Lewis and Clark County's elected justice of the peace acknowledged that he sent an "inappropriate" email chastising a Washington Post reporter for coverage that was critical of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon.

"Whether Q is real or otherwise, there is a movement started by the hypothesis of a Q and somebody behind the scenes standing up for the average American citizen," Judge Michael Swingley wrote in an email Wednesday from his official government account to reporter Avi Selk. "Patriots are uniting against people just like you. Your world of fake news and liberal agendas that give away our country to foreigners and protect the Clintons and Obamas is coming to an end. Wait for it……….. you pathetic, snobby ass."

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