QAnon Shaman’s Mom says Wait, Son, Trump Will Be Reinstated and Pardon You

An interesting story about the QAnon Shaman and family banking on Donald Trump’s reinstatement being the answer to the Shaman, whose real name is Jacob Chansley, not having to serve a 41 month prison sentence is going around. Dead State is reporting that the Shaman’s mom wants him to hold out for the reinstatement. Here’s further elaboration from the New York Times:

At a news conference after the hearing, Mr. Watkins told reporters that Mr. Chansley had been under pressure from his family not to plead guilty. His family, Mr. Watkins said, believed that Mr. Trump was going to be reinstated as president and could issue Mr. Chansley a pardon — a baseless theory of the sort once promoted by QAnon that continues to circulate among some Trump supporters.

“It took a lot of courage for a young man who was raised by his mother to say, ‘No,’” Mr. Watkins said.

I found this comment intriguing. We’re supposed to feel sorry for the guy because he’s from a one parent home? Does he have any idea how many people are in exactly that same boat, and we don’t go storming government buildings and smearing caa caa on the floors?

Mr. Chansley, who had appeared in his shaman costume at several pro-Trump rallies before Jan. 6, was also one of the first defendants to blame Mr. Trump for his own behavior at the riot. A few weeks after Mr. Chansley’s arrest, Mr. Watkins said that Mr. Trump was culpable of inciting his followers to attack the Capitol, adding that he planned to ask the White House for a pardon for his client.

“Does our president bear responsibility?” Mr. Watkins told The New York Times at the time. “Hell, yes, he does.”

More recently, however, Mr. Watkins has said that Mr. Chansley — like other rioters — felt betrayed by Mr. Trump. He also said that Mr. Chansley has repudiated the QAnon cult and would like to be known merely as a shaman, not the QAnon shaman.

“The path charted by Mr. Chansley since Jan. 6 has been a process, one which has involved pain, depression, solitary confinement, introspection, recognition of mental health vulnerabilities and a coming to grips with the need for more self-work,” Mr. Watkins said in a statement on Thursday.

If Watkins asked Trump for a pardon, clearly he didn’t get it. And it’s pure fantasy that Trump will be reinstated and pardon Chansley at that time. Talk about clutching at straws.

But be of good cheer, Shaman, Sidney Powell is making movies about the dastardly conditions which the “political prisoners” of 01/06 must endure. Maybe you’ll catch her eye and she’ll put you in one and people will cry and contribute to your GoFundMe page. And Powell being able to help you out, while an insane proposition, is at least saner than Trump’s reinstatement, which will only happen when Louie Gohmert figures out how many degrees to alter the moon’s orbit in order to combat climate change. You absolutely do not want to hold your breath on this one.