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Caesars Entertainment cancels a QAnon conference featuring Michael Flynn at its Las Vegas venue

Sep 1, 2021, 23:03 IST
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Trump supporter and QAnon follower Jake "The Q Shaman" Angeli attends a "Stop the Steal" rally . Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty Images
  • Caesar's Entertainment canceled a QAnon conference scheduled to be held at their Las Vegas property.
  • The event, called the Patriot Double Down, was organized by the QAnon group, the Patriot Voice.
  • Michael Flynn, Trump's ex-national security adviser, and a slew of other far-right activists were set to speak.
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Caesars Entertainment canceled a QAnon conference scheduled to be held in October at their conference space in Las Vegas, 8 News Now first reported on Tuesday.

The event, called the For God & Country Patriot Double Down, was set to take place October 22-25 with tickets selling for between $650 and $3,000.

"We can confirm that the Patriot Double Down will no longer be held at Caesars Entertainment properties," a Caesars spokeswoman, Kate Whiteley, told Insider. She declined to say why the event was canceled.

The group behind the event, the Patriot Voice, held a similar conference, called the Patriot Roundup in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend. Both events were organized by John Sabal, a Trump loyalist who goes by QAnon John, and center around a vast web of lies and baseless conspiracy theories.

Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, and Jim Watkins, who ran pornography sites before creating the online forum 8kun, where the anonymous "Q" user posts about the conspiracy theory, were expected to speak at the October event alongside a slew of other far-right activists.

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Jim Marchant, a Republican running for Nevada secretary of state who's promoted false claims of voter fraud, was originally scheduled to speak at the conference, but recently pulled out, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

A note on the event's website insisted that the conference will take place, but the site said its online ticketing system was "temporarily offline."

"They tried to shut us down but we have no plans to back down or shy away from this movement," the note read.

Ceasars Entertainment, Patriot Voice, and Sabal didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

The QAnon conspiracy theory is premised on the baseless claim that former President Donald Trump will expose Satan-worshipping, pedophilic Democrats in the "deep state," return to power, and declare martial law. Patriot Voice also traffics in anti-vaccine and anti-mask conspiracy theories, referring to COVID-19 as the "plandemic," a term for the false claim that the pandemic was engineered by public health officials.

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