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Nearly two months after Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol006 Archives the QAnon Shaman is defending his actions that day from his jail cell.

The prominent QAnon figure is also patting himself on the back for...saving the Congressional break room muffins.

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Jacob Chansley, who is also known as Jake Angeli or simply as the “QAnon Shaman,” gave his first interview from jail to CBS News’ new 60 Minutes+ show on the streaming service Paramount+.

During his discussion with host Laurie Segall, Chansley showed little remorse for what went down at the Capitol on Jan. 6, when a mob of Trump supporters broke into the building and caused considerable damage. Five people died as a result of the mayhem.

“My actions were not an attack on this country,” Chansley said in the interview. “I sang a song, that’s a part of shamanism. It’s about creating positive vibrations in a sacred chamber.”

Chansley went on to say how he wanted to “bring God back to the Senate” and explains how he actually stopped some of the other Trump supporters who'd broken into the Capitol that day from “stealing and vandalizing that sacred space, the Senate.”

The example the QAnon Shaman gave? He stopped people from “stealing muffins out of the break room.”

His only regret, he explained, was entering the Capitol. Chansley claimed in the interview that he thought he and the other QAnon followers, Proud Boys, and militia members were allowed to be in the Capitol building and inside the Congressional chambers. He says that Capitol police officers “waved” them in.

While the QAnon Shaman is disappointed that Trump didn’t have his back and didn't pardon him and the others who stormed the Capitol while he was still president, he still believes that Trump cares about the Constitution and the American people. When Segall asked him if regrets being so loyal to Donald Trump, the QAnon Shaman gave her a resounding “no.”

Chansley has become the most identifiable of those who were involved in the storming of the Capitol building on Jan. 6. However, Chansley has been a prominent figure within the QAnon and Trump supporter circles for a while. He was often seen at Trump rallies and events protesting the 2020 presidential election results. As a QAnon follower, Chansley was a believer in the conspiracy theory’s central tenet: Trump is battling a secret cabal made up of cannibalistic pedophiles within the Democratic Party and the Hollywood elite who run a global Satanic trafficking ring.

Chansley, along with others who were there that day, believed that Jan. 6 was the last chance to “Stop the Steal” and re-elect Donald Trump as President of the United States. Thanks to conspiracies that spread like wildfire online, many who were there at the Capitol believed that Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the election results before Congress certified them.

The interview with the QAnon Shaman just happens to have come out on March 4, another important date for some QAnon followers who believe it is when Trump will once again be inaugurated as president. (He will not.)

Tomorrow a judge will decide if Chansley can leave jail before his trial. (Perhaps the judge will consider the muffins when making his ruling?)

The QAnon Shaman has been accused of not only trespassing into the Capitol building but also leaving a threatening note for Pence that reads “It’s only a matter of time. Justice is coming.” Prosecutors also claim that he was carrying a weapon that day, a spear attached to a flag pole that was carrying the American flag.

If convicted, the QAnon Shaman faces up to 20 years in prison.

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