The attorney for Jacob Chansley (aka the Q Shaman) is on at least his second defense of the insurrectionist.

A previous defense was that Chansley would not have been there on 1/6 and
would not have done what he had done were it not for Trump's words. This defense failed, not because Trump's words weren't a factor but because "just following orders" is not a valid excuse for one's behavior.

Now the attorney is pursuing a mental health defense for Chansley. Speaking
to TPM, the attorney said: "A lot of these defendants -- and I'm going to
use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully -- but they’re all [expletive] short-bus people. These are people with brain damage, they’re [expletive] retarded, they’re on e [expletive] spectrum."

Ouch. But he wasn't done yet: "But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers -- they’re part of our country. These aren’t
bad people, they don’t have prior criminal histo. [Expletive], they were subjected to four-plus years of [expletive] propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since [expletive] Hitler."

This is the guy *defending* a Trump supporter.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/capitol-rioters-trump-defense-comes-up-again -and-again-will-it-make-a-difference

Jeff.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken, who indeed was a racist thereby proving himself right.

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