QAnoners duped by Trump, Melania impostors on Telegram

Attempts to convince QAnon believers not to follow have been inadvertently hindered by Lin Wood, the pro-Trump attorney whose legal attacks on the election results turned him into a MAGAworld star.

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“Melania is a genius,” Wood posted on his genuine Telegram account on Jan. 18, linking his hundreds of thousands of Telegram followers to the fake Melania Trump Telegram account. “A beautiful genius. And she loves her husband and her son. They are geniuses too.”

Wood’s backing proved to be a powerful endorsement for some of the fake accounts. In QAnon chatrooms on Telegram, believers said they had been convinced the Melania Trump account was fake themselves—until they saw Wood post about it, persuading them that it was in fact real.

Wood, who has claimed the Georgia State Bar wants him to take a mental health evaluation to retain his membership, didn’t respond to a request for comment on whether he realized the Melania Trump account was fake.

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