WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: A protester screams "Freedom" inside the Senate chamber after the U.S. Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building during demonstrations in the nation's capital. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Jacob Chansley, who is known as the “QAnon Shaman,” said he would be willing to testify that he was incited to storm the Capitol on January 6 by former President Donald Trump, according to his attorney Albert Watkins.
Watkins confirmed that Chansley would be willing to testify during the Senate impeachment trial.
Trump was impeached by the House for a second time for inciting the riots at the Capitol, making him the only president to be impeached twice in U.S. history.
Before the attack, Trump made remarks encouraging a group of his supporters on the National Mall to march to the Capitol and demand that Congress stop the certification of President Joe Biden‘s electoral victory.
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Hundreds of rioters, including Chansley, were photographed inside the Capitol building. Chansley was arrested on January 9 and later charged with civil disorder, obstruction of official proceedings and disorderly conduct in a restricted building.
Chansley told investigators that he attended the riot specifically “at the request of the president that all ‘patriots’ come to D.C. on January 6.”
Watkins said his client “felt he was betrayed by the president” after the riot occurred.
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