Oprah Winfrey's Ankle Monitor: What's The Story?

Following Oprah Winfrey's interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, conspiracy theorists have claimed that Winfrey was wearing an ankle monitor. This claim was made by QAnon supporters, who believe that Winfrey is among the powerful celebrities who make up a massive child sex trafficking ring. This theory suggests that many of these elites have been covertly arrested or confined to their homes.

The QAnon conspiracy theory

QAnon followers believe that a cabal of prominent Democrats and Hollywood celebrities will be arrested and executed, fulfilling a prophecy called "the storm". The ankle monitors are believed to be a sign that this process is beginning.

QAnon supporters have claimed that Oprah Winfrey was wearing an ankle monitor during her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Stills from the interview appear to show a lump on the side of Oprah's boot, which conspiracy theorists claim is an ankle monitor. This belief is based on the theory that Oprah is among the powerful celebrities who make up a massive child sex trafficking ring.

This is not the first time Oprah has been the centre of a QAnon conspiracy theory. In 2020, conspiracy theorists claimed that Oprah was wearing an ankle monitor in a home cooking video she posted on social media.

Oprah's ankle monitor was a crease in her boot

Following her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey was the subject of a bizarre conspiracy theory. QAnon supporters claimed that Winfrey was wearing an ankle monitor, speculating that she was under house arrest for her involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Stills from the interview appeared to show a lump on the side of her boot, which was likely just a crease in the material. This fuelled the conspiracy theory, with QAnon followers believing that Winfrey was secretly arrested and confined to her home.

This is not the first time that Winfrey has been the centre of a QAnon rumour. In March 2020, she issued a statement on Twitter denying that her house had been raided and that she had been arrested. She attributed the rumours to an "awful FAKE thing".

The ankle monitor theory is part of the broader QAnon belief that former President Donald Trump is fighting a global Satanic trafficking ring run by paedophiles within the Democratic Party and Hollywood elite.

QAnon's belief that Oprah is part of a child sex trafficking ring

QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy theory that emerged in 2017, perpetuating the idea of a ""deep state" and alleging that former President Donald Trump is working to take down "Hollywood elites" who are secretly running a Satanic, global child-sex-trafficking ring. QAnon followers believe that Trump is still secretly the president and is calling the shots to expose and take down these politicians and celebrities.

In March 2021, QAnon supporters speculated that Oprah Winfrey was wearing an ankle monitor during her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Stills from the interview circulated that appeared to show a lump on the side of Oprah's boot—likely a simple crease in the material of her footwear. However, this was enough to fuel the conspiracy theory that Oprah was wearing an ankle monitor, suggesting that she had been covertly arrested and placed under house arrest for her involvement in a child-sex-trafficking ring.

The belief among QAnon supporters is that Oprah is among the powerful celebrities who make up a massive child-sex-trafficking ring. They claim that many of these powerful elites have been covertly arrested or confined to their homes, and believers of QAnon count Oprah as one of these culpable stars.

This was not the first time Oprah had been the centre of QAnon rumours. In March 2020, she issued a statement on Twitter denying that she had been arrested in a raid of her home in Florida. She wrote:

> "Just got a phone call that my name is trending. And being trolled for some awful FAKE thing. It's NOT TRUE. Haven't been raided, or arrested. Just sanitizing and self distancing with the rest of the world. Stay safe everybody."

The original "report" included footage of a supposed raid on her home, but the bodycam footage was found to be of a different house.

QAnon's belief that Trump is fighting a global Satanic trafficking ring

QAnon is a far-right American political conspiracy theory and movement that originated in 2017. It is centered on fabricated claims made by an anonymous individual or individuals known as "Q". QAnon holds that a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic child molesters is operating a global child sex trafficking ring that conspired against former President Donald Trump. The theory has direct roots in Pizzagate, an internet conspiracy theory that appeared a year earlier.

Followers of QAnon believe that Trump is secretly fighting a global Satanic trafficking ring run by baby-eating paedophiles within the Democratic Party and the Hollywood elite. Many QAnon believers say that Trump is still secretly the president and is working behind the scenes to take down these politicians and celebrities. They believe that Trump is secretly battling the cabal and that Q reveals details about the battle online.

QAnon followers have named Democratic politicians, Hollywood actors, high-ranking government officials, business tycoons, and medical experts as members of the cabal. They also claim that Trump stimulated the conspiracy of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the sex trafficking ring and prevent a coup d'état by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros.

QAnon has been described as a cult, and its followers have perpetrated acts of violence. After Joe Biden won the 2020 election, QAnon followers were involved in efforts to overturn the results. Associates of Trump, such as Michael Flynn, Lin Wood, and Sidney Powell, have promoted QAnon-derived conspiracy theories.

QAnon's core beliefs include the idea that the world is controlled by a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping child molesters and that Trump is secretly battling to stop them. They believe that the cabal covers up its existence by controlling politicians, the mainstream media, and Hollywood. Q's revelations imply that the cabal's destruction is imminent but also that it will only be accomplished with the support of the "patriots" of the QAnon community.

QAnon followers believe that the cabal includes Democratic Party politicians like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton; business people like George Soros and Bill Gates; religious leaders like Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama; and entertainers like Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Lady Gaga, and Chrissy Teigen.

QAnon has been heavily promoted by believers and has gained traction on the mainstream right. It has also been propagated through Russian and Chinese state-backed media, social media troll accounts, and the far-right Falun Gong-associated Epoch Media Group. Since its emergence, QAnon has spawned movements around the world, and it has been described as a "big tent conspiracy theory" due to its ability to evolve and add new claims.

QAnon's belief that Oprah is under house arrest

QAnon, the right-wing conspiracy theory group, has targeted Oprah on several occasions, claiming she is part of a global Satanic trafficking ring run by paedophiles within the Democratic Party and Hollywood elite.

In March 2020, during the early months of the coronavirus lockdowns in the US, QAnon conspiracy theorists falsely claimed that Oprah's house had been raided by federal agents and that she had been arrested for sex trafficking. The rumour was accompanied by images that seemed to show Oprah's Boca Raton house surrounded by red tape and red cross signs. The claim was debunked by outlets including Snopes, and Oprah herself denied the claims on Twitter.

In March 2021, QAnon targeted Oprah again, this time claiming that she was wearing an ankle monitor during her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Stills from the interview circulated that appeared to show a lump on the side of Oprah's boot, which QAnon supporters claimed was an ankle monitor. QAnon supporters believe that Oprah is among the powerful celebrities who make up a massive child sex trafficking ring and that she has been covertly arrested or confined to her home. Again, Oprah denied the claims.

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