Newsweek reports:
“QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley claims that former President Donald Trump used social media and “public propaganda” to “effectively groom” his followers into believing conspiracy theories. Chansley, also known by his stage name Jake Angelli, argued that he was one of millions tricked by the former president in a motion seeking pretrial release.
“For years during the Trump administration, the President honed and routinely utilized his mass communication means to effectively groom millions of Americans with respect to his policies, protocols, beliefs and overwhelming fixation on all matters conspiratorial,” Chansley’s attorney Albert Watkins wrote in the motion.
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QAnon Shaman: Donald Trump “groomed” me and millions of others to believe conspiracy theories for years https://t.co/5qeeyMxImx
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