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Although Vanderbilt said that her daughter “was always taken care of” during her time as a QAnon supporter, she said it still “made me emotionally unavailable to a point with her.”

\"I'd pick her up from school and I'd bring her home and make her dinner, [bathe] her, put her to bed, but we didn't play that much. I wasn't cuddling with her and giving her ... the emotional attention that she needed because I was too wrapped up worrying about everything.\"

\"I just had so much going on that I feel like I couldn't be there for her the way that she needed me to be,\" she added.

Experts who track extremist ideologies and movements, as well as domestic terrorism in the U.S., said in August 2019 QAnon is a unique and unpredictable new strain of extremism in America's far-right political landscape.

In August 2020, Trump made comments on QAnon’s conspiracy theory featuring him as its savior. \"Well I don't know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much -- which I appreciate\"

He also said, \"I’ve heard these are people that love our country.\"

A reporter then explained the conspiracy theory to him, saying it’s \"this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals,” and asking him, “Does that sound like something you are behind or a believer in?\"

\"Well, I haven’t ... heard that,\" Trump replied. \"But is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing? I mean, you know, if I can help save the world from problems, I’m willing to do it. I’m willing to put myself out there.\"

Vanderbilt told co-host Sunny Hostin that if Trump had disavowed the conspiracy theory and told its supporters that politicians and Hollywood elites weren't torturing children or drinking their blood, she would have listened. Maybe she said, others would have, too.

\"If [Trump] would have said that the election was not fraudulent, I would have listened,\" Vanderbilt continued. \"He had a lot of lies that he could have cleared up.\"

In hindsight, Vanderbilt offered a message to those who still follow the QAnon conspiracy theory.

\"Life outside of that group is nowhere near as scary as what it seems,\" she said. \"If you're questioning or doubting and wondering what's true ... leave all of that disappointment and anger and lies and come be with me and so many friends that I've made that are so supportive.\"

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