Comello defense attorneys would eventually file new court documents to illustrate how deeply influenced their client was by QAnon and that he was in no mental state to stand trial, as ABC News explains. Those court documents said Comello believed then-President Trump would support his decision to kill Cali and that Cali had connections to the “Deep State.” Also according to those documents, Comello’s interest in QAnon had turned from an interest to an obsession a short time before the Cali shooting took place.
As mentioned by ABC News, in Comello’s court appearance he had QAnon, “MAGA Forever,” and other phrases written on his hand in blue ink. He pleaded not guilty on all charges. Those court documents also said that Comello “… [B]elieved that he had been given secret knowledge about the Deep State and that Q was communicating directly with him so that the defendant could play a grand role in the conflict.”
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“Q” refers to the alleged mastermind behind the QAnon website. Prior to Cali’s death, Camello also attempted so-called “citizen’s arrest” of then New York Mayor Bill De Blasio, as well as California Democratic politicians Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff, for similar reasons.
