One of the first questions Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, faced during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday was whether he was a “follower or promoter of QAnon.” Patel’s response to committee chairman Senator Chuck Grassley was unequivocal: “I have publicly rejected outright QAnon baseless conspiracy theories or any other baseless conspiracy theories.” This isn’t true. Patel’s claim that he was not a promoter of QAnon is undermined by years of his very public and overt promotion of the QAnon community. Patel, along with...

Jacob Chansley, the so-called “QAnon Shaman” whose headdress of horns and makeup made him one of the more prominent faces of the Capitol riot, declared he was going to purchase firearms after being pardoned by President Donald Trump. “I JUST GOT THE NEWS FROM MY LAWYER... I GOT A PARDON BABY!” he wrote on X Monday. “THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!! NOW I AM GONNA BUY SOME MOTHA FU*KIN GUNS!!! I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!” “J6ers are getting released & JUSTICE HAS COME... EVERYTHING done in the dark WILL...

One of the convicted Jan. 6 rioters knows exactly what he plans to do now that he has been pardoned of a felony charge by President Donald Trump. For Jacob Chansley, the spear-carrying, bare-chested, horned fur hat-clad Capitol riot participant known as the “QAnon Shaman,” that’s buying guns. Chansley had been sentenced to prison for obstruction of an official proceeding. He was released early from federal prison in March 2023. Trump on Monday issued sweeping pardons of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes connected to Jan. 6, stating that...

The man known as the “QAnon Shaman,” who served a 41-month prison sentence for taking part in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol building, thanked President Donald Trump for pardoning him and said he’s going to buy some guns. “I JUST GOT THE NEWS FROM MY LAWYER…I GOT A PARDON BABY! THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!” Jacob Chansley wrote Monday in a post on X. “NOW I AM GONNA BUY SOME MOTHA (expletive) GUNS!!! I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!” “J6ers are getting released & JUSTICE HAS...

The face of the January 6 Capitol Riot and self-proclaimed "QAnon shaman" Jake Angeli-Chansley celebrated his pardon from President Donald Trump with a telling social media update. "I JUST GOT THE NEWS FROM MY LAWYER... I GOT A PARDON BABY! THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!! NOW I AM GONNA BUY SOME MOTHA FU*KIN GUNS!!!" Angeli-Chansley wrote in a post shared on Monday. "I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!! J6ers are getting released & JUSTICE HAS COME... EVERYTHING done in the dark WILL come to light!" he continued. Angeli-Chansley is one...

U.S. Capitol rioter Jacob Chansley, otherwise known as the “QAnon Shaman,” said on Monday that he’s going to buy some guns after being pardoned by President Trump. “I JUST GOT THE NEWS FROM MY LAWYER…I GOT A PARDON BABY! THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!” Chansley, who was photographed inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 with a horned helmet, painted face and bare chest, wrote on X. “NOW I AM GONNA BUY SOME MOTHA FU*KIN GUNS!!! I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!” “J6ers are getting released & JUSTICE HAS COME…EVERYTHING...

Most Senate Democrats would likely prefer to derail Pam Bondi’s prospective attorney general nomination, but given the size of the Republican majority and the GOP’s eagerness to satisfy Donald Trump’s demands, Democrats are well aware of the Florida Republican’s confirmation chances. It was against that backdrop that Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised an unexpected subject during Bondi’s hearing: The Illinois senator asked whether she was aware of the fact that Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, had expressed support for the...

President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA allies repeatedly accuse mainstream media outlets of spreading "fake news" — which, Trump critics argue, is projection in light of all the conspiracy theories that MAGA Republicans promote. In an article published the day after Christmas, Salon's Amanda Marcotte stresses that "disinformation" and a "poor information ecosystem" played a key role in Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

QAnon—the conspiracy movement that claims Donald Trump is waging a secret war against the Deep State, which is protecting a group of Satan-worshipping pedophile elites who run Hollywood and the Democratic Party—has never been stronger. Despite silence from the eponymous Q, a supposed government insider, for more than four years—there were several purported Q posts in 2022, but there is significant reason to question their authenticity—QAnon beliefs are now more widespread in American society than when Q posted their last unquestionably canonical “drop” on December 8, 2020.