A prominent supporter of QAnon’s unproven conspiracy theories has been indicted for his involvement in the Washington Capitol riots.
Jacob Anthony Chansley, known as Jake Angeli, is in custody and faces several charges, including trespassing and disorderly conduct.
Chansley, who calls himself the shaman of QAnon, is supposedly the man pictured with the face painted and dressed in an animal skin and horns inside the building of Congress this Wednesday.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump , faces his second impeachment process, or impeachment, for their role in the incidents. In the first, the Republican majority in the Senate voted against, which allowed him to remain in office.
Democrats accuse Trump of having encouraged the assailants to take by force the seat of the US legislature in an episode that ended with 5 deaths.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States (FBI) has requested citizen collaboration to bring the assailants to justice .
What is QAnon, the group whose members participated in the assault on the Capitol ( and how it is replicated in Latin America) “He will never accept defeat”: this is how the last days in the White House of the presidency of Donald Trump are Chansley no has publicly commented on the allegations he faces.
The federal prosecutor in Washington DC reported in a statement that Chansley has been identifi Fallen like the man who appeared in the images broadcast by the media with horns on his head, dressed in a bear skin, and red, white and blue paint and with his chest uncovered.
“This individual carried a spear, approximately 6 feet (1. 83 meters) long, with a United States flag tied under the sheet. ”
The statement also reports the arrest of a man, a Florida resident. It is believed that he is the one who was photographed taking the lectern of the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
Adam Johnson, 36 years , is accused of various charges, including theft of government property and violent entry.
A man was photographed carrying off the lectern of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Also on the list of defendants released is West Virginia legislator Derrick Evans, who, allegedly posted a video of himself with Trump supporters outside and then entering the Congress building.
Evans was arrested on Friday and is also accused of violent entry and disorder in the Capitol, reported the Department of Justice.
So far , more than a dozen people have been indicted in the aftermath of the riots , including an Alabama man whom authorities found with 11 Molotov cocktails.
Trump will leave the presidency on 20 January, when his rival is scheduled to Joe Biden takes over as the new president. Democrats in the House of Representatives plan to file an impeachment indictment in Congress next Monday for “incitement to insurrection.”
The difficult position Vice President Mike Pence is in and why he became a key figure in the political crisis in USA A spokesperson The White House declared that such a measure at this point would only serve to sharpen the division in the United States, but the Democratic leaders assure that Trump has shown evidence of not being suitable for the position and have demanded the vice president, Mike Pence, to invoke the 36 United States Constitution to immediately relieve Trump.
Despite having distanced himself from him in recent days and the trickle of resignations in the Trump Administration in recent days, Pence has not shown signs of intending to give e It happened.
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