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Rioter Who Put His Feet Up on Pelosi’s Desk is Being a Troublemaker and Really Angering the Judge

This guy feels pretty damned entitled.

Richard “Bigo” Barnett is most notorious for being the guy in the picture that surely has gone around the globe as the rioter who helped himself to a seat in Speaker Pelosi’s chair, kicking back, and taking a nice break from the hard and dangerous coup attempt. He also leafed through Pelosi’s mail, bled on it, and wrote the “Biadt” on the envelope, the one that many people say is actually b*tch. After all, he left a quarter on the desk because “She’s not worth it.”

Despite proving himself to be dangerous and unafraid of authorities, the judge still gave Biggo an extremely lenient condition for pre-trial release (After he was allowed out on April 28th). He was ordered to stay within a 50-mile radius of his home in a very lenient “house arrest.” Law enforcement has been to his home twice, though the court papers haven’t established if it was due to anything “bad.”

But that wasn’t good enough for Biggo. He wanted to attend a car swap meet 200 miles from his home. The judge said “No.”

The government argued, that he has a large piece of property where he can work on classic cars and then noted:

“Taking advantage of that permission, the defendant held a birthday party on his property/ Local law enforcement has been called by third parties to the defendant’s home twice, for unverified reasons. “On a different occasion, a police report was taken in a different county from an individual claiming the defendant harassed him in connection with a business deal, but the matter was deemed a civil dispute,”

“Harrassing” is not a word you want to see describing your behavior unless you want to go back to jail. And yet his attorney argued a rather startlingly strong statement:

“To be clear, Mr. Barnett did celebrate his birthday at home with approximately 10-12 people who were not at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Nowhere in the conditions of his release is there a prohibition against this. The fact that the government is trying to convert this into some kind of nefarious behavior is demonstrative of the fact that government will stop at nothing to make Mr. Barnett’s life a living hell.

But the judge denied the request to loosen the very lenient 50 mile condition. The court said it would “consider” any requests to leave the 50 mile condition if it was for legitimate employment.

We aren’t sure the guy is anything but legitimately anti-Democrats and “RINOs”

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Jason
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