(TJVNEWS.COM) The lawyer for ‘QAnon shaman’ Jacob Chansley, who stormed the Capitol building during last week’s riot wearing horns, wants Donald Trump to pardon him because he felt he was ‘answering the call of our President.’
Chansley was a follower of the bizarre QANON message board. TJV previously reported that the QANON movement is based on a series of cryptic messages allegedly posted by insiders from the FBI, CIA, and others inside the government. The premise is basically the government is run by a group of ” satanic pedophiles” and Trump has been busy arresting hundreds of government officials.
QANON has promised their followers numerous times Hillary Clinton was about to be arrested, Trump was going to declare martial law and arrest thousands and remain president, and other claims which never came close to actually happening
Channsley and the others who stormed the capitol were indeed Trump supporters, but they were not acting on Trump’s orders, which almost the entire Democratic party has been claiming, during the dramatic impeachment hearings seen on Wednesday. They believed they were receiving orders from Trump via QANON insiders.
“It would seem more logical to investigate QANON if the Democrats were so concerned with their safety and future acts of political violence, instead they wasted hours kicking around, a lame duck, politically impotent president, with the ridiculous impeachment charade. Makes you wonder, who is running QANON”, a reader commented on TJV’s social media. recently.
Albert Watkins spoke on Cuomo Prime Time Thursday evening defending his client Chansley, 33, a well-known supporter of the QAnon conspiracy in Arizona who was arrested Saturday for his role in the violet Capitol siege on January 6.
This week Chansley, who also goes by Jake Angeli, was indicted by a federal grand jury on six counts including violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol.
‘Trump needs to stand up and own these people. He owes them – he has an obligation to them,’ Watkins said to host Chris Cuomo.
‘And do what?’ Cuomo asked.
‘Give a pardon, give a pardon,’ Watkins replied.
Watkins explained that Chansley is considered a ‘genuine shaman,’ noting ‘He has been a long-standing professor of that faith’ and ‘couldn’t be a more gentle, soft spoken human being.’
‘He just walked in with the whole crowd that was walking in on the peaceful side of things,’ he said.
He noted that Chansley did not participate in any of the violent attacks that led to five deaths and injuries against police officers.
‘My client did not shroud his face in secrecy. He wasn’t wearing a bulletproof vest. My client was not armed. He didn’t have zip ties. My client fought – was in the military, served honorably. No criminal background whatsoever. And he, like a lot of other disenfranchised people in our country felt very, very, very solidly in sync with President Trump,’ Watkins said.
Prosecutors say Chansley was one of the first rioters in the building and he disobeyed a Capitol police officer’s order to leave. Instead he went to the Senate floor and sat in Vice President Mike Pence’s seat minutes after he had been evacuated.
Chansley then wrote Pence a note saying: It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming,’ according to a detention motion filed Thursday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Prosecutors say Chansley is unemployed, a regular user of psychedelic drugs including mushrooms and peyote and has mental health issues.
Here is the clip from CNN
Capitol riot suspect Jacob Chansley, known as the “Qanon shaman,” is asking for a pardon from President Trump, saying he believed Trump had invited him to enter the Capitol, says his attorney.
My client “felt he was answering the call of our President,” says Albert Watkins. pic.twitter.com/iccAp5sRDO
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) January 15, 2021
