Who is Alfie Oakes? He’s a Florida farmer-slash-grocery store owner-slash MAGA Trump supporter who’s getting national attention − again.

Two days after Election Day 2024, federal and state law enforcement vehicles surrounded Oakes’ home in North Naples, Florida, and his business in Immokalee, Florida. Part grocery, part bakery, part butcher shop, part bar, Oakes’ $30 million Seed to Table is the clubhouse for a rising group of Make America Great Again Republicans as well as a magnet for area foodies attracted by organic broccoli and craft beer.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, residents of Lee County and Collier County, Florida, were familiar with the political firebrand that is Alfie Oakes. And at the time, he made headlines as an anti-vaxxer, for comments he made about George Floyd and Black Lives Matter and for filing an anti-mask lawsuit in his hometown. Oakes also arranged bus trips to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, for the Insurrection − or what he called “the most peaceful beautiful demonstration from well over one million people that I’ve ever witnessed,” according to the Naples Daily News, a USA TODAY Network newspaper.

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