Trump hotel in Washington boosts price for March 4, date QAnon predicts ex-president’s return to power
- Trump International Hotel cites ‘supply and demand’ for higher price on March 4
- Forbes says Cheapest room at hotel on January 5 and 6, time of attack on US Capitol, was about US$8,000
The Trump International Hotel near the White House is eyeing a big payday on March 4, the date that some believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory will herald ex-president Donald Trump’s triumphant return to power, Forbes first reported.
This unfounded belief, shared by the sovereign citizen movement, is based on a conspiracy theory that a law enacted in 1871 turned the US into a corporation and that every president since Ulysses S. Grant has been illegal.
Prior to 1937, US presidents were sworn into office in early March, hence the date’s significance to QAnon and the sovereign citizen movement.
The FBI identifies the movement, which lacks any organisational structure, as “domestic terrorism” and calls followers “anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or ‘sovereign’ from the United States” – including the courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments, and even law enforcement.
Citing demand, the Trump International Hotel raised room prices for that night to over US$1,000, more than double the next highest date in the month, according to Insider.
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