Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman, slammed the indictment of Donald Trump by a federal grand jury on Tuesday.
Chansley told Newsweek that Trump had “no role what-so-ever,” in the riot and his indictment proves federal agencies are corrupt.
“I feel the notion of a Trump indictment related to the events of January 6th is further evidence that federal agencies have been corrupt and weaponized for decades by the D.C. Uniparty,” Chansley said. “Nothing surprises me anymore. My sympathies go out to Trump for everything he has endured for the American people due to the corruption in D.C.”
Trump was indicted on Tuesday by a grand jury convened by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.
Trump was indicted on four charges: Conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.
The indictment says Trump “was determined to remain in power” despite losing the election. The former president and his co-conspirators attempted to use the power of the Justice Department to conduct “sham election crime investigations,” and try to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the election, according to the indictment.
“After it became public on the afternoon of January 6 that the vice president would not fraudulently alter the election results, a large and angry crowd — including many individuals whom the defendant had deceived into believing the vice president could and might change the election results — violently attacked the Capitol and halted the proceeding,” the indictment says.
Chansley was one of the most recognizable figures among the mob of Trump supporters on Jan. 6 with his horned fur hat, bare chest and face paint. He was sentenced to 41 months prison in November 2021 after he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of obstruction of an official proceeding.
He was transferred from federal prison to a halfway house in Arizona in May, several months before he was initially set to be released.
