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Tess Owen @ Vice News: Oh Great, the QAnon Shaman Is Running for Office Now.

The so-called “QAnon Shaman” has tossed his horned hat into the ring, and is preparing to run for Congress.

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Right-wing media’s talking points about Trump’s indictment for fake electors plot have little basis in reality

Here are the facts

WRITTEN BY JACK WINSTANLEY & PAYTON ARMSTRONG

PUBLISHED 08/10/23

In response to Donald Trump’s federal indictment for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, right-wing media have embarked on a smear campaign against the entire investigation, spreading misleading and baseless myths to obscure the nature of the charges and the evidence being presented against the disgraced former president. 

Since the indictment was filed, Trump’s lawyers and right-wing media have offered flailing defenses and pro-Trump spin, as well as falsehoods about the charges.

MYTH: Trump was indicted for believing the election was stolen, which violates his free speech rights.

Right-wing media figures have claimed that Trump was indicted for believing that the election was stolen and suggested that the charges represent a criminalization of free speech rights — baseless claims that the indictment prebuts.

Fox host Greg Gutfeld said the indictment is “criminalizing thoughts and it’s criminalizing speech.” He defended Trump’s actions by arguing that “you have every right to think an election might be rigged or fixed." [Fox News, The Five, 8/1/23]

On Hannity, former Trump adviser Stephen Millercomplained that “free speech,” and the “Constitution itself” are “at stake.” He called the indictment “the legal equivalent of the French guillotine, the reign of terror,” and “a mob mentality to take out Donald Trump.” [Fox News, Hannity, 8/1/23]

Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo suggested that Trump’s crime was “saying that he thought that the election was stolen.” Bartiromo cited Fox legal analyst Jonathan Turley’s claim that the indictment lacks legitimacy, stating, “A similar sentiment talked about this being free speech, so what's the charge? What's the crime? Him saying that he thought that the election was stolen: That's the crime.” [Fox Business, Mornings with Maria Bartiromo, 8/2/23]

Right-wing influencer Greg Price posted on social media that “Jack Smith's indictment is nothing but a criminalization of political speech.” He added that, “In the 3rd paragraph, he says President Trump ‘had a right like every American to speak publicly about the election and even to claim falsely that he had won.’ But apparently he's indicting him for it anyway.” [Twitter/X, 8/1/23]

Fox News contributor Katie Pavlichcalled the indictment the “criminalization … of disinformation and misinformation.” She also argued that “the left believes that you should go to prison for saying things.” [Fox Business Network, The Bottom Line, 8/1/23]

Fox prime-time host Laura Ingrahamargued that the indictment was a violation of Trump’s right to free speech. Ingraham quoted the indictment to note that “the defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election” and that Trump had the right “even to claim falsely there had been an outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won.” Ingraham then argued, “So they concede that he had the right to have a different opinion. But, what? So they throw that in there to try to protect themselves, Bret, but then they violate what they claim they are still protecting.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/1/23]

FACT: Trump was indicted for his actions following the 2020 election and leading up to January 6, not for spreading lies about voter fraud.

The first pages of the indictment carefully acknowledged Trump’s First Amendment protections, while emphasizing that the charges relate to alleged criminal conduct and actions unrelated to free speech. The second page of the indictment notes that Trump “had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won.” It goes on to explain that Trump was entitled to, and did, “formally challenge the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means, such as by seeking recounts or audits of the popular vote in states or filing lawsuits challenging ballots and procedures,” but it also alleges that Trump also “pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results.”

While Trump’s spoken words and social media posts are used as evidence in the indictment, that evidence is used to support the motive for his actions. As noted by legal experts, “Trump is being prosecuted for his deeds, not his words,” and while Trump had the right to claim the election was stolen, he did not have the right to attempt to throw out the lawful results through a criminal conspiracy.

Trump’s own Attorney General Bill Barr has cast doubt on the claim that the indictment violates Trump’s First Amendment rights. On CBS’s Face the Nation, Barr stated that the indictment doesn’t rely on what Trump said, but on the actions he and his allies took to conspire to overturn the 2020 election results.

MYTH: The indictment will allow Trump to litigate the 2020 election and prove claims of voter fraud.

Some right-wing media figures have claimed that the indictment will provide the opportunity to relitigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election in federal court, which they argue will finally vindicate Trump. Such claims ignore the plethora of failed lawsuits from Trump and his team after the 2020 election.

Fox News prime-time host Jesse Watters celebrated that the indictment is going to open the door to litigate the 2020 election. He claimed that it is “going to give Donald Trump the opportunity to relitigate the 2020 election in federal court. This is what Donald Trump's been dying to do for the last two and half years.” [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, 8/1/23]

War Room host Steve Bannon also celebrated the chance to relitigate voter fraud claims. On his show, Bannon said: “I love this. I’m highly optimistic. We finally – we’ve wanted a chance and a platform to adjudicate the 2020, and their bloodlust to take down Trump, they gave it to us.” [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 8/2/23]

Conservative radio host and Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt claimed, “The former president will be subpoenaing everyone who had anything to do with the unusual circumstances of the 2020 election in order to prove his genuine suspicion of the process.” He added that Trump’s lawyer made it clear that they are “going to explore every corner of the 2020 election with former President Trump empowered to subpoena everyone who can help prove his innocence.” [Twitter/X, 8/2/23]

On Infowars, “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley suggested the indictment will allow Trump to litigate the election. Chansley told Alex Jones: “Now all this evidence that the other courts and other states refused to hear can now be subpoenaed. It can now be made public evidence, so I kind of wonder a little bit. How much this is actually going to work out the way that the shadow government deep state wants it to.” [Infowars, The Alex Jones Show, 8/4/23]

FACT: Trump’s claims of voter fraud were repeatedly litigated in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election, and evidence for widespread voter fraud was never found.

In reality, Trump’s claims of voter fraud were litigated dozens of times after the 2020 election – and proof for the claims was never found. Trump and his allies filed at least 62 lawsuits, many of which were dismissed due to the weak merits of the voter fraud allegations and for lack of standing. Additionally, many of Trump’s lawyers reneged on the sweeping public allegations once they found themselves in a court of law under oath, and ultimately none of allegations from Trump and his team were even remotely proven. Still, conservative media are largely ignoring the plethora of failed lawsuits and claiming the latest indictment will be their chance to litigate the election.

Several Republican officials, including members of Trump’s own cabinet, have debunked his assertion that there was widespread fraud or inaccuracies during the 2020 election. Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr stated in a 2022 interview with The Associated Press that “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.” Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also found no evidence of fraud during the 2020 election, and a prominent statehouse Republican in Pennsylvania conceded that he had no evidence to support his claims of fraud.

MYTH: In order to convict Trump, special counsel Jack Smith has to prove Trump knew he was lying about the 2020 election.

Right-wing media figures are falsely claiming that a conviction of Trump will hinge on whether prosecutors can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump knew he was lying about the 2020 election. Legal experts have disputed this claim, emphasizing that the charges are related to Trump’s actions. 

On a right-wing podcast,Trump lawyer Alina Habba asserted that in order to convict him, prosecutors have to prove that Trump knew he was lying about the 2020 election. Habba told right-wing influencer and serial plagiarist Benny Johnson: “We all know he still believes that 2020 was not a fair election. … I think that that, evidentiary-wise, is going to be very problematic. They have to get into his frame of mind and prove that he actually believed it to be false and was peddling a false statement.” [YouTube, The Benny Johnson Show, 8/4/23]

Fox News host Howard Kurtz published an article on the network’s website titled “Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment turns on whether he knowingly lied about the 2020 outcome.” The article argued that, “In short, if the Trump team can persuade a jury that he truly believed the election was hijacked, then he had every right to speak out and challenge the results.” [FoxNews.com, 8/3/23]

On a podcast for theopinion pages of The Wall Street Journal, editorial board member and podcast host Kim Strassel said it’s a “weakness” of the case that the prosecution has to prove Trump knew he was lying about the election. Strassel explained: “The problem with this is that you have to essentially know what Donald Trump's state of mind is. You have to claim that he knew that this was false and he did it anyway. And yeah, I think it's just difficult to make that argument, because what we don't have in this indictment is any evidence to the fact that he knew that what he was saying was untrue. It might've been wild, it might've been crazy. Let's all be clear, his behavior was deceitful and destructive, but that doesn't mean he didn't necessarily believe it. … That to me is the singular weakness of this case.” [The Wall Street Journal, Potomac Watch, 8/2/23]

Senior editorial staff at National Reviewwrote that the case requires prosecutors to “prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump hadn’t actually convinced himself that the election was stolen from him.” The article added, “Good luck with that” because “hyperbole and even worse are protected political speech.” [National Review, 8/1/23]

On Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt claimed that Trump's prosecutors “have to prove that he actually believed that he lost, because you’re allowed to question an election.” Co-host Brian Kilmeade agreed, adding, “You can’t get inside his head!” [Mediaite, 8/2/23]

FACT: Trump was indicted for his actions and a conviction will hinge on demonstrating that he “pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results.”

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Legal experts have noted that evidence will lay out Trump’s allegedly unlawful actions and to secure a conviction, the government “does not need to prove motive.” The indictment brought against Trump notes that he “had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud,” and that he could challenge the election through “lawful and appropriate means.” However, the indictment notes that Trump “pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results.” Voting rights lawyer Marc Elias reportedly noted that for a criminal trial, the government “does not need to prove motive” and that the jury will actually receive an instruction stating that the government does not need to establish a motive for the defendant's alleged crimes.

MYTH: Hawaii’s 1960 presidential election established a precedent for Trump selecting an alternate slate of electors.

Right-wing media have resurrected a bogus talking point to justify Trump’s scheme, comparing Trump’s fake electors plot to the slate of Democratic electors during Hawaii’s narrow recount in the 1960 presidential election between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

Fox host Jesse Wattersconcluded that “it’s fine” for Trump to have attempted to select an alternate slate of electors because “they did it in Hawaii in 1960.” Watters was responding to guest Harold Ford Jr.’s assertion that “no president had done that before.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/3/23]

Breitbart senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak posted that “Kennedy used alternate electors in Hawaii in 1960. Trump only did what Democrats have done before.” He concluded that “all of these prosecutions are abuses of the justice system that will have long-term consequences for the country.” [Twitter/X, 7/18/23]

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirkclaimed on his show that “alternate electors had legal precedent of being selected and chosen in the Kennedy/Nixon 1960 election.” He continued: “So they were trying to overthrow the government by sending in alternate electors? How does that work exactly? The Vice President could have sent it back to the states and the judge in 1960, who selected the alternate electors in the Hawaii controversy of Kennedy and Nixon, said explicitly if you had not have sent those electors it could not have been chosen. The judge said that in 1960. The 1960 election. If you had not have sent them, we would not have been able to select them.” [Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 8/2/23]

Breitbart stated that JFK set a precedent for appointing alternate electors in 1960. The article claimed that “Democrats themselves used this strategy in the 1960 election, a close race between Vice President Richard Nixon (R) and Sen. John Kennedy (D-MA).” [Breitbart, 7/18/23]

Newsmax’s Greg Kelly played and agreed with a clip of Trump attorney John Lauro arguing that the Hawaii case set a precedent and asserted, “President Trump not only had the right to raise these questions, but he had a duty.” Kelly added that Lauro “is totally right about Hawaii in 1960, a very close election. They didn't know who won. So they sent two slates of electors to Washington, D.C. It has happened before, and you're allowed to talk about this stuff. This is still America and I am allowed to point out that I've got my own concerns about the fairness of the 2020 election.” [Newsmax, Greg Kelly Reports, 8/2/23]

The Gateway Pundit cited the Hawaii case to say there is “Legal Precedent” behind the “Alternate Electors” Trump appointed in 2020. The article claimed that “legal precedent shows not only did the alternate electors not violate law, they actually took proper Constitutional action in submitting their certificates amidst a contested election, according to the Judge’s ruling in the 1960 Hawaii election dispute between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.” [The Gateway Pundit, 7/26/23]

FACT: Hawaii’s duplicate electoral votes were the result of a closely contested election.

During the 1960 election, Hawaii’s recount and alternate electors were part of a court order as the state’s election was decided on a less than 1% margin. In contrast, several of the audits and recounts that Trump and his legal team pursued in 2020 were in states where Trump lost by over 10,000, and even in excess of 100,000, votes.

The recount ultimately switched Hawaii in favor of Kennedy and then-Vice President Nixon accepted the result and certified the votes for Kennedy. There was no effort by Nixon, Kennedy, or any third parties to cast doubt on the process by which the original vote, the recount, or the certification had happened, unlike Trump’s efforts.

MYTH: Trump was merely soliciting “good-faith” legal advice from John Eastman and other apparent co-conspirators referenced in the indictment.

Trump lawyer John Lauro has asserted that the former president was soliciting various legal opinions and acting under the advice of counsel — neither of which absolves Trump from culpability. Meanwhile, many of the attorneys Trump relied on in his effort to overturn the election results are facing civil penalties and disbarment for their role in promoting the unconstitutional scheme and for publically lying about election officials and equipment companies. Claremont Institute senior fellow John Eastman is seemingly described in the indictment as Trump's co-conspirator, responsible for devising the plan to halt the vice president's certification of the election results on January 6.

On Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle, Eastman co-counsel Harvey Silverglateclaimed that “Eastman’s advice was perfectly within the realm of good-faith legal advice.” He added that Eastman’s advice was “cutting edge” and “creative,” and doubled down by stating that “Eastman's advice was perfectly within the realm of good-faith legal advice. I don't have any doubt about it.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/2/23]

Earlier in the program, Ingraham stated that “Eastman made an argument that I wouldn't have made — but one I disagreed with at the time and disagree with now — but it's not a criminal act to have a novel legal theory about something. Even if it's about something like the electors and the Constitution.” She went on to erroneously evoke attorney-client privilege, adding that “advice given from an attorney used to be sacrosanct and it usually falls under the attorney-client privilege. But this is just another norm that the left will sacrifice on the altar of getting Trump.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/2/23]

The day before on The Ingraham Angle, Fox-generated presidential candidateVivek Ramaswamy painted the co-conspirators as simply “lawyers who were giving good-faith legal advice to Trump,” adding that “the job of the lawyer is to actually provide legal advice. Trump was seeking legal advice.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, 8/1/23]

Former Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz claimed that Trump’s impending trial “is a speech case, it’s also a case about right to counsel because they’re going after five of his lawyers, the unindicted co-conspirators, for advice that they gave.” He claimed that the indictment would have a chilling effect on people retaining lawyers, saying, “I’m afraid to say that this indictment may have the effect of encouraging people to take to the streets to protest elections because they’re told that if they go to the courts or go to Congress they will be indicted.” [OAN, One America News, 8/5/23]

FACT: A lawyer advising their client to break the law does not make that act legal, and there is evidence that other attorneys told Trump his scheme was illegal.

Several former White House lawyers who served under Trump testified to the House select committee that they had expressed concerns about the scheme's efficacy. Notably, former White House counsels Pat Cipollone and Eric Herschman testified that they were worried about Eastman's plan and were shut out of official discussions because of it. From the House select committee’s final report:

Cipollone also testified that he was “sure [he] conveyed” his views. Indeed, other testimony from Cipollone indicates that Trump knew of Cipollone’s view and suggests that Trump purposely excluded Cipollone from the meeting with Pence and Pence’s General Counsel on January 4th.

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Likewise, Eric Herschmann, another White House lawyer, expressed the same understanding that Dr. Eastman’s plan “obviously made no sense” and “had no practical ability to work.”

If a lawyer advises their client to break the law, that advice does not make the act legal. Legal experts have pointed out that there are judicial avenues for candidates to pursue if they feel an election result was inaccurate, but Trump is accused of scheming to operate outside those legal processes. The American Bar Association, the administrative body that licenses lawyers to practice in the U.S., also maintains that lawyers are “personally answerable to the entire criminal law,” and the indictment alleges that Trump privately acknowledged that Sidney Powell — one of the lawyers who is reportedly one of the unindicted co-conspirators — sounded “crazy.”

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the man who attained national notoriety as the face of the January 6 Capitol riot has emerged from prison with his conspiratorial views “reinforced. ...If anything, they're stronger than they were."

The QAnon Shaman, whose real name is Jacob Chansley but who now wants to be known as Jake Angeli, walked out of an Arizona halfway house Thursday after being sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the incitement. His image as he strutted through the Capitol bare-chested, his face smeared with red, white and blue paint and his head and shoulders draped in a fur, bison-horned headdress, became world famous.

Hours after his release, he told Raw Story in an exclusive interview that he continues to love and support Donald Trump – and he isn't ruling out a political career of his own.

Angeli, 35, pleaded guilty on November 17, 2021, to felony obstruction of an official proceeding. He served 29 months of his sentence.

He spoke one-on-one with Raw Story via Zoom – though he was told by his lawyer not to respond to questions about the events of January 6.

His release occurred just hours before Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes received an 18-year sentence from U.S. Judge Amit Mehta for seditious conspiracy in connection with the attack on the Capitol. At his sentencing, Rhodes continued to claim to the judge that he was a “political prisoner.”

In the Raw Story interview, Angeli was asked if he believed he was the same – or if prison had mellowed his views.

"That's an interesting question," Angeli said. "Let me put it this way: My belief that the government and the media are corrupt has only been reinforced."

He added: "It just reinforced them. If anything, they're stronger than they were."

So, did Angeli, who sat in former Vice President Mike Pence's Senate chair and left him a threatening note, but who was not charged with acts of violence, feel that he fell into a different category than the Oath Keepers? Or did he consider them brothers-in-arms?

"I feel compassion and sympathy for them because I try to remain as objective as possible in every instance and I try to see things from everybody's perspective," he said. "I can see why they consider themselves whatever it is. I understand, that doesn't mean I agree. But I also understand positions on the left that I don't agree with."

Angeli said he continues to back Trump.

"I love Donald Trump," he said. "I respect that man and he has my support. But that doesn't mean that I don't critique his policies or the things that he says. I mean, this is America, you know, we're allowed to have an opinion."

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"I don't even think he's a politician," Angeli added. "I think he's a man who – especially because the media had such a strong and intense campaign against him – had more of a following than if they would have just gotten behind him or just left him alone. And it also illustrated throughhis plight that anybody that isn't uniparty Washington DC establishment is going to be vilified and destroyed by the system that profits from our tax dollars and proxy foreign wars."

But asked if he'd do it all again, if he thought it was in support of Trump, he declined to answer. "There's too much there and we don't have time to cover it," he said. "It's a loaded question."

Angeli, who lives in Arizona, similarly doubled down in his support for former TV anchor Kari Lake, who has refused to accept her loss last November to Governor Katie Hobbs. Lake’s claims of election fraud have been repeatedly rejected by the courts.

But Angeli said, "Of course" Lake was the real winner in the election. He reiterated her claims that the election was fraudulent.

"Absolutely. Kari Lake has my full support.I love that woman and everything she's done for Arizona," he said.

Angeli apparently plans to stay involved in the political world in some manner. "He is set to speak Sunday at a welcome-home celebration at a Scottsdale church, the Arizona Republic reported. He has a website offering consultations with him for $500, and merchandise that features his iconic image on reusable water bottles, phone cases and apparel," the report said.

Raw Story asked Angeli if he was considering a run for office.

"People have asked me that before," he responded. "The only way that I would ever do that is if there was such a strong demand for it."

So, was that a yes?

"I wouldn't rule it out, but in all honesty, politics is so dang dirty, and Washington is so frickin’ filthy and politics, even here in Arizona, is so corrupt," Angeli said. "You get in there all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and then a man in a suit with a gun in one hand and maybe a briefcase in the other says, 'Look, this is how it works, son.'"

Angeli said he continues to maintain what he terms "the practice of shamanism." Asked if he embraced the title of "Shaman," he said: "I am a shamanic practitioner. Anybody that calls themselves a shaman most likely isn't one. Shaman is actually a Mongolian or Siberian term, and it means 'the one who knows.'"

"But every culture has shamanism at the roots. It's like a medicine man or medicine woman – 'witch doctor' is the derogatory term. It's about getting in touch and in tune with nature, about getting in touch and in tune with the spirit world and God. It's about experiences. It's about ascension. It's about enlightenment. It's about altered states of consciousness to gain a larger broader view of this world and the spirit world simultaneously."

"So, the shaman has their foot in one world, the spirit world, and the other foot in the actual physical world. And they act like a medium between these two worlds for the people that per se don't have the courage to do what the shaman does."

Does that make it a cult?

"Usually, cults are led by some sort of a charismatic and egocentric leader. Shamanism is not a cult at all. It's actually the antithesis of that."

Of his outfit, Angeli said, "I've heard a lot of people call it a costume. It's regalia on the level of priestly robes in the shamanic tradition."

The moniker QAnon Shaman, he said, wasn't some he came up with. Instead it was given to him by the Sandy Hook conspiracist Alex Jones. "Then the media just took off with it and had the audacity to proclaim that I gave myself that title without any proof whatsoever for their claims."

"I neither embrace nor reject the title. ... If a mystical shamanic name is necessary, I use the name 'Yellowstone Wolf.' But there are those who call me America's Shaman and I like that name much more than Qanon Shaman. The reason being the stigma that has been created in the media for that name and the persona they attached to it are in no way who I am or the persona I represent. They created a straw man to use in their propaganda machine, a straw man that they could use to create a shock and awe campaign to further their psychological, social and political agenda."

Angeli declined to discuss his current views on Qanon, saying it was "far too nuanced and complex to comment on right now."

But he did say: "I want to be very clear. I am a libertarian. I'm not a Republican, I'm not a Democrat. That's very important. I'm a Libertarian who believes in the Constitution and I firmly believe in the idea that we are a republic, not a democracy."

He added, "I'm of the belief that we can no longer trust institutions. I don't care what they are. We have to learn to stop trusting the wrong people or the wrong institutions to do the right thing. And we have to start trusting individuals who have proven over the years that they are willing to undergo great personal sacrifice to get the truth to the people."

Given the opportunity to suggest a headline for a story about himself, Angeli suggested: "Jake Angeli. He's not what you think."

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...Jacob Chansley, the so-called "QAnon shaman" who was adorned on Jan. 6 in red, white and blue face paint, carried an American flag on a spear-tipped pole and wore a coyote-fur and horned headdress, pleaded guilty to obstruction. He was sentenced to more than three years in prison. Chansley, who says he is a practitioner of ahimsa, an ancient Indian principle of non-violence toward all living beings, was not accused of assaulting anyone. He was diagnosed in prison with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety.

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A video posted on Tuesday by NBC News' Ryan Reilly shows that some supporters of former President Donald Trump who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 seemed reluctant to believe that he really wanted them to go home.

Roughly three hours after rioters breached the Capitol, Trump put out a video urging his followers to vacate the building, although not without once again inflaming their anger with false claims about the 2020 election being "stolen" from him.

"This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people," Trump said. "We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special."

The video posted by Reilly shows several Trump supporters at the Capitol standing around a phone held by Jacob Chansley, a.k.a., the "QAnon Shaman," and watching the twice-impeached former president's plea to leave.

After watching the video, one Trump supporter immediately expressed skepticism that it was real.

"That looks prerecorded!" she yelled, which prompted Chansley to tell her to "chill the f*ck out."

"When did he record that?!" the woman demanded to know. "I don't see where he recorded that!"

"Calm down and go home, sweetheart," Chanlsey said again.

According to Reilly, the video was recorded by Pam Hemphill, who was sentenced to 60 days in prison for her actions on January 6th.

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:{six months before the 2020 election, Tomi Collins, a Christian right organizer from North Dakota, issued a demand on Twitter for the execution of political enemies in the federal government bureaucracy — citing an array of imagined offenses, including the QAnon hoax that progressive elites are harvesting children’s blood.

“#WeThe people demand incitements [sic] for #SpyGate #PizzaGate #UraniumOne #Adrenochrome,” she wrote. “#DeepState will be exposed and hung for treason. Even if we have to do it ourselves! #CoordinationMatters.”}:

Collins closed her digital call to arms with two more hashtags: #PatriotsMobilize and #1LoudVoice.

Collins serves as executive director of a little-known Christian right outfit called America Restored. Collins has described America Restored, which is organized as a private corporation, as a vehicle for providing strategic consulting and funding to grassroots organizers.

As early as January 2018, less than a year into the Trump administration, Collins was warning followers on Facebook Live about “voter machine fraud,” and foreign election interference, while specifically referencing Dominion Voting Systems. Her description of a plan “to cheat” in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections uncannily anticipated public claims by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell that have prompted a defamation lawsuit against the two attorneys who litigated President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Collins’ role as a key, if overlooked, organizer in the sprawling network of operatives and influencers highlights the role ofChristian nationalism in a movement that remains committed to overturning the 2020 election and vanquishing political opposition. Many of the tenets of a hyper-partisan version of Christianity — entwined with syncretic strains of the QAnon cult — were voiced by the far-right organizers who galvanized defiance of the 2020 election results, including some who attacked the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The mission statement for America Restored, prominently displayed on its website’s landing page, clearly describes the work of the organization led by Collins: “America Restored is ‘We The People’ building a powerful, action-driven infrastructure by organizing and mobilizing existing, effective patriot groups and freedom-loving Americansin all major areas of influence: Education, Family, Faith, Business, Government, Entertainment and Media.”

The mission statement ends with a pledge that inaccurately conflates the organization’s vision of aChristian theocracy with an originalist view of the country: “We The People will see America restored to our founders’ original intent.”

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America Restored’s mission statement explicitly references Seven Mountains dominionism, a far-right Christian ideology that emerged in the mid-1970s. It holds that Christians are called on by God to dominate all realms of civil society, including government.

Katherine Stewart, author of the 2020 book The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, described Seven Mountains dominionism in an email to Raw Story as “the conviction that Christians of a certain hyper-conservative variety are called by God to dominate the main peaks of modern civilization in the United States and, ultimately, the world.”

C. Peter Wagner, one of the ideology’s key proponents, preached that Christians’ responsibility for taking over “whatever molder of culture or subdivision God has placed them in” is a matter of “taking dominion back from Satan,” according to Stewart.

America Restored’s grafting of Seven Mountains dominionism ideology onto a claim of restoring the original republic represents a fundamental misreading of the founders’ intent, Stewart told Raw Story. Stewart cited appeals to reason and deistic or atheistic philosophy as underpinning the thinking of founders such as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin. But even more important than what the founders thought, she said, is the question of what kind of government they established.

“Was it a government that derives its legitimacy from its appeal to Christian revelation, or from its endorsement by Christian ecclesiastical authorities?” Stewart wrote. “The answer to that is no. America’s founders established the world’s first large-scale modern secular republic.”

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Four days after the 2020 election, Collins spoke at a “Stand With Trump Rally” at the North Dakota state capitol in Bismarck. Collins told the crowd she had been contacted by the Trump campaign’s legal team and had attended “meetings with intelligence folks.” Raw Story has not been able to verify these claims independently.

“It’s an amazing day when you get to stand and go from a conspiracy theorist to getting called up by the campaign and attorneys all over the country saying, ‘What about those voting machines? What’s going on in them?’” Collins said. “Hey, let’s go. We’ve got some lawsuits to do.”

Collins went on to describe a plan to “mobilize all 50 states” for rallies that would augment the lawsuits with continuous public pressure to overturn the election results.

“We worked in conjunction with Stop the Steal to get folks at capitols in every single state in the union so we the people could be heard,” Collins later recalled in an interview for a far-right podcast, referencing the coalition led by Ali Alexander.

Felisa Blazek, a New Hampshire-based event planner, described a markedly similar effort.

“I had started the 50-state rallies with — actually ahead of Ali,” Blazek told an interviewer the following summer. “And Ali, having all of his width and breadth of followers — although he’s gone into hiding — God used him in that way, right? God used Cain and God used Abel. He sends out someone who has a much bigger presence on social media than myself. God’s calling for me was to be a base cheerleader, not a main player. So, we’re doing these 50-state rallies at all the capitols every Saturday after the steal of the November election.”

It is unclear whether Collins and Blazek worked together on the effort to mobilize Trump supporters for the rallies, and neither woman responded to repeated requests for interviews. But language used by the two women in interviews to promote their projects and on websites for their respective organizations — including the #1LoudVoice hashtag and Seven Mountains dominionism ideology — bear striking similarities.

The #1LoudVoice hashtag was used in Collins’ social media beginning in May 2020 and has also been prominently displayed on the America Restored website. Meanwhile, a tab on the website ThePatriotParty.rocks, which promotes events organized by Blazek, includes the heading “Our Mission: #1LoudVoice.” The mission statement includes a “call to action,” declaring it is “time to rise up in unity, go into the harvest and take our country back.” The statement continues: “We are assembling to organizing and mobilizing [sic] existing Patriots groups [sic] in all major areas of influence by a national digital communication platform and network influencing all seven (7) spheres of influence: Education, Family, Faith, Business, Government, Entertainment, Media.”

The page includes a link to a separate site listing “coalition members,” including Virginia Freedom Keepers and Latinos for Trump, two of the groups that hosted a MAGA Freedom Rally one block from the US Capitol on Jan. 6; and 1st Amendment Praetorian:{, a security group associated with retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn that provided personal security details for speakers at several rallies and assisted attorney Sidney Powell with research on purported election fraud.

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And although it is unclear what role, if any, Blazek had in organizing theDec. 12, 2020 Jericho March that helped build momentum for Jan. 6, a photo gallery is displayed under the “Events” tab on the ThePatriotParty.rocks website, with images of Flynn, InfoWars host Alex Jones, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.

Using Seven Mountains dominionism language in an interview to promote a two-day Patriot Party event at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort in Arizona two weeks before the 2020 election, Blazek avoided any mention of Christianity while highlighting defiance of mask mandates during the COVID pandemic.

“The seven spheres of influence to me and what I am trying to rally around are organizing people in education, family, faith, business, government, entertainment and media,” she said. “Underneath all of those are health and medical because health and medical touch each one of those. It doesn’t get its own sphere; it’s that magical bridge.”

Blazek had hoped to secure a special appearance by Flynn and his family, whom she described as “the tip of the spear in our movement,” for the gathering, but had to settle for his sister, Barbara Redgate. Other guests included Cowboys for Trump, led by Otero County, NM County Commissioner Couy Griffin.

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Blazek described her radicalization during a joint appearance with Jacobson on a QAnon podcast in June 2020. She said the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon provided an initial jolt, but in early 2020 she said a friend prodded her to look into a conspiracy theory associated with the Sovereign Citizen movement that posits that the British crown holds the originals of American birth certificates. That led her to research the Federal Reserve, she said, prompting a weekslong quest to sources that predate Christ, until, Blazek said, she “worked my way back up to the heart of the issue, and landed with the corruption of the Deep State and how everything’s really been a lie.”}:

While promoting QAnon, Jacobson expressed a more conventional view of religious nationalism in response to a question about the role of religious leaders in the United States’ civic life.

“And we need to get back to being one nation under God, so that He will continue to bless us,” Jacobson said. “Our founding fathers all, whether they were Christian or not, they understood and said that if we don’t have a higher power — in other words, God — that this whole experiment, this United States of America, would fail.”

Blazek, in turn, affirmed a “spiritual, but not religious” outlook, and expressed a QAnon slogan as a central tenet of her faith.

“I really feel like our statement, ‘Where we go one, we go all,’ represents the true God,” she said. “The true and one God — our God.”

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During the Q Con Live! conference, Alan Hostetter, an anti-lockdown activist from southern California, told attendees: “We are at war right now…. Nobody wants violence. We are conditioned from the time we are children to always think violence is a horrible, horrible thing, until we go back and reflect on the Revolutionary War. They picked up guns at some point, and said, ‘Enough!’”}:

Hostetter would later recall in a court filing that when he sat down after his speech, he noticed a man dressed in headgear and horns carrying a sign that read “Q sent me” enter the back of the conference room and stand in the back. It was Jacob Chansley, who would later gain infamy as the “QAnon Shaman” when he stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Hostetter faces charges of his own, including conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, due to his role in the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Griffin was found guilty of entering restricted grounds and sentenced to time served.

:{Griffin told Raw Story that he met Chansley “at the event in Scottsdale,” and that after their arrests the two men were housed in adjacent jail cells.

Reflecting on the awkward commingling of Christianity and QAnon, Griffin told an interviewer last fall: “I spent all my time witnessing to [Chansley] about Christ and about how he needs to put his faith in Jesus because he’s, in my opinion, and by scripture, he’s lost in that account.”}:

Griffin told Raw Story that he first met Blazek at the Patriot Party event in Scottsdale, and that since then he has come to know her “as a great patriot.”

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“Felisa’s a good person; she’s an organizer,” Griffin said. “To make it look like she’s organizing a violent uprising — that’s what the American people are sick of. People are getting tired of the fake news.}:”

Many of Trump’s supporters involved in the effort to overturn the election — both before and after Nov. 3, 2020 — used language of “good” and “evil,” and even “war,” as a call to action.

“It’s not left and right, it’s not red and blue,” said David Sumrall, an organizer with the pro-Trump group Stop Hate during an interview with Redgate to promote her appearance at the October 2020 event in Scottsdale. “It’s good and evil…. It’s just real deal. And I’ve told people this a hundred times if I’ve said it once: Until we put the cross next to the flag again, this is a holy war we can’t win.”

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A week before the election, Stop Hate posted a video of Daniel Goodwyn speaking at a rally in San Francisco on the group’s Instagram page.

“They’re Satanists and pedophiles,” said Goodwyn. “They’re disgusting. }:And we have God on our side. And Trump’s gonna win. The only thing standing in our way is the corruption, because they’re gonna try to steal the election via fraud.”Goodwyn, who shared a social media post promoting the Proud Boysand President Trump’s instruction to “stand back, stand by,” live-streamed his participation in the storming of the Capitol, and faces charges of violent entry and disorderly conduct, among other offenses.

A month after the election, white supremacist Nick Fuentesaddressed Trump supporters at a “Stop the Steal” rally outside the Hyatt Regency hotel in Phoenix.

“This is not simply a political struggle, as I’m sure all of you know,” Fuentes said. “The real struggle is not between Republicans and Democrats. The real struggle is between good and evil. This is a spiritual war. It is a spiritual war between the devil and the children of Jesus Christ.” Video of Fuentes’ speech was amplified on social media by Goodwyn and Stop Hate.

Stewart, the author of the Power Worshipers, said extremism that rejects the idea that people can disagree without dehumanizing their opponents isn’t compatible with democracy.

“A large-scale political movement that believes that any deviation is illegitimate, and that political opponents are literally controlled by demons puts democracy in peril,” she said.

As Jan. 6, 2021 approached, #1LoudVoice became a mobilizing call for Trump supporters to pressure Congress to block the certification of Joe Biden as the next president.

Felisa Blazek hosted a conference call on Dec. 30, 2020. The guest, a social media strategist named Jason Sullivan who had worked with Trump confidant Roger Stone during the 2016 election, urged listeners to “descend on the Capitol.”

During the call, one of the listeners asked Sullivan what group he was with.

“I am not with a group,” Sullivan said. Blazek interjected and Sullivan amended his statement.

“Well, yes,” he said. “Thank you for correcting me. I just joined with #1LoudVoice. Yes, Felisa’s fantastic and I greatly admire her.”

https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/qanon-shaman-withdraws-guilty-plea/

Arizona man who proclaimed himself the “QAnon Shaman” while parading around inside the U.S. Capitol during the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection is attempting to get his plea deal thrown out.

Jacob Chansley, who instantly became one of the most recognizable figures in the riot because of his horned headdress and bare-chested display of body art, has hired two new attorneys and plans on petitioning the court to take the unusual step of letting him withdraw his plea of guilty to the felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding, according to WUSA9.

U.S. District June Royce Lamberth sentenced Chansley in November to 41 months in prison, at the time the longest sentence any defendant had received for participating in the riot.

"Less than two weeks after sentencing, though, attorneys John Pierce and William Shipleynotified the court they would be replacing Watkins to pursue an appeal," according to the WUSA9 report.Pierce is a career civil attorney who briefly represented acquitted Kenosha, WI, shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. Shipley served for more than 20 years as a federal prosecutor. The two represent dozens of Jan. 6 defendants.

Shipley confirmed that they now intend to abandon the appeal and instead will try to convince Lamberth to allow Chansley's case to go back "square one."

“The remedy – IF successful – would be to vacate his conviction, and he would be back in the District Court as if he never pled guilty,” Shipley said.

Their argument is that Chansley received ineffective counsel from veteran Missouri attorney Albert Watkins leading up to the plea deal. But according to the non-profit Innocence Project the standard of proof for that gambit places an "extremely high burden" on defendants and almost never succeeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Angeli

Jake Angeli (born Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley; 1988),^[2] also known as the QAnon Shaman,^[3] Q Shaman,^[2][4] and Yellowstone Wolf,^[5][6] is an American activist and conspiracy theorist who participated in the 2021 United States Capitol attack, and was later convicted for his actions on that day.^[7][8] He has been a supporter of President Donald Trump and a believer and disseminator of the QAnon conspiracy theory.^[1][9][10]

Angeli attended demonstrations in the Phoenix area from around 2019.^[11] At rallies, he promoted conspiracy theories, supporting Trump, supporting the environment, and has been a counter protestor at Black Lives Matter (BLM) events.

After being photographed taking part in the storming of the Capitol, Angeli was arrested on January 9 on federal charges of "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds".^[12][13][14] He pleaded guilty to a single charge in September 2021, and was sentenced to three and a half years, or 41 months, in prison in November 2021.^[15]

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Early life and education

Jake Angeli was born in 1988, to Martha Chansley.^[2][16] He attended Moon Valley High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and Glendale Community College, where he completed some coursework in psychology, religion, philosophy, and ceramics.^[17][18]

Career

Angeli enlisted in the United States Navy on September 26, 2005. After boot camp and training as a supply clerk, he was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS *Kitty Hawk* in March 2006. At some point, he refused to take an anthrax vaccine and was scheduled for dismissal from the Navy. On September 29, 2007, he was sent to a Transient Personnel Unit in Puget Sound in Washington state, and was processed out of the Navy on October 11. After two years and 15 days in uniform, his final rank was Storekeeper Seaman Apprentice.^[19][20][21] His military awards and decorations include the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and the Navy and Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon.^[19]

Angeli self-published two books: Will & Power: Inside the Living Library (Volume 1), published in 2017 under the pen name Loan Wolf; and One Mind at a Time: A Deep State of Illusion, published in 2020 under the name Jacob Angeli.^[18] He produced and narrated 11 videos espousing various conspiracy theories and uploaded them to the platform Rumble in late 2020.^[22]

Angeli had a profile on the Backstage website seeking work as an actor.^[23]

Activism

See also: Trumpism

Angeli was formerly a supporter of Donald Trump,^{[11][24][25][26]} has a social media following and has attended rallies supporting QAnon, mostly in and around Phoenix.^[11] At various rallies in Arizona, he shouted about QAnon conspiracy theories and carried a sign that says "Q Sent Me".^[27]

In 2019 Angeli frequently protested alone outside the Arizona Capitol, espousing various conspiracy theories.^[28] He was reported as a shamanic practitioner when attending a climate activism protest in Arizona^[29] and his ideology has been described as ecofascist.^[30] In early 2020 he told The Arizona Republic that he began wearing a fur hat and face paint to attract attention so that he could then talk about QAnon and "other truths".^[11][28] He appeared at a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in the Phoenix area in order to spread the QAnon conspiracy theory.^[31] He protested COVID-19 lockdowns in Arizona.^{[citation needed]}

Following the 2020 United States presidential election, Angeli's protests focused on challenging the results of the vote in Arizona.^[11][32] He camped outside the Maricopa County Courthouse during the vote counting process,^[33] and gave a speech at a rally there on November 7, the day that president-elect Joe Biden announced his win, declaring, "This election has not been called! Don't believe that lie! They got their hands caught in the cookie jar and we're going to the Supreme Court! Trump always looks like he's going to lose. And then he wins."^[26]

Participation in the 2021 Capitol attack

During the 2021 United States Capitol attack on January 6, Angeli entered the United States Senate floor in the Capitol, wearing his "shamanic" attire,^[11][28] including a bison-horned fur headdress, and war paint in red, white, and blue, as well as carrying a six-foot-high (1.8 m) spear, with an American flag tied below the spear head.^[34] He was also photographed standing on the raised platform in front of Vice President Mike Pence's chair, gaining him significant media attention. He later said police had initially blocked the crowd from entry, but had then specifically allowed them entry, at which point he entered.^[35] However, on March 16, 2021, the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. released previously unseen video footage of Angeli entering the Capitol building after windows were smashed.^[36]

Court transcripts reveal Angeli told the FBI that he had traveled to the Capitol "as a part of a group effort, with other 'patriots' from Arizona, at the request of the President that all 'patriots' come to DC on January 6, 2021".^[37] Prior the Capitol being invaded, Angeli called out for the demonstrators to pause and join him in prayer, saying, "Thank you for allowing the United States to be reborn. We love you and we thank you. In Christ's holy name, we pray."^[38] After the riot, Angeli told reporters, "The fact that we had a bunch of our traitorsin office hunker down, put on their gas masks and retreat into their underground bunker, I consider that a win."^[6]

On January 8, Angeli was posted as a person of interest with the Washington DC Police.^[27] Interviewed while wanted, Angeli said that he believed he did nothing wrong, telling NBC: "I walked through an open door, dude."^[6] On January 8, Angeli told KPNX that he "wasn't worried" about possible charges.^[27] Angeli had no criminal record in Arizona before taking part in the riot.^[27]

Arrest and criminal proceedings

On January 9, Angeli was arrested and brought up on U.S. federal charges of "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds".^[12] A Capitol police special agent was quoted as saying that he identified Angeli by his "unique attire and extensive tattoos covering his arms and left side of his torso".^[39] Angeli voluntarily spoke to the Washington Field Office of the FBI prior to his arrest.^[40] In a January 14 court filing, federal prosecutors said that Angeli had left a note on Pence's desk in the Senate chamber that said "It's only a matter of time, justice is coming."^[41]

While jailed awaiting trial, Angeli refused to eat because the food served was not organic.^[42] Subsequently, a court ordered that he receive organic food.^[43]

Beginning in January 2021 through his guilty plea on September 2, Angeli was represented by St. Louis attorney Albert Watkins.^[44][45] In a written statement, Watkins argued that Angeli had no part in the violence, did not hide his identity, was unarmed, not destructive, and followed the instructions of law enforcement officials in a respectful fashion; and that Angeli was carrying a megaphone so his voice could be heard. 

Additionally, he presented evidence Angeli had been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder while serving the Navy.^[46] He also said in an interview with KSDKin St. Louis, "[Angeli] is responsible for his actions. He regrets where he is today".^[47] Watkins publicly called on President Trump to pardon his client,^[48] arguing that Angeli had been unarmed, not violent, and not destructive, and had been acting on the "invitation" of the president.^[49] 

Later in January, Angeli made overtures for a presidential pardon from Trump through White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.^[50] When the pardon was not granted, Watkins said, "He (Angeli) regrets very very much having not just been duped by the President, but by being in a position where he allowed that duping to put him in a position to make decisions he should not have made."^[5][50] According to Watkins, Angeli was prepared to testify against Trump in his second impeachment trial.^[51] However, the trial ended with Trump's acquittal without any witnesses being called.^[52][53]

On March 8, 2021, federal judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Angeli should not be released from jail, saying his lawyer's arguments were "so frivolous as to insult the Court's intelligence". In a written statement, the judge said the "defendant does not fully appreciate the severity of the allegations against him."^[54]

On September 3, 2021, Angeli pleaded guilty to a single count of obstructing an official proceeding and agreed to accept the prosecution's recommended sentence of 41 to 51 months in prison as part of the settlement.Earlier, his lawyer said Angeli broke away from QAnon and asked that it no longer be used in terms for him.^[1] Judge Lamberth turned down a request for release (Angeli wanted to visit his grandfather while Watkins wanted to provide him with shelter and care for his mental health) on the grounds that there was no convincing evidence that there would not be any risk of escape.^[55] On November 17, Angeli was sentenced to 41 months in prison.^[56] As of May 1, 2022 he was incarcerated at**Federal Correctional Institution, Safford** under BOP register # 24866-509.

Disinformation concerning role

For broader coverage of the conspiracy theory that connects antifa to the Capitol attack, see Antifa (United States) § Capitol attack (2021).

After the storming of the Capitol, pro-Trump users on Facebook circulated rumors trying to disassociate Angeli as a Trump supporter and right wing advocate, spreading false information that Angeli was instead associated with antifa or the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and had infiltrated the event as an agent provocateur. Those false reports frequently included a photo of Angeli at a BLM rally in Arizona, cropping out his "Q Sent Me" sign that indicates that Angeli was counter-protesting rather than participating in the rally.^[57]

In a January 6 tweet from hisTwitter account, USAwolfpack, Angeli responded to speculations made by Trump campaign lawyer Lin Wood: "Mr. Wood. I am not antifa or blm. I'm a Qanon & digital soldier. My name is Jake & I marched with the police & fought against BLM & ANTIFA in PHX."^[58][59] Snopes investigated the statement, concluding that he did attend a BLM rally, that he is not affiliated with Antifa, and was an active Trump supporter.^[57]

There was also disinformation propagated which falsely claimed Angeli colluded with Nancy Pelosi's son-in-law, Michiel Vos, seen in a photo with him outside the U.S. Capitol Building. Snopes wrote that Vos is a reporter with the Dutch free-to-air television channel RTL, and the image is from a story on the protests which Vos wrote for Dutch news program RTL Boulevard.^[60]

Views

Angeli has stated his beliefs that televisions and radios emit "very specific frequencies that are inaudible," that "affect the brain waves of your brain".^[18] He has also spoken about the Bilderberg conspiracy theory and said that**Freemasons designed Washington, D.C**. according to "ley lines" that amplify the Earth's magnetic field.^[18] During a 2020 interview on ORF, Angeli declared that "in order to beat this evil occultic force you need a light occultic force … [you need] a force that is of the side of God, of love … almost like on the side of the angels … as opposed to the demons."^[4] In reflecting on the Capitol storming, Angeli said that "What we did on January 6 in many ways was an evolution in consciousness, because as we marched down the street along these ley lines shouting 'USA' or shouting things like 'freedom'... we were actually affecting the quantum realm."^[18]

Prosecutors have alleged that Angeli believes he is an alien or higher being and is destined to ascend to another reality.^[61]

When asked about her son's views in 2021, Martha Chansley told ABC15 Arizona that "it takes a lot of courage to be a patriot".^[16]

In popular culture

An animated version of Angeli appears in the "South ParQ Vaccination Special" episode of South Park, in which he becomes a home school tutor for "Tutornon".^[62][63]

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The antler guy isn't a climate activist. He's an eco-fascist.

The "climate twist" in the Trump-led riot is not what Michael Shellenberger says it is.

Emily Atkin

Jan 11

Supporters of Trump, including Jake Angeli, breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images.]

I decided to peek at the Twitter accounts of the Republican Party’s favorite climate “experts” over the weekend. I wanted to see what they were saying about the deadly, violent riots President Donald Trump invoked at the U.S. Capitol—specifically, whether they were spreading misinformation about it with the same ease they spread misinformation about the climate crisis.

The first account I looked at wasMichael Shellenberger. The founder of the pro-nuclear group Environmental Progress accepts the existence of climate change, but rejects science showing catastrophic impacts. Earlier this year, Shellenberger downplayed the health consequences of climate change as the Republican-called witness at a House climate hearing.

I didn’t have to look any further after going to his profile. Because when I got there, I saw he was implying that Jake Angeli—the high-profile Q-anon supporter/pro-Trump rioter wearing antlers and face paint, recently taken into custody for storming the Capitol—was a “paid actor” who might also be a secret lefty climate activist. It was too good not to look into.

Michael Shellenberger

@ShellenbergerMD

There's a climate change twist in the plot!

The guy in the buckskin appears to be a professional actor

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In 2019, he played a shaman at a climate event in Arizona!

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Nobody could make this stuff up!

Hundreds march in Arizona in solidarity with climate strikes around the world

Hundreds of young people\u00a0converged\u00a0on the streets of downtown Phoenix Friday afternoon, demanding action on climate change.

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Michael Shellenberger

@ShellenbergerMD

Does that mean the guy, Jake Angeli, was hired to participate in both events?

Or was one volunteer?

Wild and weird story

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Shellenberger amplifies “paid actor” climate activist conspiracy

The implication that Angeli might be a secret climate activist or paid actor first started spreading on Wednesday, when right-wing YouTuber Cari Kelemen shared photos of Angeli attending a climate rally and a Black Lives Matter rally.

“Trump supporters don't usually attend 'climate activism' events,” she said in asince-deleted tweet. “The guy is an actor. Who knows what side he's on?" 

The next day, Shellenberger tweeted that there was “a climate change twist in the plot” of the riots. “The guy in the buckskin appears to be a professional actor,” he said. Shellenberger cited the climate rally as evidence, and said Angeli might have been “hired to participate.” He also questioned whether which side Angeli might “volunteer” for.

“Nobody could make this stuff up!” he said.

Actually, it’s very easy to make this stuff up.

It’s not hard to believe Angeli is a secret climate activist getting paid to impersonate a Trump supporter while inciting violent riots. All you have to do is pretend the signs he’s holding at the protests don’t exist, while also believing that everything Angeli ever said about himself is a lie.

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The photo Keleman tweeted of Angeli at a Black Lives Matter rally, for example, cropped out his sign. The full photo shows he was there to express support for Q-anon. Angeli himself has also said he was there as a counter-protester, and is a fervent supporter of Trump and Q-anon.

The sign Angeli brought to the Global Youth Climate Strike in Arizona in 2019 also indicated the reason he was there: to advertise his conspirituality-centered Youtube account. (Conspirituality, writes Jules Evans, the policy director of the Centre for the History of Emotions, is the overlap between conspiracy theory culture and spirituality/wellness culture, which Angeli subscribes to).

There is also no evidence that Angeli is a paid actor. The only thing that comes close is a now-deleted profile on Backstage.com, in which he called himself a “highly talented” voice actor, but lists no actual work performed. (Anyone can make a Backstage account).

The real “climate twist in the plot” is that Angeli is eco-fascist

Angeli’s sign at the climate march said: “The poles are shifting! The ice caps are melting! This is Ragnarok! It’s time to wake up! Youtube Star Seed Academy Channel.”

YouTube appears to have deleted Angeli’s channel for violation of its community guidelines; The name is now owned by a Canadian woman who says she has no affiliation to Angeli. But existingYoutube videos of Angeli talking about Star Seed Academy show him talking about Q and mind control and psychedelic drugs; typical conspirituality stuff, according to Evans.

Evans recently published a fascinating deep-dive into Angeli’s now-deleted social media accounts to explain his ideology. In that deep-dive, Evans found evidence of Angeli’s environmental beliefs. He “says he’s interested in ‘cleansed ecosystems’ and rants against Monsanto and all the chemicals in our environment. But he’s not into global political solutions or anything involving the U.N., all of which he thinks is part of the evil new world order.”

Angeli’s specific use of the word “cleansed” seems pretty important, as Evans has explained that conspirituality folks often dabble in eco-fascism. That’s one of the many reasons she calls the ideology’s subscribers “Nazi Hippies.”

Indeed, there’s a well-documented connection between white supremacists and green living; specifically, the “yearning for purity in the environmental sphere and a desire for racialized purity in the social sphere.” These are all things Angeli has talked about. It’s not that hard to find, but it’s definitely harder than just making stuff up.

The difficult truth: they’re covering for Hippy Nazis

Engaging with reality can be hard, and this situation is no different. Because if Angeli was not a secret leftist or a paid actor, that means he attended both events as exactly the person he claims to be. And if that’s true, that means a Nazi Hippy with eco-fascist sympathies has had his face plastered on every newspaper in the world because the president of the United States inspired him to mount a violent insurrection on the U.S. government.

That’s a hard thing to accept. It’s even harder to accept that many prominent conservatives are ignoring and/or make excuses for Nazi Hippies with eco-fascist sympathies who tried to mount a violent insurrection on the U.S. government. It’s almost unthinkable to accept that some of those people are advising the GOP on climate change.

At the same time, though, it makes a lot of sense why the GOP’s preferred climate adviser would push the unproven theory that Angeli is not actually a Trump supporter. It allows Republicans to condemn the violence without acknowledging responsibility or having to do anything about it. That’s just like his theory that climate change is not actually catastrophic, which allows Republicans to acknowledge climate change but continue to do nothing.

The Venn diagrams continue to overlap into oblivion.

Further reading:

“The Climate Crisis Will Be Steroids for Fascism,” Brian Kahn, Earther, Jan. 7, 2021.

After Wednesday, the boundaries of permissible violence have now expanded to a distorting degree, at a time of increasing climate instability. White supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other extremists literally took over the halls of power and got away with it. When climate change upends communities with far fewer defenses—communities that hate groups already scapegoat—the results will be catastrophic.

“Capitol Rioters Walked Away. Climate Protesters Saw a Double Standard,” John Schwartz, New York Times, Jan. 7. 2021.

The relatively small number of arrests after a mob stormed the Capitol left many environmental activists shaken on Thursday — and wanting answers. Why did so many people who brought destruction into the home of American democracy simply walk away after doing so much damage, not just to a building but to the nation’s sense of itself?