“Q is clearly someone closely connected to the White House”
No, he’s not. Seriously, the “proofs” they have of that are holes.
For example, someone who is close to the White House could take an actual photo aboard Air Force One, and wouldn’t have to photoshop a photo they stole from an old magazine article and pass it off as their own. That right there destroys the whole idea that Q is actually someone with any real access.
He’s a 4chan nerd who was trolling people. Just another in a long line of “Anon”s claiming to have insider information, who were actually just making stuff up for fun. He probably never thought it would get this big, and when it did, and all of his predictions failed spectacularly, he disappeared.
Then, after a few months, someone starting posting as “Q” on 8chan, but there is no actual evidence that this was the original “Q” from 4chan, and there is quite a bit of evidence that the 8chan “Q” was actually a different group of people who decided to take up the name so as to have an instant platform, since the original “Q” had abandoned it.
It was all for the LULZ.