QAnon/GOP Senate Candidate Admits He Filed False Report Of Child Trafficking At Maryland Adult Bookstore

The Daily Beast reports:

A failed Republican congressional candidate allied with prominent Stop The Steal conspiracy theorists has admitted to fabricating a story about child sex trafficking to gain attention for his campaign. Ryan Dark White, who ran a longshot Senate bid in Maryland under the name Jon McGreevey and sometimes referred to himself as the “Patriot Whistleblower,” caused a furor last year when he described lurid acts of child abuse that he allegedly witnessed while working in an adult bookstore.

White’s claims of child trafficking made him a sympathetic figure on the far right, where he had made similar and baseless allegations against Mike Pence and Chief Justice John Roberts following Trump’s 2022 election loss. The apology goes on to note that he distributed pictures of the child to his followers, falsely claiming the child was being trafficked. White also made videos claiming to have seen the child half-nude and that she had been forced into sex acts with adults in the back of the store.

Read the full article. There’s much, much more. No paywall. My July 2022 report on this freak show is here.

After being charged with making a false report, Ryan Dark White, otherwise known as Dr. Jon McGreevy, issued a full apology and admission to fabricating a child trafficking story for his political benefit. https://t.co/0kb01YKRiG pic.twitter.com/KTmO6P9Ynk

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