QAnon was on the fringe until this Citigroup executive came along

While he was working at Citi, Jason Gelinas took QAnon mainstream, delivering its theories to a wider audience of soccer mums, white-collar workers and other 'normies'.

In 2018, while doing his job at Citi, Jason Gelinas created a website dedicated to bringing QAnon to a wider audience. David Rowe

William Turton and Joshua Brustein

Oct 14, 2020 – 8.30am

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Like many future Donald Trump voters, Jason Gelinas felt something shift inside him during the presidency of Barack Obama.

Things were going OK for him generally. He had a degree from Fordham University and had held a series of jobs at big financial-services firms, eventually becoming a senior vice-president at Citigroup in the company’s technology department, where he led an AI project and oversaw a team of software developers. He was married with kids and had a comfortable house in a New Jersey suburb. According to those who know him, Gelinas was a pleasant guy who was into normal stuff: Game of Thrones, recreational soccer, and so on.

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