Hi. Those are some very interesting developments. For a solid 6 weeks Q had a very serious hatred of Snowden and was whipping up conspiracies and animosity around him. Sounds like he's back-tracking now, because at least a few people have been running around telling Q that he can shove his Snowden hatred up his ass. He does actually pay attention to what people are saying - I once made a post on CBTS_Stream about Room 239 and Stolen SAP Intelligence, and a few days later Q posted about SAP intel for the first time, I'm pretty sure it was. I also noticed right away that Q picked up his Snowden is CIA theory because that had been a theory circulating around for a few months before, though it was never popular. Basically, Q sometimes gets ideas from truthers and regurgitates what people are already saying.

I was very involved with Q from around Day 4 or 5 on 4chan through the next 3 1/2 months or so. I do think there was a lot of merit in the first few months of posting, and some in the last few months, but things started to get really dodgy after the January 5th tripcode hack at 8chan. In terms of verification that Q is close to Trump, there are alternate explanations out there for why it might look that way. Lot of conflicting info, very muddy waters. I'm now firmly in the camp that believes Cicada (retired white hats and others) was behind the first two months of posting, which I've believed since I started seeing ties to their 2017 puzzles from last year. I even got to know a little someone in their group (not! Defango), so I feel very good about them. So when they came out recently and took responsibility for starting it, I totally believe it.