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Showing Original Post only (View all)Shaman seeking pardon [View all]
https://www.kmov.com/news/qanon-shaman-hires-st-louis-attorney-al-watkins-seeks-pardon-for-following-trumps-invitation/article_2008074e-56b7-11eb-91d3-6f9c640ddaf4.htmlJake Angeli, whose legal name is Jacob Anthony Chansley, was taken into custody Saturday in Arizona. An indictment unsealed Tuesday in Washington charged the 33-year-old with civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, disorderly conduct in a restricted building, and demonstrating in a Capitol building. Its unclear whether the new charges are felonies or misdemeanors. Chansley was previously charged with two misdemeanors stemming from the violent riot entering a restricted building without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
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Angeli "accepted President Trump's invitation to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol," Watkins said in a statement. Mr. Chansley is an American; he served honorably in the U.S. military. He has zero criminal history. He is a lover of nature, routinely practices meditation, is an active practicer of yoga and eats only organic food. He took seriously the countless messages of President Trump. He believed in President Trump. Like tens of millions of other Americans, Chansley felt -- for the first time in his life -- as though his voice was being heard.
Watkins said Angeli played no part in the violence and surrendered peacefully, warranting a pardon.
My client had heard the oft-repeated words of President Trump, Mr. Watkins continued. The words and invitation of a president are supposed to mean something. Given the peaceful and compliant fashion in which Mr. Chansley comported himself, it would be appropriate and honorable for the president to pardon Mr. Chansley and other like-minded, peaceful individuals who accepted the presidents invitation with honorable intentions.
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Did he start eating or maybe is he going to starve to death? I don't think so.
Maraya1969
Jan 2021
#1
More likely they just told him here, this is organic. It's what I would have done.
lettucebe
Jan 2021
#25
Chansley was an accessory to the Incitement of Insurrection for which Trump has been impeached
LongtimeAZDem
Jan 2021
#3
I mean, everyone has zero criminal history -- until they start committing crimes.
W_HAMILTON
Jan 2021
#18