Fugitive QAnon Fan Runs Up $10,000 Diner Tab—and Bails

QAnon promoter Richard Potcner urged National Guard soldiers in the Capitol to order on his tab at a local diner, then crowdsourced to pay the bill. But he stopped paying.

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