Is Ron Watkins connected to Mike Lindell?

All about Ron Watkins

Ronald Watkins is an American conspiracy theorist and site administrator of the imageboard website 8chan. He has played a significant role in spreading the discredited far-right QAnon conspiracy theory. Ron has also promulgated baseless conspiracy theories that widespread election fraud led to Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. He is the son of Jim Watkins, the owner, and operator of 8chan. Some journalists and researchers believe that one or both of the Watkins know the identity of, or are themselves, “Q,” the person or group of people behind QAnon.

All about Mike Lindell

Michael James Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy, is an American businessman, conservative political activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the founder and CEO of My Pillow, Inc., a pillow, bedding, and slipper manufacturing company. Mike is also the founder of the Lindell Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps drug addicts. He has a self-published book about his addiction and relationship with God.

Ties to the world of politics

One of the most prominent figures in the QAnon conspiracy movement, Ron Watkins, said Monday he is running for Congress in Arizona because the state is at the forefront of the fight by many Republicans over the 2020 election results.

Watkins said he wants “to fix the elections from inside the machine.”

Lindell says he considers it his primary duty “towards God” as saving democracy by overturning the results of the 2020 presidential vote and handing the White House back to its rightful occupant, Donald Trump. Starting the week of the election, he has fervently supported his claims regarding election fraud at seemingly every level of American politics. He met with Trump at the White House in mid-January, shortly before Trump left office, and also offered MyPillow customers a discount code, “FightForTrump.” Mr. Lindell founded a website called Frank that has served as a clearinghouse for election conspiracy disinformation.

Lindell refuses to withdraw support even after revenue loss to MyPillow

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he expects to lose $65 million in pillow revenue this year. Retailers have boycotted his products following his claims that the 2020 U.S. election was wrought with fraudulent activities.

Lindell told Insider in an interview Monday after being served with a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems seeking $1.3 billion in damages, which presents itself as evidence he isn’t pushing election-fraud claims for the money.

“I lost 20 retailers, and it’s cost me $65 million this year that I won’t get back, OK?” Lindell told Insider. “There’s your story. Print it right. Don’t try and twist this.” 

That brings us to question why someone would intentionally suffer losses to pursue political propaganda that is not even personal. Questions have arisen regarding Mr. Lindell’s determination to prove the 2020 presidential election as fraudulent even amid grave losses to his enterprise. Sources report that there might be more to the issue than is visible. It has also been hinted that Mr. Lindell isn’t worried about MyPillow revenue losses because of rewards being garnered from elsewhere.

Hints regarding Mike Lindell and Ron Watkins being connected about political propaganda favoring Trump

More than half a year after Trump lost the presidential election, and with establishment-minded Republicans growing weary of re-litigating its outcome. Lindell has become the embodiment of a specific friction point in the Republican Party’s post-election identity. The belief that the election was rigged, still widely held among the populist Republican voting base. It is crashing into a political and legal system that long ago accepted the reality that it wasn’t.

Watkins has filed papers to run for Congress, hoping to unseat Democrat Tom O’Halleran in Arizona’s First Congressional District. Watkins says he’s running to “fix elections from inside the machine,” referring to the discredited idea that Trump’s 2020 election was stolen in swing states like Arizona. 

Ron Watkins’ application to run for Congress presents the motive behind his support for the controversy around Biden’s election as president. There is a possibility that Mr. Watkins’ attempt to discredit the 2020 election is his attempt to discredit Biden in the next presidential election, where the latter to submit candidature. 

Speculation has also arisen regarding Mike Lindell supporting the controversy. 

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Did Ron Watkins start the QAnon Movement?

 

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