Who is the horned man who broke into the United States Capitol?



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Following a speech by outgoing President Donald Trump, in which he promised he would “never give in”, Trump supporters charged the US Capitol building, protesting the results of the November 2020 presidential election.

The prominent figure among the protesters who stormed the United States Capitol today was the tattooed man without a shirt wearing a fur hat with horns, face paint and a megaphone.

Looking like a cross between Davy Crockett and a Native American, the 32-year-old is a staunch Trump supporter from Arizona and a familiar face at rallies and protests.

He is Jake Angeli, an actor and voice-over artist who also goes by the name QAnon Shaman.

QAnon conspiracy theorists believe that Donald Trump is in a secret war against elite Satan-worshiping pedophiles in government, business, and the media who will one day be arrested and executed.

Angeli and others dressed in various ways as frontiersmen, bandits, soldiers, or simply wore MAGA hats as they overwhelmed the police and made their way to the Capitol.

Jake Angeli yells inside the Senate House in Washington.  Photo / Getty Images
Jake Angeli yells inside the Senate House in Washington. Photo / Getty Images

It was a deliberate violation to interrupt Congress while it was in the process of counting state electoral votes to officially confirm the electoral victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

Some Republicans have wrongly claimed that the protesters, and Angeli in particular, are members of the far-left group Antifa.

Angeli, a regular protester outside her home state capital Phoenix, gave an interview to Central Arizona last year blaming the media for criticizing Trump and inflating the dangers of the coronavirus.

“I think it is important for the president of the United States to know … that there are good patriotic Americans who see the things that he is going through,” Angeli told the newspaper.

“And they’re willing to stand up and say ‘Hey, I see what you’re going through and I salute you, thanks for doing your job.’

Angeli said there had been “a lot of hysteria … which was completely unnecessary” about the global number of coronavirus cases in the United States.

Angeli regularly appears in disguise at pro-Trump events, displaying her tattoos that include depictions of the president’s Mexico border wall and sometimes holding a sign that reads “Q sent me.”

He has yelled at passersby “Do you all know who Q is?” and explained that Q “was a government agent who wanted to ‘take back the country’ from pedophiles and globalists.”

Jake Angeli screams
Jake Angeli yells “Freedom” inside the Senate chamber after the United States Capitol was raped by a mob. Photo / Getty Images

In a since deleted acting profile of Angeli on backstage.com, he is described as adept at singing, screenwriting, public speaking, and accents.

Bald and bearded, he was photographed against a backdrop of First Nations objects, such as a dream catcher, an ax and a drum.

Angeli’s appearance in her horned hat led people to nickname him Jamiroquai, after the lead singer of English funk band Jay Kay, whose array of elaborate hats includes one similarly shaped.

On one of Angeli’s Facebook pages, she is pictured shaking hands with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, during a visit by the president’s personal attorney to Arizona.

Angeli has captioned the image. “I have to shake Rudy’s hand … what an honor to be here.

“Hold the line patriots! America will prevail, we will stop the theft! Because as always, God wins!”

Hours before the violence on Capitol Hill in which a pro-Trump supporter was shot and killed, Giuliani encouraged his supporters to hold a “trial by combat.”



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