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The infamous QAnon shaman has filed a $40 trillion lawsuit against President Trump.
Jacob Chansley, better known as the 'QAnon Shaman, has filed a bizarre $40 trillion lawsuit against Donald Trump and numerous other high-profile targets.
Chansley became one of the most recognisable figures from the 6 January Capitol attack when he stormed the building wearing a horned headdress and face paint. QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory movement that claims Trump is secretly fighting a global elite involved in child sex trafficking.
The group is believed to have first started in 2017 after an anonymous poster alleged that they had a level of US security approval known as 'Q clearance'.
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Chansley was a prominent supporter of these theories before his arrest and conviction.
Now, in an extraordinary legal filing, Chansley claims he is the rightful president of the United States and is demanding $40 trillion in damages from Trump and a long list of other defendants including Elon Musk's X Corp, T-Mobile, and Warner Bros, the World Bank and the National Security Agency.
In the filing, Chansley declares himself the 'true' American president and argues that the nation should operate under only two laws: the Bill of Rights and the original Constitution.
The 26-page document presented as a single paragraph claims that an elite conspiracy will undermine the Constitution. The QAnon shaman also proposes printing a one-ounce gold coin valued at $40 trillion to eliminate the country's national debt.
In other sections of his filing, Chansley alleges that the plots for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight and James Cameron's Avatar were stolen from his own writings.
Meanwhile, the conspiracy theorist also claimed the National Security Agency impersonated actress Michelle Rodriguez to manipulate him into using his 'shamanic' abilities to deal with 'other-worldly matters.'
He also upholds that Trump personally emailed him just two days after the Capitol Riots in 2021.
Chansley was convicted of obstructing an official proceeding due to his participation in the January riots, where Trump supporters attempted to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. He was later pardoned by Trump, alongside 1,500 other individuals, in January 2025 for his crime.
However, Chansley rescinded his support for Trump over the president's refusal to release the Epstein files.
Trump has recently blamed the FBI for inciting the Capitol riot, claiming that there were 274 federal agents hidden in the crowds.
During his speech that day, supporters could be heard chanting 'invade the Capitol,' 'fight for Trump,' and 'take the Capitol.'
