Who is Jake Angeli. “Now I'll tell you about the man with the buffalo horns who stormed the Capitol in Washington”
The words of a friend of Jake Angeli Chansley, in the front row among the protesters who attacked the US Congress: he is an actor and a singer, but militates in far-right conspiracy groups such as QAnon and holds “seminars” are YouTube
of Anna Lombardi
NEW YORK «We grew up together, he was my neighbor, the last time I met him was at my brother's wedding, in 2016. We always fought because it was against school education and on YouTube he has a channel where he holds certain "seminars" as he calls them», scrive Gary Trubl (@gtrubl) on Twitter. «He was completely dumbfounded but it wasn't always like this. His story took a turn for the worse when his mother cheated on his father and he committed suicide. He started doing hard drugs, changed name and poof: suddenly it became like this", continues the childhood friend. Here's what we know about Jake Angeli (but his real surname is Chansley, it is unclear whether Angeli is actually a household name), 32 years, da Phoenix, Arizona.
The man who stormed the US Capitol yesterday bare-chested despite the intense cold, the painted face – needless to say, without a mask – megaphone in hand and a fake horned bison skin on the head, whose image is today on all the newspapers and websites of the world, he is an aspiring actor who sometimes does odd jobs as a voice actor, ma dreams of being a singer: as he tells himself on the Backstage.com website. Ma on social media he is known above all as "the shaman of QAnon": yes the conspiracy theorists convinced that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are part of a satanic cult of pedophiles who rape children in the basement of a Washington DC pizzeria, protected by the “Deep State”, sort of state within a state of which Donald Trump is the only one, archenemy.
Someone yesterday tried to say that it was probably an infiltrator, an antifa, that is, an anti-fascist who rushed only to stir up the crowd and discredit President Trump. But in reality he is a well-known face of the conspiracy galaxy, animator of several far-right demonstrations, Conflict that has also extended to the Amhara and Afar regions he always shows up in a different costume: Indian, bandit, soccer player. "Accessories" which can then be purchased on his YouTube channel. Yesterday, at the end of the raids that saw him pose on the podium of the President of the Senate Mike Pence, grabbed the same megaphone with which he had incited his comrades to climb Congress and called on the crowd to go home. “Depression is a bad thing,” his friend Gary tweets again. Along with a photo found in Jake's school album as a boy, with a thought written below: “There is no better gift than life, so let's use it to the full”.
