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Former Donald Trump mega-fan the QAnon Shaman has announced he is running for Arizona governor, months after publicly turning on the president.
Jacob Angeli-Chansley became known as the ‘QAnon Shaman’ after storming the U.S. Capitol in a horned headdress on January 6, 2021 and is now vying for a political role.
Angeli, who spent 27 months behind bars for his part in the January 6 insurrection and was released in 2023, was once a devoted MAGA acolyte.
- Jacob Angeli-Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman, is running for Arizona Governor after turning against Trump.
- Angeli spent 27 months in prison for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot and now calls the Trump administration a corrupt disaster.
- He filed a bizarre $40 trillion lawsuit naming Trump, Elon Musk, Israel, and others, claiming mental and spiritual torture.
Jacob Angeli-Chansley said he will run for governor of Arizona
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However, he publicly turned on Trump last July over fallout surrounding the release of the Epstein files.
Angeli, 38, has now told The Times in a phone interview that he plans to fight a system he described as being “at war” with Americans and favoring the super-wealthy elite by running for governor of Arizona.
“All warfare is based on deception and the American people have had war declared on them,” Angeli said.
“Since I’m one of the only people that seem to have their wits about them and understand what’s actually going on in the world, it is up to me, as far as I’m concerned, to do something about these problems,” he added.
Angeli told the outlet that the Trump administration is “a corrupt disaster,” citing Trump’s resistance to release the Epstein files and his support for Israel.
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“It is the antithesis of everything that America needs right now,” he said. “The only thing that he did that I find remotely acceptable is pardoning J-Sixers, which he said he was going to do.
“What I’ve come to understand more than anything, dude, is that the Trump administration just lies, bro, because they’re Israel First, just like the Biden administration just lied because they were Israel First. We don’t have our own government.”
Asked for his thoughts on the U.S. capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a covert operation over the weekend, he said that Trump was “essentially using the American military to commit the armed robbery of a nation.”
In September, Angeli targeted Trump and a host of others in a bizarre 26-page lawsuit for $40 trillion.
Angeli commented on the capture of Maduro
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He filed the lawsuit in the Maricopa County Superior Court, claiming he was the rightful leader of the U.S. and appearing to accuse the National Security Agency (NSA) of leaking information from his computer that then went on to inform story elements of The Dark Knight and Avatar.
Other entities named in the lawsuit include Elon Musk’s X, the Federal Reserve, the state of Israel, T-Mobile, and Warner Bros. Studios.
The lawsuit sought $1 trillion for Angeli’s “personal, emotional, mental and spiritual torture and years worth of anguish.”
Angeli also demanded $38 trillion to pay off the U.S. government’s debt and $1 trillion to rebuild America’s infrastructure.
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In his conclusion, Angeli declared himself as the first president of the “New Constitutional Republic of the United States” and said his first act would be to pay off America’s debt by ordering the Federal Reserve to mint a $40 trillion, one-ounce gold coin.
In 2021, a court ordered psychological assessment diagnosed Angeli with “mental-health infirmities.”
While Angeli has vowed to run for Arizona governor, he previously failed in a bid to stand for a vacant Senate seat in the state in 2024, as he did not secure enough signatures in time to run.
“For clarity sake… I am not interested in politics… I am interested in saving my country, humanity & the planet from extinction. That is the direction we are heading if we don’t get new leadership,” he said in a text to The Times after the interview.
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