My mom mentioned an interesting point to me today, she used to work for NSA INSCOM, for most of her adult life. She said that when Obama fired a bunch of generals and charged some of them with crimes it made a lot of people double take in the military community. That could have been the catalyst for the Q operation, long before Trump was in office.

Q has posted over 4000 times and claims to be military intelligence and NSA and has not been shut down by such agencies. 0 chance Q is fake.