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   From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Joseph A. Wulfsohn   
   Published March 9, 2023   
      
   The ex-lawyer for Jacob Chansley, the Navy veteran known widely in the   
   media as the "QAnon Shaman" for his outlandish look during the Capitol   
   riot on Jan. 6, told Fox News' Tucker Carlson he had not seen the   
   newly-released footage that could have aided his client against federal   
   charges.   
      
   Chansley, who famously went shirtless and donned face paint and a   
   horned hat while carrying an American flag on the day Congress   
   certified President Biden's election victory, was portrayed as the   
   leader of pro-Trump rioters who violently attacked Capitol Police   
   officers and defaced the Capitol Building. However, the over 40,000   
   hours of Capitol footage exclusively obtained by "Tucker Carlson   
   Tonight" show him being escorted around by Capitol Police without   
   incident.   
      
   At one point, at least nine police officers were seen in close   
   proximity to Chansley, and none of them slowed him down.   
      
   Chansley was later arrested and federally charged for "knowingly   
   entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without   
   lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on   
   Capitol grounds." He was sentenced to nearly four years in prison.   
      
   Albert Watkins, the former attorney for Chansley, told Tucker Carlson   
   on Wednesday that he had not seen the Jan. 6 footage first shared   
   Monday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" while serving his client.   
      
   Watkins said the footage proves Chansley did not have all the evidence   
   to decide whether he should go to trial or take a plea. (He ultimately   
   took a plea.}   
      
   "This is a man who had tremendous intelligence, [is] very gentle, very,   
   very articulate who was diagnosed 15 years earlier by the government   
   with a mental health issue- and the government knew that," Watkins told   
   Carlson. "The government knew through three hearings when we begged and   
   pleaded to get this man out of solitary confinement, literally falling   
   into an abyss, mentally."   
      
   "And through each of those three hearings that government assistant   
   U.S. attorney knew the most important aspect of that hearing was that   
   Jake was not violent. The government knew," he continued. "They knew   
   that Jake had walked around with all of these police officers. They had   
   that video footage I didn't get. It wasn't disclosed to me. It wasn't   
   provided to me."   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-lawyer-qanon-shaman-says-ja   
   -6-footage-wasnt-shown-client-calls-prison-sentence-tragedy   
      
   When the truth comes out it will show Nancy Pelosi wanted that riot to   
   happen, and did nothing to prevent it.  She wanted people to enter the   
   Capitol.   
      
   Trump told Pelosi she should have ten thousand National Guard standing   
   by, she refused.  She was in charge of security.   
      
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