MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: “In 2021, Marchant … said that Wayne Willott — a QAnon influencer known online as ‘Juan O. Savin’ — helped create the coalition and recruit him to run for secretary of state.”

In Case You Missed It, a new article from Media Matters for America shows the strong ties between NVGOP secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant’s and QAnon. The article profiles the pseudonymous “Juan O. Savin” — the individual that Jim Marchant has bragged recruited him to run — and details how in recent days Savin has repeatedly and falsely claimed Dick Cheney led a “shadow government” agency that carried out “false flag” operations, including 9/11.

Statement from Nevada Democratic Victory Spokesperson Joshua Rush: “Ties to QAnon and his continued advocacy of 2020 election conspiracy theories make Jim Marchant the single most unqualified and dangerous candidate on the ballot for Nevada Secretary of State. Nevadans should be wary when Marchant appears on their ballot in November — and remember the danger of his un-American lies.”

FROM MMFA:

• The America First Secretary of State Coalition is led by Nevada Republican secretary of state nominee Jim Marchant.
  • The coalition aims to elect Republican candidates who have made false claims of widespread voter fraud to positions influencing election administration.
  • In 2021, Marchant appeared at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas and said that Wayne Willott — a QAnon influencer known online as “Juan O. Savin” — helped create the coalition and recruited him to run for secretary of state.
• WHO IS JUAN O. SAVIN?
  • QAnon influencer Juan O. Savin, who is involved in a coalition to recruit and elect election denier secretary of state candidates, has falsely claimed that the September 11 terrorist attacks were a false flag operation carried out by a United States “shadow government” agency to “manipulate the American people.”
  • In one interview posted online on September 18, Savin claimed his “buddy Bill Cooper” — referring to a deceased militia member and influential conspiracy theorist — predicted an attack on the World Trade Center months before the September 11 attacks, allegedly saying that the government was “going to try and pin something on Osama bin Laden.”
  • Savin added that “Osama bin Laden didn’t have shit to do with 9/11,” and claimed that it “was somebody’s way of conning you to get you ready so you’d accept what they wanted to do.”

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