Summer Concepcion is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man known as the “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Libertarian candidate in the battleground state’s 8th Congressional District. Rep. Debbie Lesko. R-Ariz., announced last month that she won’t seek re-election in the district. Chansley stood out among the Capitol rioters by appearing shirtless with face paint, wearing a furry headdress with horns and carrying a U.S. flag affixed to a spear and a bullhorn.
” Chansley was among the initial group of rioters to enter the building, and used a bullhorn “to rile up the crowd and demand that lawmakers be brought out,” the sentencing memo said. Chansley shouted obscenities in the Senate gallery and climbed the chamber’s dais, the memo said. He photographed himself there and refused officers’ orders to leave and left a note that read: “It’s Only A Matter of Time.
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