He trusted the plan.
sham, shaman, shame — they are all pretty close together.
Not totally convinced this shaman is a loose-cannon patriotic type, he could be some kind of agent. What jail is he in? Or where did Tucker Carlson go to interview him one day in jail, and where is he the rest of the time?
But it could well be that he was targetted as a visible “lunatic” type to make the political protest look unhinged.
In any case, half the country evidently knows this was all theater and farce, and the other half may know it at some level but they accept it as a means to an end.
There cannot be treason against an illegal government.