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    8 hours ago

    Also among those pardoned was one of the riot’s most recognisable figures, Jacob Chansley, the self-styled QAnon Shaman, who was released from jail in 2023 after serving 27 months of his 41-month jail sentence.

    He told the BBC that he heard the news from his lawyer while he was at the gym.

    He added: “I walked outside and I screamed ‘freedom’ at the top of my lungs and then gave a good Native American war cry.”

    Excuse me what??? What the actual fuck, he was at the gym? These fuckers do not hear themselves and have no sense of irony or shame. Eta: unclear, meant he already has freedoms many don’t and he certainly did not deserve