Trump Hotel raised prices to deter QAnon conspiracists, police files show

• Washington hotel pushed prices up on March weekend this year
• Rise was security tactic to prevent protesters booking rooms'

Police intelligence documents show that Washington's Trump Hotel raised its rates as a security tactic", in the hope of deterring Trump-supporting QAnon supporters from staying there in early March, on a day which some believed would see Trump restored to office.

The information, which police gleaned from a Business Insider version of a story published in Forbes on 6 February, was confirmed in an 8 February intelligence briefing stolen by ransomware hackers from Washington's Metropolitan police department (MPD).