Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer is “Grateful” for Donald Trump After Pardoning
This isn’t surprising and, normally, I wouldn’t even talk about this clown or any of the other ones who super support the circus that is our current administration. But, I couldn’t get over the fact that Jon Schaffer, founding guitarist of Iced Earth, used the word “grateful” to describe his feelings for the grand master Cheeto himself Donald Trump. As a refresher, Schaffer was among the 1,500 or so morons who stormed the capitol back on January 6, 2021 and then somehow got pardoned for it, since we live in a lawless society.
Schaffer wanted to make sure people heard “his side” of things for whatever reason, so he recently sat down with Andy Marcantel and Marc J. Victor of Attorneys On Retainer to give the whole spiel, and give a long ass testimony for the Attorneys For Freedom law firm. If you feel so inclined, you can watch the long as hell interview below.
Apparently Schaffer wasn’t that politically active prior to the storming, though he does emphasize his team America fuck yeah-ass view of our country (as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net):
“I’m very pro founding principle America, and we’ve obviously drifted pretty far from that. So that’s bothered me for a long time, for whatever reason. It probably has a lot to do with my father and studying. And I just love the story of the founding of this country. As imperfect as we are, it’s the best. And we can be better — we can definitely be better than what we are now.
“I don’t like to get into the left-right part of this, ’cause that’s not where my passion is,” Jon explained. “It’s pro freedom. And I want our country and the world to get back to that, and that’s what I’ve tried to express. And a lot of people have put me in a box of being a right-wing extremist and this kind of stuff. And I don’t consider freedom to be extreme.”
Schaffer’s attorney, the Marc J. Victor that he happens to be speaking with in the interview, caped as all hell for Schaffer, pleading to the federal judge to relieve him of the “two months of hell” he experienced while he was detained. He alleged that his client was being targeting while in jail with death threats and poo fights while behind bars. No one wants shit thrown at them, but compared to the hell experienced by people who didn’t actually do anything, he got off the hook relatively unscathed.
“It was intense. I mean, it was definitely intense. I was in general population for a couple days, but because I was all over the news, they moved me into solitary.
“I’ve been through a lot of intense things in my life, lived hardcore, being a teenager splitting from home, starting a heavy metal band and doing what you’ve gotta do to make that happen was intense. But dude, nothing compared to J6,” Schaffer continued. “So it was a crucible. And I’m thankful for it. I feel blessed in so many ways because you find out who really loves you, who are the parasites, who are the ones that really love you. And I’m blessed, man, ’cause there were a lot of people that stood beside me, even if they didn’t publicly. And I get that, but that doesn’t matter… It was a blessing, the entire thing was, because it got me… I stepped off the hamster wheel of the music business and was able to look at my life and reflect, and for that, as brutal as it was, that time of self-reflection, which is all you can do… I mean, it took probably three weeks for me to be able to get a Bible. We weren’t allowed to go to the library. They denied us access to the law library. There was literally nothing. And it’s been an incredible journey, and it’s life-changing in all of the good ways. And that’s what I can say about it.”
If we’re being honest, Schaffer and everyone else got the fuck off easy. Since he agreed to be a rat and give whatever info he could on the Oath Keepers and other idiots so he could get a lighter sentence, he only ended up getting three years of probation, 120 hours of community service, and having to pay $1,200 in restitution and related fines.
On his pardon, Schaffer doubled the hell down with the nonsense:
“It was a huge deal. And I have to say that’s what makes me think Trump is not your regular politician, because there’s so many promises made and almost none of them ever kept. And that was just an amazing thing. Because I know some people there, I’m sure, did some bad things, and what I did was stupid, that’s for sure. We believed that our… And I think our country’s in serious trouble — I mean, serious, serious trouble — but at that point, and you gotta preface it with the whole summer of love and all that; that’s the mindset that people were in. But I’ll always be grateful to President Trump for this, big time, and I know everybody else will be too.”
He did address the snitching though, and it doesn’t make him look any better.
“It’s quite possibly the hardest part of it. As much wreckage as the whole thing caused, and I own my behavior, so I’m not the victim here. I screwed up, that’s for sure. But the fallout — there was a lot of that with family and friends, business, all that stuff — but I think that was the thing that bothered me the most. ‘Cause the people that know me, they know my honor’s a big deal. My word is a big deal.”
If only his word meant something more.
