrock Reins and a former nurse, told Arkoosh.

Thats absolutely right, said Arkoosh, who spent years as an anesthesiologist.

The early campaign stop at a female-owned nonprofit, supported by an all-female therapy staff took place as the Democratic field in one of the countrys most competitive Senate races is coming into focus. Arkoosh, chair of the Montgomery County Commissioners, is the lone woman with an established political profile running in the Democratic primary.

Thats not something shes shying away from but its not something shes particularly highlighting, either. Theres a long, seemingly no-win history of women grappling with how much to emphasize their gender in a political system where they are the minority and a political culture where they face different expectations than men. Hillary Clinton was criticized for not focusing enough on the historic nature of her presidential candidacy in 2008. She did that more in 2016 but still lost.

Although Arkoosh says its about time the commonwealth elected a woman, shes quick to add that the race is about a lot more than that: the economy, climate, health care, and more.

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman of Braddock and State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta of Philadelphia are also seeking the Democratic nomination, and U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb of Allegheny County is widely expected to join them. Incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Toomey isnt seeking reelection.

READ MORE: Democrats are waiting for Conor Lamb as Pennsylvanias 2022 Senate race takes shape

Being one of the only women in male-dominated spaces isnt new for Arkoosh, who is 60. It was like that in medical school, when she was the chair of Drexels anesthesiology department, and now, as the first woman to lead Montgomery County since it was founded in 1784.

I think of it some days as my preexisting condition, Arkoosh said with a smile. Its just been something Ive been dealing with for as long as I can remember. Its not annoyance or anything, its just like, Yes, Im a woman, but theres all these other things, too.

Pennsylvania ranks in the bottom half of states for gender representation in politics. The state has never elected a female U.S. senator or governor. There are four women, all Democrats, in a congressional delegation of 18 up from zero women just three years ago. The state legislature is about 26% female.

So far, no woman from either party is running for governor next year. Kathy Barnette, a Montgomery County Republican who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year, is seeking the GOP Senate nomination.

Arkoosh got a major boost in June from Emilys List, a group that backs Democratic women and plays an influential role in Democratic politics. It endorsed her after U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean and Chrissy Houlahan said they wouldnt run, leaving Arkoosh as the only prominent woman.

Her supporters see a critical moment to break the glass ceiling.

If we dont do it now, itll be at least another decade, said Christine Jacobs, Arkooshs campaign treasurer and the executive director of Represent PA, which works to elect Democratic women. Because whoevers elected governor, chances are they get reelected, and Senates up every six years.

Arkoosh says she transitioned from a career in medicine to politics because her patients needed more help than she could provide in an exam room. She saw kids with asthma aggravated by air pollution, pregnant moms who had to take two buses for a grocery trip, and countless insurance claims denied.

I couldnt fix those things as a doctor, she said.

READ MORE: The 2020 election established Montgomery County as a powerful Democratic stronghold

Arkoosh got a masters degree in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, which she completed while practicing medicine part time and caring for three young children. That led to a job with the National Physicians Alliance, where she advocated for passage of the Affordable Care Act.

She lost her first congressional campaign in 2014 before being appointed to the Montgomery County Commissioners that year. She won reelection to a full term, and has been chair since 2016.

Montgomery is the third most populous and second-wealthiest county in Pennsylvania. Its also increasingly emerged as a Democratic powerhouse in recent years, which could be an advantage for Arkoosh though what kind of following the county-level job gives her remains to be seen.

Being the only woman whos a major Democratic candidate could also help.

Its no guarantee that youll win, but it gives you a base of support with a slice of the electorate, said Mike Mikus, a Democratic strategist who ran the early part of Katie McGintys 2016 Senate campaign. McGinty won the primary but lost to Toomey in the general election.

In the end, these primaries are not going to be determined by gender or race, Mikus said. Its going to be the message, who raises the money, who runs a well-organized campaign.

Arkoosh has already faced questions about McGintys loss and what it might portend for her prospects. She largely waves those off.

As I talk to voters, this is not whats on their mind, she said

Mikus put it more bluntly. Its so misogynistic to assume that because one woman ran five years ago that a woman running today is the exact same person. They have vastly different backgrounds.

Allyson Schwartz, who represented Montgomery County for 10 years in Congress and lost in the 2014 primary for governor, also rejected any comparison.

Men have run and lost over and over and over again and very few men get asked ... Can a man still win? Schwartz said. We have elected women to attorney general, treasurer. Women can absolutely win statewide.

Arkoosh is also quick to note that history could be made in several ways in the race. Kenyatta would be the states first Black senator and its first openly gay one. He has highlighted the slate of all white men who have held the seat.

Research shows that women are far more likely to vote based on a candidates party than gender. But several supporters said the combination of her qualifications and the lack of women among top state officials could help Arkoosh. She has early support from several women whom she helped get into politics.

It was all new to me, said Nicole Phillips, whos running for judge in Montgomery County. Youre being vetted, and you realize youre being asked what are my qualifications, sometimes overtly in ways the men are not. She was helpful to me making sure my message was clear.

Delaware County Councilwoman Christine Reuther, one of three women who led Democrats to control of the governing body in 2019, credited Arkoosh for helping her as a candidate. She said Arkoosh become a leader in the wider Philadelphia region during the pandemic.

I didnt necessarily agree with every decision she made, but you can see shes doing the work, taking the hits, and owning her decisions, Reuther said. Thats what I want in an elected official.

READ MORE: No endorsement is too small for Malcolm Kenyatta

At the coffee shop, Arkoosh called governing during COVID-19 the hardest thing shes ever done. She proudly shared, as perhaps only a woman would feel the need to, that she had only one emotional breaking point last year.

She was in a Zoom meeting after shed learned her twins high school graduation would be virtual, she recalled. Someone asked her about the status of local graduations. Thats when the gravity of what the pandemic had stolen from her own kids no prom, no senior skip day hit her, as she tried to answer through tears.

A flurry of supportive messages followed, with people thanking her for showing emotion, and sharing their own struggles. Arkoosh said the moment demonstrates the importance of having different perspectives in the Senate.

We will get better legislation and better impact for our communities if the laws that are passed reflect everyone, she said. And we do have very few women there, so we do need to do better.

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Val Arkoosh would be the first Pa. woman elected to the Senate. But shes running as Dr. Arkoosh. - The Philadelphia Inquirer