MAGA Governor Candidate Busted Hanging Out With QAnon’s Biggest Nut

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No Coincidences When It Comes to MAGA’s NY Governor Hopeful Donald Trump has headed to New York late Friday, to campaign for his MAGA gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Blakeman.

Blakeman’s only claim to fame, until now, was being the ex-husband of Nancy Shevell , now married to Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney .

But The Swamp has learnt that Blakeman has another connection that could prove somewhat less useful on the campaign trail: QAnon, the crackpot conspiracy which has long animated the outer fringes of MAGA—and in particular, how he keeps being at events with its most notorious booster.

It turns out the 73-year-old, currently the county executive of Suffolk County, on Long Island, repeatedly crossed paths with the QAnon orbit.

He has amplified content posted by conspiracy theory accounts, and campaigned alongside figures who have promoted the movement’s bizarre—and often antisemitic—claims.