Congressional witness on human trafficking has used QAnon programs to amplify her claims
Tara Lee Rodas, a supposed whistleblower, has gone on a series of QAnon-affiliated shows leading up to and since her congressional testimony before a Republican-controlled House subcommittee
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A supposed government whistleblower who testified before Congress in April and alleged that President Joe Biden’s administration was allowing human trafficking has gone on multiple programs associated with the dangerous QAnon conspiracy theory to promote her claims.
Tara Lee Rodas, a federal employee at the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, was featured in a November 2022 video put out by Project Veritas — the beleaguered far-right political organization known for its deceptively edited videos and questionable undercover sting operations — claiming that the Department of Health and Human Services was allowing migrant children to be sponsored by people involved with human trafficking and that her internal concerns about it were dismissed. Rodas repeated these claims during testimony before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee in April.
Since the November Project Veritas video came out, Rodas has appeared at least 8 times on programs affiliated with QAnon or with QAnon-supporting hosts to discuss her allegations — twice leading up to her congressional testimony and six after it. In these interviews, she has lauded the QAnon-supporting hosts and suggested she has been following them in some capacity.