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applegrove

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Fri Apr 12, 2019, 07:30 PM Apr 2019

Florida QAnon believer running unopposed in GOP primary for House seat

Florida QAnon believer running unopposed in GOP primary for House seatQAnon believer running against Rep. Al Lawson in north Florida says he plans to "decapitate the swamp creatures"

IGOR DERYSH

https://www.salon.com/2019/04/11/florida-qanon-believer-running-unopposed-in-gop-primary-for-house-seat/

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A Florida bookseller appears to be the first QAnon follower to run for Congress -- and is currently the only Republican seeking to challenge incumbent Rep. Al Lawson, a Democrat.

Matthew Lusk is the first Republican to declare his candidacy in Florida’s 5th congressional district, Florida Politics reported. That may be because Republicans believe they have no chance: The district stretches from Orlando to Jacksonville in an awkward curlicue through central and northern Florida, and was evidently engineered to have a majority African American population. Lawson was elected last November with 66.8 percent of the vote.

“I belong to no secret societies or clubs, Q is one of my issues because it’s definitely a leak from high places,” Lusk told the outlet. “I follow Q, but I don’t know who or what Q is.”

QAnon, a bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy theory born out of anonymous postings on the far-right forum 4chan, posits that a high-level government insider who goes by “Q” is leaking clues to Trump supporters about what is really going on in the deep state. The conspiracy theory involves outlandish claims that Hillary Clinton and other high-profile Democrats are part of a child sex trafficking ring that Trump is secretly working to bring down. A best-selling book about QAnon “claims that Democrats murder and eat children and that the government created AIDS, polio and Lyme disease” and that “the world is run by a Satanic cabal led by Hillary Clinton,” MarketWatchreported.



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