I’m not making this up; QAnon freaks are.
He uses the handle “Juan O. Savin” now, but his birth name is Wayne Willott.
Willott aka Savin is camera-shy (for obvious reasons), but I dug up this photo; judge for yourself if there’s a family resemblance to the Kennedys.
But I’ll say this much: Willott, 65, was born in the wrong year (1957), and is too alive, to be John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999).
He’s a podcaster of the far-far-right conspiracy theorist species, virtually unknown outside QAnon circles, and he’s joining forces with failed Nevada candidate Jim Marchant (photo below right with gun, profiled here) to get election deniers elected to positions that oversee elections in Michigan, Nevada, and other states. They’re having some success in GOP primaries, which makes them worth writing about.
At first they worked together “to uncover ‘the fraudulent election.’ But by May 2021, they were looking to the future. They convened a meeting of conservative activists, donors, and media figures, all focused on seizing the secretary of state offices that administer elections. The group that emerged from that meeting, the America First Secretary of State Coalition, now stands poised to have its candidates win offices in key battleground states,” having won GOP nominations, the Daily Beast says here.
Daily Beast continues, “Willott’s ability to organize viable candidates represents QAnon’s voice within the Republican Party, as the proto-fascist movement grows from its base as an online conspiracy theory claiming Democrats are blood-drinking Satanic pedophiles into one that could soon affect how elections are administered.” But, “Despite his growing influence, almost nothing has been reported about Willott’s [dodgy] background” by major media outlets.
“The Daily Beast has amassed the most extensive reporting on Willott yet, from his background as a second-rate investigator looking into Bill Clinton in the 1990s to his reinvention as the cosmopolitan secret agent Juan O. Savin, to his new role as a power broker on the far right.”
So, Willott — a Seattle native, who “appears to still live there” — is a reincarnation, alright. But of himself, not JFK Jr.; exploiting that pose is merely convenient, giving him credibility within a subset of QAnon fanatics. And with no one else.
Now your job as voters is to know who these people and their ilk — there are more like them — are, and who their candidates are, and then make sure none of them get elected. The lesson here is that nowadays you must know who you’re voting for. You can no longer skim the voter pamphlet and simply vote for “R” or “D”, although it’s a lot more dangerous to vote for Republicans because there are no QAnon or otherwise crazy Democrats on today’s ballots.