A MAGA conspiracy theorist who says his news outlet is in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new Pentagon press corps once had his Naval security clearance suspended.

Jack Posobiec, a senior editor at the conservative news site Human Events and Turning Point USA host, rose to notoriety for pushing the debunked “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, which alleged that Hillary Clinton and other leading Democrats were running a pedophile ring.

Posobiec has announced that Human Events has been selected for the Pentagon press corps after legacy outlets refused to sign new, restrictive rules, and staged a mass walkout.

The 40-year-old political activist, a Catholic descendant of Polish immigrants who has promoted white supremacist and antisemitic talking points, is a major cheerleader for President Donald Trump and is close to Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon.

But Pennsylvania-born Posobiec, a former Navy Reserve intelligence officer, has a somewhat checkered history with the U.S. military.

Despite having won awards for his time in the Naval Reserve, in February 2017 he had his security clearance suspended.

At the time, Posobiec told the Daily Beast his clearance had been temporarily paused during a transfer between units, after his former commanding officer raised concerns about his Twitter activity.

He told NBC News he “never conducted any of my political activities while in uniform or on government time. I never once mishandled classified information.”

Posobiec did not say whether his clearance was later restored, but he resigned in March 2017 to pursue a media career.

Hegseth, 45, imposed the new Pentagon press rules this month, which critics say could criminalize routine national-security reporting by barring journalists from obtaining even unclassified information without prior authorization.