Jake Chansley -- An Update and a Prediction: Storm Clouds on the Horizon

Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive

This week’s story is a couple days late but my time has been occupied by my efforts to fashion a remedy for the wrong done to Jacob Chansley.

Paid subscribers are getting a sneak preview of something that hasn’t yet happened, but will shortly.

A new GiveSendGo account has been created to finance the legal effort to hold the Government accountable for its failure to produce the videos favorable to Jake prior to his sentencing hearing. I do not expect this to happen without a long and drawn-out fight. I’m prepared to bring in additional legal help — two attorneys have already signed on to the effort once the battle is fully joined. They are exceptional trial attorneys who have spent decades practicing in federal court and have no reluctance at all to enthusiastically take on DOJ in this and other cases. You will recognize one when his participation becomes public. The other is my “secret weapon” soon to be deployed into the fray.

Jake has been given information on these two attorneys and is enthusiastic about them joining the effort. He is 100% on board of this new fund, and will lend his own voice of support in the near future. For now he is not making any public comments while these matters play themselves out in the courts. Jake endorses the plan that any funds raised in excess of what is needed to support his legal efforts will be used to support the legal defenses of other J6 defendants and the January 6 Legal Defense Fund.

Here is a link to the new GiveSendGo account dedicated to the efforts on behalf of Jake.

Jake Chansley Legal Defense Fund

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As just about all my readers probably know, back on March 6, 2023, Fox News program host Tucker Carlson played Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera videos from inside the Capitol on January 6 that showed Jake Chansley calmly walking though various hallways and corridors of the Capitol, sometimes in the company of one or more U.S. Capitol Police Officers. He had several encounters with officers during his time in the building, but none involved any kind of physical altercation or hindrance by them of his presence.

Eleven months later Jake was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 41 months for his actions inside the Capitol.

Let’s consider for just a moment some of the claims the Government made about Jake without fear of having the CCTV videos contradict the narrative they were fashioning for punishing the “iconic image of the insurrection:”

The Government continued:

The CCTV videos broadcast by Tucker Carlson paint a different portrait of Jake and his time inside the Capitol. There are videos of him walking alone, walking in the company of two U.S. Capitol Police Officers, walking between and among a group of 6-7 Capitol Police Officers, and having these Officers open doors for him to enter particular locations, including the Senate Chamber.

That last small little detail wasn’t mentioned by the Government.

None of that changes the fact that he entered the Capitol through doors that had been forced open by other protesters who themselves had broken windows to get inside. There were loud alarms going off, and nothing about his entrance into the Capitol could be described as “normal.”

But that doesn’t excuse the use of inaccurate and irrelevant characterizations of him because of the regalia he was wearing and the attention it drew to him.

Did the Department of Justice seek a sentence of 51 months and describe him in the fashion they did because of how he looked on January 6?

Sure seems that way.