When Liz Crokin’s name appeared in national news stories due to her surprising connection to a controversy involving Roseanne Barr last week, it felt like an ironic twist of fate. Crokin, a Winnetka native, dished tabloid-style gossip about the lives of Hollywood stars for Chicago print media for almost a decade. But now it’s the former Tribune and Sun-Times columnist’s name popping up in other journalists’ lurid news stories.
Roseanne was Right, President Trump is on Track to Increase Human Trafficking Arrests 500% in 2018 Over 2016! #QAnonhttps://t.co/OLz2nLZKUJ
— LIZ ThesePeopleRSick (@LizCrokin) April 2, 2018
“QAnon” refers to a user on the anonymous message board 4chan who claims to be a high-ranking government employee with inside knowledge of the White House. This self-described official has posted what the user says is leaked inside intel about how Trump is planning mass arrests of top Democrats—including the Clintons—for their alleged involvement in a satanic child-sex-trafficking ring. It’s essentially a virulent strain of Pizzagate, the conspiracy theory claiming a D.C. pizza parlor was part of a child sex-trafficking operation led by Hillary Clinton. A North Carolina man named Edgar Welch was so convinced by this baseless theory in December 2016 that he drove to the capital and commandeered the restaurant with a military-style assault rifle—even firing off a shot while inside.
News of celebrity breakups became Crokin’s journalistic calling card. “I don’t mean to be, but I seem to be the breakup queen,” she told Michigan Avenue magazine in 2009, citing her big scoops on the Jessica Simpson-Tony Romo and the Hilary Duff-Joel Madden decouplings as evidence.
The sickness began affecting her to the point that she struggled to work and lost her main job at American Media Inc.—the publisher of the Star and National Enquirer—in 2013. Crokin is described as having been laid off during a wave of downsizing in an article by the Associated Press about accusations of sexual harassment against Dylan Howard—the chief content officer of American Media. Crokin was one of several former employees who alleged harassment against Howard last year.
Crokin has said her brain “started healing itself” in 2015, and by 2016 she was writing again—this time for the far-right conservative magazine and website Townhall—particularly about the issue of child sex trafficking. Reading the leaked Democratic National Committee e-mails “really woke me up to how real of a problem this is,” she said in an interview with the YouTube show Through the Black.
To Crokin and others disciples of the “Storm conspiracy,” Trump is a hero on the verge of shutting down the satanic Democratic child-abusing cult. He just needs a little more time to get the public ready for it.
