Marjorie Taylor Greene Fully Embraces ‘QAnon Shaman’ Who Served Jail Time For Jan. 6th Attack on U.S. Capitol
Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) full-heartedly embraced Jan. 6th rioter Jake Chansley on Monday after meeting with the so-called QAnon Shaman over the weekend.
“I was honored to meet Jake Chansley this weekend, and I want to explain why I say honored,” Greene wrote on X/Twitter, adding:
The entire country knows Jake as the face of the Jan 6th “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.
Yet when I spoke with Jake, he is remarkably positive, happy, forgiving, and determined.
Greene went on to claim that Chansley, who participated in a pro-Trump riot aimed at stopping the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S., was wrongly imprisoned.
“Most people would be crushed and forever destroyed after being treated so horrendously by the media and their own government, but not Jake,” she continued, raging:
I am constantly angry and frustrated with my own GOP conference that most Republicans in Washington refuse to do anything to help the J6’ers, while the federal government continues to tyrannically destroy their lives.
Chansley pleaded guilty in September of 2021 to a single felony count of obstructing an official proceeding before Congress and was sentenced to 41 months in prison – he only served a portion of his sentence before being released. Chansley was granted all organic food while in prison after refusing to eat the regular food on offer. Chansley became the face of the violent Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol for his outlandish costume that day. The Government Accountability Office found that 114 law enforcement officers were injured on Jan. 6th as pro-Trump rioters viciously beat them as they stormed the Capitol building that day.
Chansley and his lawyer cited cherry-picked footage released by then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson to claim he acted non-violently that day. The Arizona Mirror reported at the time that prosecutors argued in response “that Carlson only showed about four minutes of Chansley’s approximately one hour inside the U.S. Capitol. Among the things the right-wing television host didn’t show his audience were Chansley breaching a police line outside the building as part of the crowd, or facing off with members of the Capitol Police for more than 30 minutes outside the Senate chamber.”
Greene went on to offer some historical revisionism of that day, saying, “Many of them nonviolently walked in and out of the Capital and have been and are still being locked up for years, while over 95% of violent BLM and Antifa rioters charges were dropped!”
“This is such a hypocritical injustice in America and it makes me sick,” she added.
Read her full post here.
