The Rise and Fall of Lin Wood

of the name Lynn Wood. He has been a known face amongst the Q and on community now for a few years. He has helped spread the conspiracy theory all over the place via the one million followers he had on social media before he was banned from Twitter for advocating the execution of former Vice President Mike Pence. Yeah, that's Lynn would Linwood has become one of the most prolific Q and on main characters now that Q has vanished and the movement has been pushed underground as it were.

Linnwood now has a Telegram channel with over eight hundred thousand subscribers at the time of recording. There he pushes the most outlandish q and On theories that you've ever seen. He's another loud, outspoken proponent of this idea that Trump is somehow still in control. Actually he won the election, and everything that we see going on now with Biden and what have you is all just a sham, and the q and Ons are going to reign supreme and come in and take over blah blah blah. You've heard

it all before. He's a big proponent of this kind of ideology. Looking at his telegram channel now it's a kind of erratic mess. I'm looking at it now. He's posted saying, I have been reflecting this evening on the reality that evil has invaded almost every aspect of our society, and the enemy has immense wealth, power and influence. When you view our present situation from the worldview, it sure does seem dire, doesn't it. How in the world can we overcome the widespread evil and drain it from our

country and our lives. To clean up the mess in one that we began to see clearly in twenty twenty is going to take extraordinary efforts by each patriot who loves freedom and our nation which was founded under God it's a lot of that kind of stuff, all wrapped up in Q and on rhetoric, Q and on ideas. On the surface, it might just seem like kind of oh, hardcore US patriotism, But the kind of answer to all of these questions that Lynnwood puts forward is usually something

to do with Q and on. So who the hell is lynn would well believe it or not. Lynnwood was at one point in time a very famous attorney in America. He was part of the scandalous Richard Jewel case, in which the FBI wrongly accused an innocent man, Richard Jewell,

of being involved with the deadly Atlanta Olympics bombing. It wasn't Richard Jewel, it was some other guy that reckoned that everybody in America was turning into a communist because of X y Z. Quite ironic when you think about it, considering it's to do with Q and on now and a lot of them believe that at this moment. Anyway, Lynnwood helped clear Richard Jewell's name and became very successful

at defamation cases. He was respected, people knew his work, But now he has disgraced himself, his real and his legacy by becoming a hard core Q and ON true believer, or at least that's the way he presents himself. To get the full detailed background on this, I spoke to Ali Mezzi, an attorney and Q and ON researcher who has had her I very firmly on lynn Wood for

a long time. Have a listen. Lynn Wood is an attorney from Georgia, and I can start way back from when Lynnwood was a kid, because um, he actually had a really tragic youth. Um when he was sixteen, he returned home from a date to find his mother's body after his father had beaten her to death, and he had to call the police and his father was arrested and charged with first degree murder. But um he was able to plead to a reduced count and spend only

two years in prison. In a quote published by the Albany Herald, lynn Wood said that his experience what inspired him to become a lawyer. Um. He said that even though his father had committed this hideous crime, he was still his father, and he remembered how the lawyers had done everything they could to help his father, and he thought that they had done it out of a desire to help him, but uh, it made him just want

to be a lawyer. So he was able to go to college in law school on a scholarship, and he kind of became um, he became a personal injury um and defending what he became a lawyer of that. UM litigated personal injury and malfact disclaims for about the first twenty years of his career, and after that he became a defamation lawyer. And so after that he ended up

representing Richard Jewel, which is what we've already mentioned. He also covered a load of other defamation cases where he went against the media people that were accusing X, Y and Z about this, that and the other. He was one of them guys that ended up being known as the attorney of the dumbed. He was the guy that would represent the little guy, the person that was defamed

by the media, etcetera, etcetera. But now let's skip forward to when Lynnwood started kind of slipping into what would later become the Q and On main character role and so like going on and he was like kind of like turned into Maga and then like later to Q

and On. Um. You know, his thing was he was just a high profile defamation lawyer, and you know, he had some other work to like business law and medical malpractice and boss claims acts, but his work against tabloids and newspapers was how he really became famous and widely respected and for his reputation, um, for his representation of clients that had been condemned by the media and in

courts of public opinion. He became known as the attorney for the dam And a lot of the profiles that you know, you read about him from before his most recent chapter are just like absolutely glowing um. But you know the thing is, i'd say that, like, um, how good it Like Lynnwood was just like a trial attorney. It was like second to what he was great at, which was going to the press for statements that he would make on behalf of his clients where these clear, dramatic,

powerful statement. So he was a bit of a showman as well, right right, And that was like his A lot of his power came from it that you know, he was just this huge showman, which is you know, and I think that's you know, what's made him like really great as kind of a Q and on guy too, because he's the show voter and I can't really say, um where his for a into the world of Q

and On and make America Great Again began? But I personally, I have a theory that it started kind of coming together because Lynnwood was representing this, like, um, do you know who Steve Wynn is? I didn't know either, But Steve Wynn is a billionaire real estate and casino mogul,

as well as being a US Republican Party Megadonna. Win was accused of sexual misconduct in eighteen and went on to hire lynn Wood to handle any cases of defamation made against him in regards to the allegations, which he says false. Now, working with Steve Wynn obviously put lynn Would closer to the political elite. You've got to remember, Steve Wynn is a billionaire. He's been donating a lot of money to the Republican Party. Lynnwood is working now

for him on the defamation case. It puts him into that sphere. And so he's kind of like getting in good at the beginning with this, like you know this, Mega Donna. And so after Richard Jewel passed away in two thousand seven, Would apparently really wanted him to be

passionously awarded the presidential Medal of Freda. And so, according to reporting by the Wall Street Chair, Wood said that he asked Steve Wynnum, who had Trump's here, because you know, he'd given so much money that the GOP to make the case to Trump the Jewels should be awarded the medal. And um, I'm just going to repeat some of the on the Wall Street Journal reporting here. So in January, Mr Wood said that he received word from the White

House that Mr Trump would meet with him. Weeks later, at Mr Winn's request, Mr Wood gave three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars to Trump Victory, a pro Trump political action committee. According to Mr Wood in the Federal Election Commission records, Mr Wood said he made the donation as a favor to Mr Wynn and because of Mr wood support for Mr Trump, unconnected to his efforts on behalf of Mr Jewell and like, yeah, to get like you know, his like his like we really wanted this

guy to get like this medal of honor. And so Wood went to meet with Trump in March twenty and as far as I'm aware, Richard Jewell was never awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Like Trump just didn't do it and so like it's it's kind of like my speculation that he started kind of courting more goop stuff UM for misake of honoring jewels um, you know, jewels memory, but it is also is possible, but he had a genuine shipped opinion that made him like really into Trump UM.

And you know, more recently, you know, his clients have included a lot of highly polarizing figures with like a strong like right wing band or like strong right wing culture war people UM, including like um market for Frician mcclauskey UM, those UM St Louis, the lawyers who were photographed pointing weapons that protesters marching outside their house, and also Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with fatally shooting to

protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And he was also representing Nick Sandman UM, a student who's Washington d C encounter with the Native American protester made national news in a libel suit against The New York Times. So we can see a patent forming here. Lynnwood has basically gone from being the lawyer of the dumbed to the lawyer of the Maga cultural people. However, is he using these people for his own means or is he actually trying to help them? Well,

you decide. Listen to this. In January of this year, Sanman publicly fired him on Twitter, claiming what had made untrew unfair and unfounded comments about him. Steve Wynn and Kyle Rittenhouse have also fired Wood because it seems like a lot of people right now are like not happy with this work. The website One Crime did um an interview an exclusive interview with Kyle Rittenhouse's mother, and here's what Kyle Rittenhouse's mother has to say about Lynn would

because this was apparently very acrimonious. Um, so they used Kyle to gain money and gain Twitter followers. Um when she was discussing the conduct of Lynnwood and then another attorney named John Pierce in managing Kyle's criminal defense and the funds that raised for him and their fight back. They have an organization called fight Back, and it's like all the money that they raised for Kyle Rittenhouse putting this fight Ford. I feel now that they don't care

about Kyle of Wood. She said, he used my son's image to make a profit off that I asked for an accounting of it and he never got it. I was ignored they used a seventeen year old kids image from for their own political ship and um Wendy Rittenhouse also uses what of leaving Kyle and jail for eighty seven days even though fight back the money to bail

him out. Um Wendy told Lawton Crime, he told me that my son would be safe in jail because he thought that on the night of election on November three and fourth, but there was gonna be arm again and Kyle was going to be safer in jail. Yes, you heard that right. Lynn Wood is so obsessed with q and On seemingly believed in it so much that he told Kyle Rittenhouse his mother, do not bail him out of jail, even though you have the money too, because there's going to be an armygeddon across the days of

the election and he will be safer in the prison. CS. That is absolute madness, sure, but it's what Q said was going to happen. Not only is Lynn would pushing his pro qut and On agenda online on social media, he's actually allowing it to eat into his legal work

as an attorney. Okay, and so but what about Q and On because you know it's him kind of getting intoinst like you see Lynnwood getting into conservative cultural war stuff more and more, you know, kind of becoming a conservative mouthpiece where it's like, you know, apparently before you know, before his past year, um, these past few years, um, you know, Lynnwood would donate either Democrats or Republicans. Um. You know, he was not like a very strong like

party guy. Because the thing is, it's like I think you like kind of like waited in the que by, like you know what would be going into like you know, these conservative culture war things and like kind of becoming a big respected name that way. So there might have been public earlier public science and his attraction to Q

and On. But around um July, the outlet Tector noticed in its coverage of a Twitter spat between Wood and CNN personality Brian Stetler that woods Twitter bio contained hashtag w w G one w G a um, And they're like, oh, does this guy believe in you and on? But you know, at this point, like what wasn't really a Q and

on influencer. He was like, Oh, Nick Sandman's weird lawyer who happens to have Q and on stuff in his bio, And you know he was just in like the headlines, it's like this conservative fire brand and like, you know, some people were like does he believe in Q and On? Because he wasn't really talking about it yet. I think the the election lawsuits for what really UM propelled um Lynn Wood and also Sidney Powell, who was Michael Flynn's attorney, UM into Q and On stardom. Though that you know,

been known entities of UM right. It has right wing need personalities before. So right after the presidential election where Joe Biden, one UM would brought a lawsuit as a plaintiff in Georgia trying to overturn Biden's victory in the state based on these constitutional claims about the process by which certain rules about counting absentee ballots were passed. UM. But this lawsuit um Lynn Woard versus Ramsburger wasn't good and it failed to get very far. It got dis misperstanding,

but it really wasn't that bonkers. It was like nitpicking about rulemaking, saying that you know, he didn't think the Secretary of State of Georgia had the authority to enter into a dissent agreement to modify certain election rules. And then Sydney Powell filed just a bunch of completely out their lawsuits that she called the crack in in a bunch of states, and Lynnwood signed onto those as of counsel and went out promoting them and went out to rallies.

And you know in these cracking lawsuits are the ones where um you know powelland would um but Powell co signed by world um illege the dominion voting machines were used to comittle action fraud. So this is where lynn Would really starts getting his teeth into the Q and on conspiracy theories. He co signs a lawsuit that says, we want to look into these dominion voting machines because

we think they're being rigged. We think the election is being stolen by Now, if you've been listening to Q Clearance, you will know all about this, stop the steel. Trump didn't really lose the election, all of that. This is the sort of stuff lynn Would first started getting his foot into the door with when it comes to real

hardline Q and on conspiracy theories. Don't tell my word for it, though, have a listen to what these lawsuits were consisting of, and you can decide if you think these sound legitimate and there anywhere from like fifty hundred pages long, and they're supported by affidavits of like anonymous

people called spider Um, you know, Venezuelan super spies. And then um Ron Watkins was an expert witness in it and because you know, they had to ask for his expert credentials and it literally was well I read the Deminion user manual. Yeah, And so of course they were

just like squarely rejected by the courts. They were like tossed out, um, And that's real, Like Powell and Would Um just started just obtaining this level of superstar status and Q worlds and you know, I think this and the Georgia runoff was the point where lynn Wood kind of started alienating a lot of the mainstream Republican party. At this point, Would started to just advocate that Trump voters should just not vote in that center run off.

And you know, he was doing all these stop the Steel rallies, and he was up on stage saying, um, you know, they haven't earned your vote, don't give it to them, Like why would you go back and vote in another mid election? Like why are you voting? You know when they've stolen it? And that started getting like normy Republicans mad at him. Um, because like you know,

he was just telling people not to vote. He starts getting like more into que here and Um, the stuff just kind of like made him a more powerful voice in the Q community because you know, sensibly Q was against corruption the whole establishment, not just the Democrats, and like you know that's what they say, but like they were very very willing to like you know, some people definitely did probably withhold their votes. Um, do you do you think Lynn would? I just trying to get my

head on this. It's so weird that he went down this path, Like do you do you think Lynn would genuinely is a true believer or do you think he's up to something some kind of shenanigans. I don't know. It's just so like he's basically just thrown his career down the bin. Yeah, no, I don't know, because it's like, you know, it's like after this, he just starts getting

like just ramping up and ramping up. But so running up to the Georgia runoff in January five, and in hind the riot at the capital on January six, what just kept going, especially as there were always attempts to get the Supreme Court to hear lawsuits about the election, and so the Supreme Court became a focus of Q and general right wing media buzz, and Lynnwood started to take them A Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts on Twitter, I've got some I've got some tweets

from late December. Um So a couple more questions for Chief Justice John Roberts. One, you are recorded discussing Justice the Scalleia's successor before date of his sudden death. How did you know Scalleia was going to die too? Are you a member of any club or catball requiring minor children? It's an initiation being okay. A bit more on c J John Roberts. I publicly accused him of justice him and Justice Bryer of being profaned, being profane, anti trumpers.

I have linked Roberts to legal adoption, Jeffrey Epstein, pedophelia, and prior knowledgically as death. Does Robert skip class of defamation? Maybe not. I'm where I'm fully aware of the on splot of attacks being made based on my revelations about Chief Justice John Roberts. Before attacking me, maybe fair minded

people would first ask Roberts to tell the truth. So like Wood was like just going on these tirades about Roberts, um, you know and saying, oh, Roberts hasn't sued me for defamation and that's because it's true, and you know not like sorry, but he had like a million followers almost on Twitter, right he Yeah, he had, Yeah, he had

like a million something or followers on Twitter. And like so at the time while he's doing this, the Q community is circulating all these pictures of like there was a modeling agents, um, John Leie Brunell that kind of looks like Roberts. So you know, there was pictures of him and Epstein are like, um John Leie Burnell and like Umji Lane Maxwell um, and they see like see

there's Roberts. And there was photoshops of Roberts the black Eye implying he'd done like some initiation and the black Eye Club for like a Satanic ritual or you know, the to be discussions of how there's a person named John Roberts that appears in Epstein's flight blogs and I believe there is a John Roberts there, but there's like no evidence that it's that John Roberts. And would also on New Year's Day tweeted that Mike Pence should be

executed by a firing squad um. And that's when the Trump campaign was like, hey, buddy, we're not We're not on board with Windwood anymore. And so at this point he's on Twitter, he's on parlor, and he's going really really hard. He tells people that they need to start following Ron Watkins. And you know, on January four if he's saying stuff like it's time for our country to unite against the common foe and protect our freedom in future,

the enemy is you know, communist China. Support Donald Trump. He's a genius. He has a military ready. We the people must be ready. So, as you can see, at this point, Lynnwood had gone full pelt Q and on mad. He's on Twitter talking to millions of followers saying that people should be executed, saying that Trump has the military waiting to take over. Even though he lost the election, Lynnwood went from a famous defamation attorney to what can only be described as a raving Q and on lunatic um.

And then on the sixth what he was doing during the Capitol riot. So Mr Wood did in fact called for his supporters to storm and occupy the United States Capital, Georgia Authority said. On the morning of January six, Mr Wood posted to his one point one billion Twitter followers that the time had come to take back our country and to fight for our freedom. And he wrote those words alongside an image stating that it was seventeen seventy

six again during the insurrection. UM. As the mob was storming the Capitol Building, Mr Wood tweeted for his followers that they should follow the advice of Bill White to enter the US Capitol Building, enter both houses, and fight for US and fight for Trump. And he finally gets booted for Twitter on January seven, and he kept going on parlor like as soon as he was on Twitter,

he was on parlor and he was cleaning it. Um the shooting of Actually Babbitt by a Capital security guard was a false flag and that Ashley Babbitt was a crisis actor install alive Just in case you're unaware, Ashley Babbitt was a Q and On follower who entered the Capitol Building when the riot happened, and sadly she was shot dead by a security guard there. Some of the

Q and on's consider her a martyr. Some of them say that she was a paid crisis actor and that she was just there to give the Q and On's a bad name, and that actually she wasn't murdered. It was all a set up. It's all actually quite sad. Bear in mind that someone's child, someone's door is dead. This is not funny, but this is the way the Q and On's going with it. So anyway, after lynn Wood went berserk on Twitter, he was banned from there. He went onto the up Parlor. Parlor is now gone,

it fell apart. Then he moved on to Telegram. As we spoke about in the last episode, that's where Q and on is really now evolving. It's safe to say, as I'm sure you expected, Lynnwood is definitely helping that process along. One of the most bizarre stories to come from Lynnwood's telegram channel is when he went on a tour of the White House. He effectively live tweeted it, but you know, live posted it to Telegram and he was saying things like, wow, I can't see Joe Biden here.

He's clearly not here. As if Joe Biden will just be sat there in the White House doing nothing, waiting for people like Linn Wood to come and see him. But not only that, he also said, get this, he lied and said that he went into the Oval office and actually saw Trump's out there. He said on telegram, Wow, I've just seen Trump in there. He's still there. He's

in power. Now. Whether Lynnwood was putting this out as just an over I am straight up bullshitting to my followers, or whether it is meant to be some kind of satire or story, I don't even know anymore. I don't even know if it actually matters at this point, because the Q and On followers have become so invested in the outlandish evolution of Q and On that I don't

really think they care either way. Now, although lynn Wood has basically lost his career, he's disgraced, he has no credibility anymore in the real world, he is still very much lauded in the Q and On conspiracy world and with all the people that are following him. He's trying to amplify other qu and On voices. He's trying to keep this whole thing going, and you know, he's like, he's just one of the biggest voices right now, and he's giving like, you know, a microphone to these other

people as well. Um, and I think that the specialty is a lawyer, where he's like you know, public advocacy, where you know, he's the one that wants to like take control of the narrative. He's gonna like you know, position himself as like you know, using high visibility to

strike back against the media. Has just really prepared in the take advantage of this moment, and you know, he has the credentials so just like being that guy who fights the media, and you know, the media is who Q and On hates and so he's just like at the skill set and his reputation that's kind of made

for this. He's kind of just alienated everyone almost except for his um, you know, just the q and On community there his new family basically his friends on telegram right right, and like I he apparently doesn't like to talk about it that he posts about it on telegram somewhere.

He's apparently a strange from his family, Like you know, it'll be in the middle of all of these like conspiracy posts about like you know the U N or like oh why is like you know, it's bustful of like potential human rafting by people here, and then it will just be like him pictures of his kids and being like, this is my daughter. She hasn't spoken to be for like a year. It's really sad because he'll be like still post like I love my puppies and my horses, but not as much as I love my kids.

But you know what I love more than my kids. God. So that is the story of Lynnwood. What do you think? Is he a grifter or is he a true believer? Or is he even a victim of the collective psychosis of the Q and On ideology itself. I don't know, but basically Lynnwood has lost his family, He's disgraced his career. He is a joke to serious Republican voters, and yet still he seems to think that what he's doing is the right thing. He thinks Q and On is going

to come back. Everything is going to change and he will be hailed as some kind of hero. Either that or it's a complete grift. I don't know, but he's lost a hell of a lot and gained that very little. That's Lynwood. It's very important to know who he is going forward. Q Clearance is brought to you by I Heart Radio and cou Data Media. I'm Jake Hanrahan. You

can find me online at Jake Underscore Hanrahan. That's h a n A h a N. This episode was produced by myself, with fact checking and additional research by Sarah Hiower. The music is by Sam Black and the sound was mixed by Thomas Griffin. That splicing block