News of 35-year-old QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley’s early release from federal prison for good behavior in his role as the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots tells the whole story about events of that shameful day. Chansley was relocated to a federal halfway house in Phoenix, scheduled for lease May 25. Sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for his trespassing and vandalism on Jan. 6, Chansley personified the utter mayhem on Jan. 6, called an “insurrection” by House Democrats. Whatever happened Jan. 6, it was anything but an insurrection, with misfits likely the horn-and-fur-clad Chansley standing out like a sore thumb. Once in custody, Chansley sang like a canary, pleading with the judge for mercy, claiming he’d die in federal custody without his organic food. Unlike the Democrat narrative, Chansley told the judge in Nov. 21, 2021 that his behavior was “indefensible” and he had “no excuse.”
Democrats blamed Trump for the “insurrection,” resulting in 82-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) impeaching 76-year-old former President Donald Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” Democrats had only one thing in mind, preventing Trump from running for president in 2024. Nine House impeachment managers led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) stood on their head trying to convince a Senate jury that Trump incited the riot with his Jan. 6, 2021 speech on the Ellipse, hours before the so-called “insurrection.” Senate Judiciary Committee jurors disagreed with impeachment mangers, acquitting Trump Feb. 13, 2021. Chansely give the real story behind Jan. 6, a bunch of rabble-rousers swept up in mass hysteria, all because they wanted to grandstand on the nation’s biggest stage. Chansley told the judge he was nothing like the criminals held in federal custody.
Democrats and the press painted Jan. 6 as a blatant attempt by Trump to overturn the Nov. 8, 2020 presidential election by stopping the Electoral College certification. House Democrats knew when they prosecuted the impeachment trial against Trump that the riots were planned for months according to a definitive FBI report. Yet Raskin and other partisan Democrats and two token Republicans, including former Re. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Il.), insisted Trump planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 riots. Democrats and the press continued to press their case against Trump in the highly partisan Jan. 6 House Select Committee, cherry picking whatever evidence incriminated Trump. Chansley said it best on Jan. 6 armed with his cell phone, collecting selfies taking picture in the Senate chamber. Like Chansley, other Jan. 6 misanthropes came armed with cell phones.
What more fraud can the American public take from the media, insisting that Trump’s “supporters” tried to overturn the U.S. government? House Democrats said nothing about the Jan. 6 riots as payback for the months of left-wing anarchists, led by Black Lives Matter, looting, occupying and burning down American cities in the summer of 2020 due to George Floyd’s May 25, 2020 death at the hands of Minneapolis police. Whatever right wing groups felt about the 2020 presidential election, they had strong feelings about the federal government doing nothing to stop the left-wing violence. Trump certainly didn’t help matters claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him by corrupt Democrats. Whatever happened on Election Day, Trump has no real proof that widespread voter fraud took place. Jan. 6 was more than a response of the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election.
When Chansley was sentenced Nov. 21, 2021, he told the judge about his true intentions. “I am in no way shape or form a dangerous criminal. I am not a violent man. I am not an insurrectionist. I am certainly not no a domestic terrorist,” Chansley told the judge. “I am nothing like these criminals that I have been incarcerated with.” When you look at the real story behind Jan. 6, it was certainly an example, as the FBI said, of careful planning by certain right wing groups. Trump told his Jan. 6 audience to protest peacefully at the Capital. House Democrats said Trump didn’t call off the crowd for hours, showing his dereliction of duty. If Trump has nothing to do with the rioters, how could the House Select Committee think he could call the rioters to stand down? Chansley spoke for himself when he disputed the House Select Committee claim that the Jan. 6 rioters tried to overthrow the U.S. government.
So many lies have been told by House Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans about Jan. 6, insisting that Trump planned and orchestrated a coup d’etat. Interviews by some of the 1,000 Jan. 6 rabble-rousers indicate they felt betrayed by Trump for not pardoning them before he left office. Whatever the motives for the Jan. 6 riots, they were certainly not only about the Nov. 3, 2020 election. Chansley said it best when he shared his own sordid story to the judge who sentenced him to 41 months in federal prison. “Mike Pence is a f***ing traitor,” Chansley was quoted on Jan. 6, taking a selfie Jan. 6, 2021 at the desk of President of the Senate. “It’s only a matter of time. Justice is coming,” Chanley once wrote. Chansely certain got swept up in the Jan. 6 hysteria, with many of the rabble-rousers having their own agendas, including about making a startment about government protesting.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma .
