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Walmart, Amazon among donors to QAnon-promoting lawmaker

In this March 15, 2016 file photo, Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mt. Juliet, listens to the testimony during a House subcommittee hearing in Nashville, Tenn.
Associated Press
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN message boards popular with right-wing ex- QAnon slogan on her Twitter and Facebook
Associated Press tremists. accounts, Lynn told the AP in an interview Fri-
Walmart, Amazon and other corporate giants Dozens of QAnon-promoting candidates have day that she does not support the conspiracy
donated money to the reelection campaign of run for federal or state offices during this elec- theory.
a Tennessee state lawmaker who had used so- tion cycle. Collectively, they have raised mil- Amazon said in a statement that it "made a do-
cial media to amplify and promote the QAnon lions of dollars from thousands of donors. Indi- nation to Rep. Lynn nearly a year ago — we do
conspiracy theory, according to an Associated vidually, however, most of them have run poorly not plan on making another one."
Press review of campaign finance records and financed campaigns with little or no corporate Walmart did not respond to repeated requests
the candidate's posts. or party backing. Unlike state Rep. Susan Lynn, for comment made by email and through its
The corporate support for a QAnon-promoting who chairs the Tennessee House finance com- website.
politician is another example of how the con- mittee, few are incumbents who can attract
spiracy theory has penetrated mainstream corporate PAC money. Continued on Page 2
politics, spreading beyond its origins on internet Though she repeatedly posted a well-known