January 7, 2021, 1:58 pm*
The pro-Trump insurrectionist who was photographed with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the storming of the Capitol Wednesday has been identified as Richard “Bigo” Barnett, and people have found his Facebook account.
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There, where he goes by “George Reincarnated Patton,” he posted a statement in which he literally calls himself a white nationalist, reasoning that he is both white and a nationalist.
He also posted a photo of himself in December with a large firearm saying that he’s “not afraid” to go out “kicking and screaming, covered in someone else’s blood” in a gruesome characterization of the miracle of childbirth.
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“I am white. There is no denying that,” he wrote on January 2. “I am a nationalist. I put my nation first. So that makes me a white nationalist.”
Technically, a white nationalist is defined as a person who believes that the nation they live in should be reserved only for white people, but we have a sneaking suspicion that Barnett understands this.
Barnett went on to describe his friends in colors including “black, brown, cream, etc.” and declaring that since they’re all nationalists too, they must include “creamy nationalists.” And if you’re not a nationalist, instead believing that people who happened to be born on the other side of imaginary lines in the dirt also matter, “get the f— out of our nation.”
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Barnett, along with nearly everyone else who stormed the Capitol that day, was allowed to leave the building peacefully without being arrested so that he could give interviews to the media.
“We marched down there. They start tear-gassing us. They start roughing up our people. It pissed some people off,” he told 5NEWS of Arkansas, where Barnett resides.
“They went to the front door, and they started demanding to be let inside. I wasn’t even up there at that point. I was climbing the steps to see what was going on. When I got to the top, they had breached the doors and were trying to get in.”
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He also confessed to taking one of Pelosi’s personal envelopes from her desk, claiming that he accidentally bled on it, and then left a quarter behind because he’s “not a thief.” He did, however, admit to leaving the House Speaker a note calling her a “b—h.”
Twitter users also quickly found that Barnett had received a PPP loan of $9,300 last year, information that was verified by The Daily Dot.
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The guy in the right is Richard Barnett of Gravette, Arkansas and he’s so oppressed that he got $9,300 in PPP money from the government he just looted. pic.twitter.com/lcOzs2QNRG
— #wearamask
(@ifstonefan) January 7, 2021
There has not yet been any word as to whether Barnett will face charges for his role in the insurrection, but multiple people identified in footage and photos have been fired from their jobs already. Barnett, however, maintains that he did nothing wrong.
“I didn’t do anything. I didn’t breach the doors. I got shoved in. I didn’t mean to be there. Hell. I was walking around looking for a bathroom.”
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It will likely be hard to defend a claim that Barnett thought Nancy Pelosi’s chair was a toilet.
*First Published: January 7, 2021, 1:57 pm
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