QAnon Shaman sues Donald Trump and demands USD 40 trillion
Jacob Chansley, known as the "QAnon Shaman" due to his horns, fur and painted face during the storming of the US Congress on January 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump and a number of organizations for USD 40 trillion. It was Trump who pardoned him in January 2025 after 41 months in prison.
Acting as his own lawyer, Chansley filed the lawsuit on Monday in the Superior Court of Maricopa County (Arizona), Phoenix New Times writes.
His 26-page complaint, written in one continuous paragraph and more like a manifesto, contains accusations of violation of his rights guaranteed by the US Constitution. Among the defendants, he names Trump, the Federal Reserve, the National Security Agency (NSA), the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the State of Israel, Elon Musk's X Company, T-Mobile, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Warner Bros. film studio.
The main claims of the lawsuit:
- the central banking system and the Federal Reserve are unconstitutional;
- the US government is guilty of treason because it puts the interests of foreign financiers above the interests of Americans;
- the National Security Agency (NSA) monitored him daily on the basis of the "Patriot Act" - a law passed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which significantly expanded the powers of the intelligence agencies to combat terrorism;
- "all radio stations and most of their DJs are part of the intelligence community";
- a scene in The Dark Knight (2008) and plot details in Avatar (2009) were "stolen from his writings," which he claims proves NSA spying;
- that the agency "catfished" him on Facebook - that is, pretended to be someone else, in this case actress Michelle Rodriguez, whom Chansley calls his "famous crush";
- that he was offered to "secretly work with NASA on extraterrestrial matters" because his "shamanic beliefs" supposedly made him an "ideal candidate";
- that the government stole more than USD 100,000 in cryptocurrency from him.
"These seemingly trivial facts are deliberately made to appear unimportant," wrote Chansley about the NSA spying, "but if someone knew that I had written a few months earlier, these details would have been obvious to a sharp mind."
Chansley demands that only two laws be preserved:
- The Bill of Rights - the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, which guarantee basic freedoms (freedom of speech, religion, the right to bear arms, protection from unreasonable searches, etc.);
- the original US Constitution.
He also claims that Trump personally sent him a letter two days after the storming of the Capitol, and that the secret services allegedly tried to use his "shamanic abilities" to make contacts "outside this world," Bild writes.