Jake Angeli

Jake Angeli in 2020

Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley (born c. 1980), also known as the "QAnon Shaman", "Q Shaman", and "Yellowstone Wolf", is an American conspiracy theorist, author, and activist who participated in the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, for which he was convicted of felony charges of obstructing an official proceeding. He is a former supporter of former president Donald Trump and a proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Quotes

• The fact that we had a bunch of our traitors in office hunker down, put on their gas masks and retreat into their underground bunker, I consider that a win
  • 7 January 2021

• [Regarding Donald Trump's decision not to assist those individuals arrested for their role in the riots, Chansley stated he still believed Trump cared about the Constitution and the American people, and that is why it] wounded me so deeply and why it disappointed me so greatly that I and others did not get a pardon.
  • Tommy Beer. "'Q Shaman' Deeply 'Wounded' And Disappointed That Trump Didn't Pardon Him" (archived), Forbes, 4 March 2021

• No, they were not, ma'am. My actions were not an attack on this country. That is incorrect. That is inaccurate, entirely.
  Well, I sang a song. And that's a part of shamanism. It's about-- creating positive vibrations in a sacred chamber.
  I also stopped people from stealing and vandalizing that sacred space, the Senate. Okay?
  I actually stopped somebody from stealing muffins out of the-- out of the break room.
  And I also said a prayer in that sacred chamber.
  Because it was my intention to bring divinity, and to bring God back into the Senate.
  And that is-- and that is the one very serious regret that I have, was believing that when we were waved in by police officers, that it was acceptable.
  I consider myself a lover of my country.
  I consider myself a believer in the Constitution.
  I consider myself a believer in truth and our founding principles.
  I consider myself a believer in God.
  • 5 March 2021 interview with Laurie Segall of 60 minutes, as reported by CBS News

• I regret entering that building with every fibre of my body.
  • 5 March 2021 report by BBC

• QAnon is a fiction that was created by the Operation Mockingbird Media. There's Q, [...] and then there's the Anons.
  • "'YOUR WELCOME' with Michael Malice #271: Jake Angeli" (at 2m50s), Your Welcome on YouTube, 9 August 2023.

• One of the funny things is that I never ever ever called myself the QAnon Shaman, but the media said that I gave myself that name, that I called myself the QAnon Shaman. That never happened.
  • "'YOUR WELCOME' with Michael Malice #271: Jake Angeli" (at 6m47s), Your Welcome on YouTube, 9 August 2023.

• [To the question 'Were you, on January 6th, attempting to overthrow the government?':] No.
  • "'YOUR WELCOME' with Michael Malice #271: Jake Angeli" (at 21m9s), Your Welcome on YouTube, 9 August 2023.