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Celerity

(50,821 posts)
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 08:28 AM Nov 2022

Meet the QAnon Leader Who Also Happens to Be a Groomer

QAnon leader Phil Godlewski carried on an inappropriate relationship with a minor that police records suggest turned sexual.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-leader-phil-godlewski-has-sordid-past-of-his-ownincluding-a-conviction-for-corrupting-a-minor



Believers in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory are always on the hunt for the powerful pedophiles they imagine run the world—like the cabal of pedophiles they say controls the Democratic Party, or the one operating out of the imagined basement of a Washington pizzeria. But now, new court records reveal that QAnon leader Phil Godlewski has a criminal past of his own involving an inappropriate relationship with a minor that police records suggest turned sexual.

Thanks to an ill-conceived defamation lawsuit against a local newspaper, Godlewski has put his conspiracy-theory career at risk by inadvertently prompting the release of more details regarding his case, including lurid text messages and a video of his erect penis. Perhaps worse, according to his courtroom opponents, records suggest Godlewski has been caught both committing perjury himself and attempting to convince his own victim to do the same to ensure a “financial windfall” for them both.

Now, in a bombshell motion, the newspaper claims they’ve caught Godlewski breaking a bevy of courtroom rules and want him to pay $70,000 in legal fees and damages. As the case heats up and revelations spill out, it also offers a chance to see the kind of person who can profit from the persistent conspiracy theory.

QAnon has ruined families, inspired multiple gruesome murders, and helped power the Jan. 6 insurrection. But QAnon has also been a lucrative career for Godlewski, a Pennsylvania-based promoter of the conspiracy theory who speaks to his fans in lengthy, rambling livestream videos. With more than 600,000 followers on the social media app Telegram and 156,000 subscribers on the alternative video platform Rumble, Godlewski profits from encouraging his fans to sign up for financial arrangements like a multilevel marketing scheme that sells silver. Earlier this year, Godlewski used his QAnon earnings to buy a $1.7 million house.

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tanyev

(47,106 posts)
3. Yep. No better way to deflect from your transgressions than by leading the charge
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 09:42 AM
Nov 2022

against someone else's imagined transgressions. Or so they must think.

Maraya1969

(23,305 posts)
4. I've said that the pedophiles are hanging out in that organization.
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 09:48 AM
Nov 2022

(I can't use their name because that letter is broken on my laptop keyboard!!)

Maraya1969

(23,305 posts)
11. I don't think I have one of those. I have an Acer laptop, about 2.5 years old but I use
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 02:31 PM
Nov 2022

it all the time so it is really stressed out.

IronLionZion

(49,433 posts)
6. Always projecting their crimes
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 11:23 AM
Nov 2022

I'm sure there are more Qanons involved in exactly what they claim to be against.

Timeflyer

(3,267 posts)
7. The evil rancid spew Qers and MAGAloons concoct--
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 11:45 AM
Nov 2022

I used to naively ask, "who thinks like that?!?" Well, obviously...

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
10. The newpaper's lawyers say Q-boy withheld those texts during discovery.
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 02:31 PM
Nov 2022

Some judges get annoyed about such things.

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