No Evidence QAnon Followers Are Buying Trump Inauguration Tickets

Misbar’s investigation has found that these alleged scam tickets have not been purchased. First, the image of the tickets is doctored. The original image comes from a stock photo source. In fact, part of the watermark is visible in the doctored image, proving that the image comes from this source specifically. (The watermarks appear above the tickets, near the top center and top right of the image.) 

The most popular tweet vaguely states that they are being sold on websites across the internet, but there are no specific instances. One site spreading this story claims that the tickets are being sold on Facebook. However, we checked both Facebook Marketplace and a range of popular QAnon groups and could find no evidence of anyone purchasing tickets for a fake second inauguration of President Trump. There is an incredibly slim possibility that the posts selling the fake tickets could have been removed since the story began spreading. It is likely that at least some evidence of these tickets being sold would exist, even if the scammers were trying to conceal their activities. 

It is possible that this image was created by someone as a joke as a reaction to the story that Trump appears to believe that he will be reinstated as president in August. Others may have mistakenly believed that people had been duped into purchasing the tickets.

As our analysis could not identify any instance of a person purchasing fake second Trump inauguration tickets, and the sources of this claim cannot provide any instances of purchases taking place, we rate this claim as false.