“The person that shot Ashli Babbitt ... there was no reason for that. And why isn’t that person being opened up, and why isn’t that being studied? They’ve already written it off. They said that case is closed. If that were the opposite, that case would be going on for years and years, and it would not be pretty,” Trump said during a press conference in Bedminster, N.J. on Wednesday. What has fed Trump’s interest in the Babbitt story is unclear. But she isn’t the only area of overlapping interest between QAnon and Trump. Instead, a community that once revolved around Satanic ritual-based conspiracies now seems driven by the belief that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump by a vast conspiracy of shadowy elites, assisted by voting machine companies, a slavish mainstream media, secretive government agencies, and, perhaps, the Chinese government. “They are still 100 percent dedicated to believing Donald Trump is the rightful president, so the prophecy of what they’re waiting for has changed,” said Mike Rothschild, the author of the recently published book "The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything."