‘QAnon Shaman’ Attorney Won’t Apologize

Albert Watkins, the attorney for Jacob Chansley, the Capitol rioter popularly known as the “QAnon Shaman,” refused in a CNN interview to take back the derogatory remarks he made about the mental state of those who participated in the January 6 insurrection.

Said Watkins: “For five months, I acted professionally, I talked to the people that needed to know, I made sure that the Department of Justice had the opportunity firsthand to meet with my client… to have them understand and appreciate the condition, the special needs of my client. I let them talk to my client while he is confined, not once, not twice, but multiple times, and I got nowhere.”

He added: “All I had to do was get vulgar, get vulgar in a short sound bite driven quote that permitted this very issue to come to the fore.”