Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee is running for President 2016
Fresh off of a DUI and gun possession arrest last month, software pioneer John McAfee has decided that the presidency of the United States is his next logical step.
After hinting the move to Wired in a piece that was published earlier today, The Hill reports that McAfee has filed the necessary paperwork to enter the 2016 race. In the documents, McAfee also specifies that he is “founding a new party yet to be announced.”
His presidential campaign site, which is now live, doesn’t seem to offer any details on his stances on the issues, but it does have a donate button.
McAfee, who founded the antivirus software company (now owned by Intel) that bears his name in 1987, has had a fairly bizarre past couple years involving murder, bribery and government corruption.
This has been a particularly wild election season already, but even this announcement is a crazy development.
McAfee has led a colorful and highly public life since he sold the last of his shares in McAfee Associates almost 20 years ago.
Just last month, he was arrested in Tennessee on charges of driving under the influence and possession of a handgun under the influence. But it was his detention in Guatemala in late 2012 on suspicion that he’d entered the country illegally that made McAfee’s name widely known outside technology circles.
McAfee crossed into Guatemala to evade investigators in Belize who wanted to question him in connection with the death of his neighbor. He was deported to the U.S. a few weeks later.
McAfee denied any involvement in the slaying, and he was never declared a suspect by Belize authorities — although they did sell off his seized assets in the country.
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McAfee’s blog became a must-read as he posted frequently about his escapades as a fugitive, detailing the many disguises he adopted.
Dean Barrow, Belize’s prime minister then and now, described McAfee at the time as “extremely paranoid, even bonkers.”
McAfee — whose Twitter biography reads simply “Eccentric Millionaire & Still Alive” — listed his current address in his FEC filing as Opelika, Alabama. His case was chronicled on “Dateline NBC” in March.
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