A man who calls himself the ‘QAnon Shaman’ and stormed the US capital on January 6 while wearing a horn with a headdress with fur, face paint and no shirt, is prepared to testify in former President Trump’s upcoming indictment, his lawyer said this week.
Jacob Anthony Chansley later regretted that he had been ‘cheated’ by the former president after he did not receive a pardon after the attack on the Capitol, lawyer Albert Watkins told KSDK-TV in St. Petersburg last week. Louis said.
Watkins added Chansley also lamented that he was “in a position to allow the tampering to allow him to make decisions he should not have made.”
The lawyer told the Associated Press that he had not yet spoken to any lawmakers about the offer and senators did not vote whether witnesses would be allowed during the trial, which did not fail during a vote during Trump’s first indictment.
FILE – On this Wednesday, January 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jacob Chansley, centrally wearing fur and horn hat, are confronted by Capitol police officers outside the Senate Hall inside the Capitol in Washington. A video showed Chansley leading others in a prayer inside the Senate. (AP Photo / Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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At that point, however, Republicans had the majority, which now passed to the Democrats.
Watkins said it was important for senators to hear the voice of someone believed to have been incited by Trump. He described Chansley as “terribly beaten” by Trump, but said he felt “betrayed” when he did not receive forgiveness.
Trump has been charged by the House with “incitement to insurrection” after the riots and the Senate hearing is expected in the week of February 8.
This will be the first indictment of a former US president.
While Democrats are considering using witnesses in the trial, Democratic House indictments are likely to use at least some of the plethora of social media videos filmed in many cases by the rioters themselves.
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Chansley will be arrested in Washington on Friday on charges of civil disorder, obstruction of an official process, disorderly conduct in a restricted building and demonstration in a Capitol building, among others.
Watkins argued last week that his client was virtually “invited” to the Capitol by Trump and conceded to take extreme action to reverse the election results.
“Let’s roll the band,” he said. “Let’s roll the months of lies, and annoyances and misrepresentations and horrific insinuations and hyperbolic speech by annoying, annoying, motivating our president.
In his successful detention to trial, prosecutors said Chansley entered the Capitol, with an American flag on a wooden pole, covered with a spear, ignored an officer’s orders to leave, entered the Senate Hall and ‘ wrote a threatening letter to the then vice-chancellor. President Mike Pence.
Chansley, who has long been a contender at Trump rallies, told investigators he was coming to the Capitol on January 6 “at the request of the president that all ‘patriots’ should come to DC,” according to court records.
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He was detained in his home state of Arizona until he decided in Washington, DC.
Fox News’ Vandana Rambaran and the Associated Press contributed to this report.