A QAnon influencer who accuses Democratic Party politicians of being pedophiles has been identified in two reports as a registered child sex offender. David Todeschini, 70, goes by the name of “David Trent” online where his thousands of fans listen to him opine on any number of conspiracy theories related to the broader QAnon movement.
“Why this country hasn’t risen up and hung these bastards by now is beyond me,” Todeschini said in a September video complaining about federal vaccine mandates. “These treasonous rat bastards need to be taken out of Washington, D.C. I say get all the children out and nuke it.”
According to RightWingWatch, a project of People for the American Way, the title of that video describes President Joe Biden as a “Cho-mo,” which, the outlet says, is “prison slang for a pedophile.” RightWingWatch first reported that David Todeschini was the real name behind the pseudonym David Trent.
According to VICE News, Todeschini also subscribes to the so-called “frazzledrip” conspiracy theory, a particularly violent piece of political fan-fiction assumed to be real by adherents which alleges that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been captured on video sexually abusing and torturing a young girl with a trusted longtime aide before using the child’s blood in a ritualistic fashion.
“This is proven beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty with physical, undeniable, irrefutable evidence,” he told the outlet, failing to provide any such evidence or proof.
There is, however, a public record of one David Todeschini’s own child abuse.
On May 19, 1999, the QAnon adherent and influencer was convicted of one count each of sexual abuse in the first degree and sodomy in the second degree for coercing an 8-year-old boy into sexual activity in 1996. He was given a sentence of 28 months to seven years in state prison. The convicted child molester ultimately served a five-year sentence. Todeschini had no known prior relationship with his victim.
According to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, the conspiracy theorist is considered a Level 3 threat, which is defined as a “high risk of repeat offense and a threat to public safety.”
He is also considered to a be a “Sexually Violent Offender” in New York.
