Jacob Chansley was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6. His lawyer has not minced words about him.
On Wednesday, over 10 months after the incident that made him famous, Jacob Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, aka the QAnon Shaman was finally sentenced for his role in the Jan.6 Capitol siege. Chansley had requested that the time he’d already served since being rounded up by the feds be at least partially counted as his sentence ( while quoting Forrest Gump). Instead, he received 41 months, or three years and five months, in prison. Chansley’s lawyer, Albert Watkins, was disappointed with the ruling. But he wasn’t, and has never been, entirely sympathetic with what his client did. Back in May, Watkins — who has tried to argue that Donald Trump “groomed” his followers to become rabid conspiracy theorists who believed in voter fraud nonsense — did not mince words about Watkins and others who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
