Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) celebrated meeting Jacob Chansley, a convicted felon who participated in the Jan. 6 attacks and is better known as the QAnon Shaman.
On Monday, Greene shared a photo of her meeting with Chansley at Sunday's Turning Point Action conference.
"I was honored to meet Jake Chansley this weekend, and I want to explain why I say honored," Greene began, claiming the media "slandered him all over the world."
"The Biden regime's DOJ wrongfully prosecuted him for innocently and nonviolently walking through the Capital, and he was then treated horrifically in prisons even being held in solitary confinement for over 10 months just like many other J6'ers," she continued. "Yet when I spoke with Jake, he is remarkably positive, happy, forgiving, and determined."
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Greene said she was frustrated with Republicans who "refuse to do anything to help the J6'ers, while the federal government continues to tyrannically destroy their lives."
She painted Jan. 6 rioters as "nonviolent."
"Yet it's not really what J6'ers did that causes the DOJ to continue to persecute them, it's really about what they said on January 6th," Green opined. "It is cruel and unusual, actually shameful, the way this administration continues it's perversion of justice."
"Beyond the hat and the face paint is a person," she said of Chansley, "an American, who was wronged by the Democrat mouthpiece media, the Democrat administration, and stuck up weak Republican establishment, and I was honored to meet Jake because he seems to be a better person than all of them combined."
Chansley, however, did not receive praise from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who reportedly avoided the QAnon figure at the conference.
"Freaking coward!" Chansley yelled at Gaetz, according to reports.
