Shemane Nugent says QAnon influencer has met with Trump

Written by Alex Kaplan

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Podcast host Shemane Nugent said during an interview with QAnon influencer Juan O. Savin that she knew “you’ve been with” former President Donald Trump previously.

Savin, whose real name is Wayne Willott, is a QAnon influencer who has warned of “civil war” if people “move[d] past” false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and is part of a coalition to recruit and elect secretary of state candidates around the country in order to control election administration as part of an effort to push false voter fraud claims.

During the interview posted on July 12, Nugent — a fellow QAnon supporter and wife of former National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent — discussed meeting Trump previously, including in a “private roundtable discussion,” and said to Savin, “We went to the White House before, I know you’ve been with him, too.” Savin has previously claimed he’s been to Mar-A-Lago, where he said he’s been around Trump, and has also previously claimed he was in a “meeting … with someone that’s very close to the president [Trump] on a weekly basis.”

Shemane Nugent says QAnon influencer has met with Trump

QAnon influencer Juan O Savin

From the July 12, 2022, edition of the Shemane show

SHEMANE NUGENT (HOST): So what — what can we do? What are our marching orders? What are the tools that we need to get through these difficult times? Because we were with President Trump about a month ago, Ted played the national anthem at his rally in Austin, and we had an opportunity to speak to him. And I got to tell you, it was funny. We were sitting around this — we had a private roundtable discussion with President Trump, and there were about ten other people there. And each person got a chance to go around. They went around the table and each person had a chance to say something to President Trump. And we — we went to the White House before, I know you’ve been with him, too. We had dinner with him and Kid Rock and Sarah Palin at the White House when he was president.

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And so, anyways, I’m asking you the difficult questions, but what I wanted to tell you is that President Trump said — I quoted Ephesians. I said, “This is spiritual warfare. We know what's going on. We know we need to put on the full armor of God. What can we do?” I'm asking you that, too. And he said, “You know, I think this had to happen so people could wake up.” And then he also said, Juan, “It's going to get worse.”

JUAN O. SAVIN: Yes, it’s going to get a lot worse. This is a near-death experience for America. You have to see what these people would do if they were in control permanently here in the country.