GOP-endorsed judicial candidate hyped Pizzagate and other conspiracy theories

A GOP-endorsed candidate for district judge has promoted numerous fringe conspiracy theories, including the Pizzagate child sex trafficking hoax.

Nathan Hansen, a practicing lawyer and longtime fixture on Minnesota’s conservative social media scene, has also called an attempted 2009 airline bombing a “false flag attack”; claimed “Satanic people run our government”; said that “all property taxes are illegal under the Minnesota State Constitution”; called for the abolition of the Federal Reserve and the Central Intelligence Agency; and once said he found himself “consistently agreeing” with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Hansen deleted roughly 100,000 of his Twitter posts prior to announcing his candidacy, according to social media analytics service Social Blade. But a number of those posts have been preserved on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and other posts on Facebook and YouTube remain public.

Hansen, who declined to comment for this story, is running for a judicial seat in District 10, which includes Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties. His opponent is incumbent judge Helen Brosnahan, who was appointed by Gov. Tim Walz two years ago.




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