Seattle man wonders if his childhood friend is the leader of Q-Anon By Patrick Malone, The Seattle Times
Published: April 13, 2021, 8:04am
Share: Jim, left, and Ron Watkins in Q: Into the Storm. (Courtesy of HBO)
Shawn Lawrence “was hit with a brick” when he learned his high-school best friend – who he’d carried tunes with in choir and spent countless hours having innocent fun with – has become gatekeeper of the internet’s gutter.
Lawrence, 34, laughs recounting memories of Ron Watkins at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, north of Seattle. They forged a tight bond as one-quarter of a barbershop octet in the school choir before graduating in 2005, capping what Lawrence described as an exceedingly wholesome childhood.
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Who is Q? HBO documentary identifies QAnon leader as Ron Watkins
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Posted Mar 16, 2021
This HBO video still shows Ron Watkins, suspected of being QAnon leader Q, in the new documentary series Q: Into the Storm. Video still
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Who is Q? The leader of the right-wing conspiracy theory group known as QAnon has remained a mystery for several years, but a new HBO documentary says it’s identified “Q.”
“Q: Into the Storm,” a new six-part HBO docuseries by filmmaker Cullen Hoback, explores the bizarre, widely discredited internet cult who believes “Q” is an anonymous government insider posting cryptic clues about a sex-trafficking ring made up of pedophiles and cannibals that plotted against President Trump. QAnon supporters were among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and spread baseless claims Trump would remain a “shadow president” after President Joe Biden won the election and that Trump would return to the White Hous