Here Are The Republicans Who Have Denounced QAnon

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.): Kinzinger became one of the first and most prominent leaders in his party to denounce QAnon earlier this month when he posted a video to YouTube saying “it’s time” for members of the GOP to condemn the conspiracy theory.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.): After Trump declined to criticize QAnon, the Nebraska senator called the conspiracy theory “nuts” and argued “real leaders call conspiracy theories, conspiracy theories.” 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.): McCarthy’s office recently said that Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congressional candidate who has openly touted QAnon, would be welcomed into the party and allowed to serve on committees, but on Friday he told Fox News that there is “no place” in the Republican Party “for QAnon,” before claiming Greene had “denounced” the conspiracy theory and suggesting the Georgia Republican should get a second chance (Greene attempted to distance herself from QAnon during an interview with Fox News on August 14, but she didn’t denounce it.)

Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.): In a statement on Thursday, Cheney said that QAnon is a “dangerous lunacy” that deserves “no place in American politics.”

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Bush, who lost to Trump during the presidential primary in 2016 and frequently bashes the president, wrote on Twitter that Trump should have told QAnon believers they “have no place in either party.”

Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.): Riggleman called QAnon the “mental gonorrhea” of conspiracy theories because “it’s disgusting and you want to get rid of it as fast as possible,” while also warning that if Greene is the “future of the Republican Party,” as Trump said, the GOP is “in trouble.”

Karl Rove: President George W. Bush’s deputy chief of staff called QAnon a “group of nuts and kooks” and said Trump “ought to disavow them” during an interview with Fox News on Thursday.

Ari Fleischer: The former Bush White House press secretary said Trump would be “better off denouncing QAnon,” and called its supporters “a bunch of wackadoodles.”