{"id":601066,"date":"2021-07-23T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601066"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:05:33","slug":"qanon-shaman-reportedly-negotiating-plea-deal-following-mental-health-diagnosis-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/qanon-shaman-reportedly-negotiating-plea-deal-following-mental-health-diagnosis-lawyer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018QAnon Shaman\u2019 Reportedly Negotiating Plea Deal Following Mental Health Diagnosis, Lawyer Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fqanon-shaman-reportedly-negotiating-plea-deal-following-mental-health-diagnosis-lawyer-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601066&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"37.194868662187\">\n<p>The \u201cQAnon Shaman\u201d who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 while shirtless and wearing a horned headdress is negotiating a possible plea deal with prosecutors, his attorney said.<\/p>\n<p>Defense lawyer Albert Watkins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/exclusive-qanon-shaman-plea-negotiations-after-mental-health-diagnosis-lawyer-2021-07-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Reuters in an interview that officials at the Federal Bureau of Prisons diagnosed his client, Jacob Chansley, with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety. Watkins added that Chansley\u2019s mental conditions likely worsened while he was held in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/03\/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-donald-trump-capitol-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solitary confinement<\/a> at a Virginia jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs he spent more time in solitary confinement \u2026 the decline of his acuity was noticeable, even to an untrained eye,\u201d Watkins told Reuters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7243603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7243603\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7243603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-162x120.jpg 162w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-620x460-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-768x570-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-1536x1139-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-2048x1519-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-190x142.jpg 190w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230452980-70x52.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7243603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Chansley confronts police at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. (SAUL LOEB\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chansley was one of the most recognizable rioters in the Capitol, and was an adamant supporter of QAnon, the conspiracy that casts former President Donald Trump as a savior and Democrats as satanic pedophiles. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/18\/albert-watkins-qanon-shaman-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018They\u2019re On The Goddamn Spectrum\u2019: QAnon Shaman Attorney Implies His Client Is \u2018F*cking Retarded,\u2019 Has \u2018Brain Damage\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He faces <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/04\/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-capitol-riot-disappointed-trump-pardon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple charges<\/a>, including civil disorder and obstructing an official proceeding. Watkins did not reveal the charges to which Chansley was preparing to plead guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins added that Chansley was diagnosed similarly in 2006 when he served in the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cQAnon Shaman\u201d who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 while shirtless and wearing a horned headdress is negotiating a possible plea deal with prosecutors, his attorney said. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}