QAnon Shaman Updates

From Michael Daly's 1-7-24 DAILY BEAST article entitled "'Qanon Shaman' Demands the FBI Return the Horns He Wore During Riot":

The “QAnon Shaman” has done his time and now wants the government to return the horned fur headdress that made him the most recognizable figure of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“They’re keeping it like it’s evidence,” Jacob Chansley told The Daily Beast. “The case is over, so there’s no reason for them to continue holding onto it” [...].

The whole world saw [Chansley] sitting bare-chested in his headdress at the dais where Vice President Mike Pence had been preparing to preside over the peaceful transition of power less than an hour before. Chansley took selfies and wrote a note to Pence.

“It’s Only A Matter of Time. Justice Is Coming!”

That message can only be seen as threatening given Chansley’s earlier declaration online: “We shall have no real hope to survive the enemies arrayed against us until we hang the traitors lurking among us.”

He would not be charged with personally engaging in violence, but he departed the Capitol as an icon of an uprising linked to five deaths and assaults on 174 police officers. The pre-sentencing memo filed by his attorney noted that images of him “have become to January 6 what the Swoosh is to Nike” [...].

In the meantime, Chansley has a website hawking $30 T-shirts stenciled with images of what he calls himself now: “America’s Shaman.”

He is, of course, wearing the iconic headdress, complete with horns.

To read the entire article, click HERE.

From Summer Concepcion's 11-13-23 NBC News article entitled "'QAnon Shaman' Who Stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 Files Paperwork to Run for Congress":

Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man who gained notoriety as the “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Libertarian candidate in the battleground state’s 8th Congressional District.

Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., announced last month that she won’t seek re-election.

Chansley stood out among the Capitol rioters by appearing shirtless with face paint, wearing a furry headdress with horns and carrying a U.S. flag affixed to a spear and a bullhorn.

Chansley pleaded guilty to a single count of felony obstruction of an official proceeding [...].

At a hearing, his original lawyer, Albert Watkins, said Chansley no longer wanted to be known as the “QAnon Shaman.” At his sentencing hearing, Chansley expressed remorse for his actions, which he called “indefensible.”

To read the entire article, click HERE.