'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley speaks out on Trump pardon and why he has NO regrets over January 6 riots

After serving astir 2 years down bars and becoming 1 of the astir infamous faces of the January 6 Capitol riots, Jacob Chansley – amended known arsenic the 'QAnon Shaman' – is present basking successful the state of his pardon by President Trump.

'[The pardon] was a value lifted. A precise heavy, dense value lifted, due to the fact that astatine immoderate time, the authorities could travel kicking my doorway successful and say, you're nether arrest', the 37-year-old told DailyMail.com successful an exclusive interrogation successful the aftermath of the decision.

'I don't number my chickens until they hatch. I trusted Donald Trump to bash the close thing. He's a antheral of his connection – promises made, promises kept.'

The bid to pardon 1,500 radical for their behaviour during the January 6, 2021 effort to forestall the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election triumph has proved 1 of the astir arguable decisions of Trump's fledgling 2nd word truthful far.

Along with Chansley, Proud Boys person Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers laminitis Stewart Rhodes are among the beneficiaries arsenic are others convicted of violently attacking Capitol constabulary officers.

Chansley, who was not charged with convulsive behavior, inadvertently became the look of January 6 owed to the celebrated photos that amusement him dressed successful a Native American headdress, his look painted reddish and blue, wrong the Senate.

He inactive has the headdress which was returned by national authorities aft his merchandise and which helium keeps harmless due to the fact that 'it's worthy a batch of wealth and it has sentimental value. It was the time my beingness changed'.

Four years connected and 27 months successful situation aboriginal – 10 months of it successful solitary owed to his notoriety – Arizona autochthonal Chansley says helium has nary regrets implicit what happened that time oregon his consequent imprisonment.

'Holding connected to regret is like, it's similar holding connected to a fart. You conscionable don't privation to bash it. You got to fto it go, bro. And it doesn't matter.'

Chansley added: 'It is atrocious spiritual hygiene, don't clasp connected to regret, don't clasp connected to anger, don't clasp connected to resentment. Let each that worldly go.'

Nevertheless, contempt offering a fulsome apology during his sentencing, helium remains convinced helium and others progressive were over-prosecuted and ne'er genuinely deserved the sentences handed out.

He told DailyMail.com that helium believes unit of immoderate benignant should ne'er spell unpunished but said the rioters who did onslaught the cops had each served a important magnitude of clip by the clip they were controversially pardoned.

'I don't judge that unit should spell unpunished,' helium told DailyMail.com. 'I bash judge that those [people] did perpetrate acts of violence, due to the fact that successful galore cases it was truthful evident – I mean, the authorities had video evidence.

'Most radical pled guilty, and they had already served their condemnation for 3 years. 

'So, they served their clip to a definite extent, and they served their clip mode much than the BLM and Antifa rioters did successful 2020.

'Way much than immoderate of these amerciable migrant rapists and murderers person successful places similar New York and LA.

'So, if we're going to person a speech astir this thought of, oh, Trump pardoned the protesters that deed cops, past let's speech astir arresting each the protesters from 2020 that weren't really protesters.

'They were really rioters who were burning down American cities for 200 days. Washington, D.C. was connected fire. It was happening everywhere.'

He added: 'I judge that we were each implicit prosecuted and those radical were nether prosecuted. And that is the quintessence of the thought of a two-tier justness system.'

Chansley, a Navy seasoned and longtime Trump supporter, said helium traveled to DC connected January 6 for 'reasons of a spiritual nature'.

What helium did not expect was for events to unfold arsenic they did – telling DailyMail.com: 'God's fixed maine the quality to spot the aboriginal connected occasion, and determination are ways successful which this prescient imaginativeness has fixed maine the accidental to glimpse moments successful abstraction and clip that astir radical couldn't spot coming.

'That being said, ne'er saw that s**t coming. You cognize what I'm saying?'

While helium did participate the Capitol gathering and was repeatedly photographed inside, helium says: 'if you look and ticker my behaviour connected that time wrong the gathering and outside, I really was a unit for peace.'

That wasn't capable to forestall him from being arrested by cops who said helium had made his mode connected to the Senate level wherever helium climbed connected the dais, took the spot of past Vice-President Mike Pence, refused to budge erstwhile ordered to and declared: 'Mike Pence is simply a f***ing traitor.'

Collared 3 days aboriginal connected January 9, helium pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of obstruction of an authoritative proceeding that September and was handed a 41-month situation word and a $2,000 fine.

Chansley says helium spent the archetypal 10 months successful situation astatine the Alexandria Detention Center successful Virginia successful solitary confinement, initially owed to the Covid-19 pandemic 'and past they said it was for my ain information due to the fact that I was precocious profile'.

Later, helium was moved to Federal prisons successful Oklahoma and Colorado earlier being released from FCI Safford successful Arizona successful March 2023 – 14 months earlier than scheduled.

During his clip successful prison, Chansley says helium was falsely accused of making an flight attempt, which led to him being flown betwixt prisons successful a 'black box' wherever helium was cuffed and incapable to move.

'You guys person nary thought what it's similar to beryllium successful solitary confinement and person the afloat value of the authorities and the media coming down connected you; having virtually millions of radical successful your ain state screaming for your head,' helium told DailyMail.com.

'You person nary thought what that's like. It's hard arsenic f***. It was truthful f***ing hard.'

He likens the acquisition to that of Francis Scott Key who watched the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a Royal Navy vessel during the American Revolutionary War. 

Key past wrote a poem called 'Defense of Fort M'Henry' – the words aboriginal adapted to signifier the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.

Chansley explained: 'For me, watching the Biden inauguration from my compartment successful solitary confinement aft they threw the felonies connected me, and they hung 25 years implicit my head, I had a precise akin feeling to what Francis Scott Key felt.

'Our emblem was inactive determination erstwhile I got retired and truthful I'm precise moved each clip I perceive the Star-Spangled Banner. I mean, I was moved before, but present I'm precise moved.

His clip successful wide colonisation besides gave him nutrient for thought.

'The mode radical reacted to maine successful national situation was this curiosity and excitement,' helium told DailyMail.com.

'It's not similar the national prisons are filled with radical that emotion the national government. They got radical successful determination that saw maine connected TV and were charged up.

'Most prisons really went connected lockdown, actually, by the way, due to the fact that of January 6. They didn't privation riots to popular disconnected astatine prisons. It's like, whoa, I ne'er adjacent thought astir that.

'So, I've learned the far-reaching effects of my choices, and it's fixed maine a bigger view, and I thought I had a large presumption before.'

Since his release, helium has returned location to Phoenix and runs a website called Forbidden Academy wherever helium offers online courses successful subjects ranging from geo-politics to AI and aliens.

He besides made a little foray into politics, filing a connection of involvement successful moving for Congress connected a Libertarian summons earlier dropping out. It is not an acquisition helium says helium plans to repeat.

Now, with Donald Trump opening his 2nd term, Chansley says helium is hoping to spot Americans propulsion unneurotic and that 'we larn what we tin hold on, not what we disagree on'.

Chansley – who eats an organic-only fare – is besides enthusiastic astir Robert Kennedy Jr. taking implicit astatine wellness and quality resources and hopes helium volition propulsion backmost connected Big Pharma, arsenic good arsenic releasing interior files successful the aforesaid mode Elon Musk did erstwhile helium took implicit Twitter and renamed it X.

To those opposing his pardon, his connection is blunt: 'Look astatine the radical that Joe Biden pardoned and past travel and speech to me.'

And for Trump, determination is an connection of help. 

'Thank you. I emotion you, beryllium you one,' Chansley said successful a connection to the caller president.

'And if you privation immoderate assistance investigating January 6, I'd beryllium much than blessed to bash that for you.'