The Missouri-based lawyer representing Jacob Chansley (AKA the “QAnon Shaman”) has offered a highly…um…unorthodox defense of his client.
“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.”


