The first time he was asked if he was part of the Q team taking down Satanic pedophiles, he slipped in a “And we are, actually”, but he did it with enough plausible deniability that anyone could believe whatever they personally needed to believe. Which was consistent with the Q proofs. They always had that little bit of plausible deniability that the people who weren’t open to what Q was disclosing could continue to keep their fingers in their ears because “the choice to know will be yours”.