Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene mentioned she was “honored” to fulfill Jacob Chansley, the Jan.6, 2021 Capitol rioter often called “QAnon Shaman.”
“The entire country knows Jake as the face of the Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’ because the media plastered his image and slandered him all over the world, the Biden regime’s DOJ wrongfully prosecuted him for innocently and nonviolently walking through the Capital, and he was then treated horrifically in prisons even being held in solitary confinement for over 10 months just like many other J6’ers,” she wrote in a prolonged put up on X Monday.
“Yet when I spoke with Jake, he is remarkably positive, happy, forgiving and determined,” she wrote. “Most people would be crushed and forever destroyed after being treated so horrendously by the media and their own government, but not Jake.”
The Georgia Republican met him on the Turning Point USA convention over the weekend. In her put up, she hooked up a photograph of herself with him donning the purple, white and blue face paint and horned headpiece that he’s recognized for.
Chansley, 35, was sentenced to 41 months in jail in 2021 after he pleaded responsible to a cost of felony obstruction of an official continuing. He was among the many first rioters to enter the Capitol. He served 27 months earlier than being launched to midway home this previous March.
In her put up, the lawmaker mentioned she is “constantly angry and frustrated” together with her Republican colleagues for not doing extra to assist those that have been convicted for his or her participation within the Capitol assault. She argued that a lot of them “nonviolently walked in and out” of the Capitol, and in contrast them to Black Lives Matter and Antifa protestors, who had their expenses dropped.
“This is such a hypocritical injustice in America and it makes me sick,” she mentioned.
Last month, House Speaker Mike Johnson launched footage of the assault on the Capitol, saying that the choice “will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials.”
More than 40,000 hours of footage can be posted over the following a number of months. Not the entire tapes can be made public. About 5% of the footage can be withheld as a result of it could “involve sensitive security information related to the building architecture,” Mr. Johnson mentioned.
Ms. Greene and plenty of of her conservative colleagues are recognized for being very essential over the best way that the Jan. 6 defendants have been handled.
Chansley, an Arizona native, stuffed out paperwork to run for Congress as a Libertarian for the state’s eighth district.
