Horned QAnon ‘shaman’ to plead guilty in Jan. 6 attack

By Marshall Cohen and Paul LeBlanc | CNN

US Capitol riot suspect and alleged “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley, who went viral for wearing a horned bearskin outfit during the attack, is acceptable to plead blameworthy connected Friday, according to tribunal records.

Chansley has been charged with six national crimes successful transportation with the January 6 insurrection, including felonies for civilian upset and obstructing legislature proceedings. The tribunal docket doesn’t bespeak to which charges Chansley is expected to plead guilty. His lawyer Al Watkins declined to say.

“The way charted by Mr. Chansley since January 6 has been a process, 1 which has progressive pain, depression, solitary confinement, introspection, designation of intelligence wellness vulnerabilities, and a coming to grips with the request for much self-work,” Watkins said successful a statement.

Chansley’s defence attorneys person pushed respective times for his merchandise from jail, wherever helium has been held since his apprehension successful January. The justice successful his lawsuit has repeatedly ruled that Chansley is excessively unsafe for release.

“Defendant characterizes himself arsenic a peaceful idiosyncratic who was welcomed into the Capitol gathering connected January 6th by constabulary officers. The Court finds nary of his galore attempts to manipulate the grounds and minimize the seriousness of his actions persuasive,” DC District Judge Royce Lamberth wrote successful March.

A well-known fig successful the QAnon conspiracy community, Chansley was 1 of galore QAnon believers who person been charged successful the Capitol riot. Watkins said Thursday that Chansley is present “seeking, arsenic portion of his reconciliation of wherever helium is today, to measurement distant and region himself from the Q vortex.”

Earlier this week, the Justice Department secured its 50th blameworthy plea successful the insurrection.

Nearly 600 radical from 44 states and Washington, DC, person been charged successful national court, according to CNN’s latest tally, with authorities announcing caller arrests connected a near-daily basis.

Prosecutors are moving to resoluteness galore of the lower-level cases, and astir of the 50 blameworthy pleas are for nonviolent rioters.

Meanwhile, cases are progressing against defendants who allegedly attacked constabulary oregon are members of right-wing extremist groups, similar the Proud Boys.