Cue Linda Ronstadt’s “Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me!” Jan 6th insurrectionist Richard Barnard tells the court sentencing him the following:
And if this is true, what the court sentenced him to is not even a slap on the wrist:
Barnard was sentenced on Friday to 12 months probation, 30 days of home confinement, 60 hours of community service, and $500 restitution, according to the Department of Justice.
So what did Barnard do on Jan 6th? I’m so glad you asked. Here it is in all of its “glory.”
WARNING: This will make your head hurt! He had a partner in all of this by the name of Witcher.
In a video from inside the Capitol obtained by the FBI, Witcher appeared to falsely believe that he and Barnard were in the White House.
“I am in the White House! We crashed this. Our house! We did it, family, we did it! We did it! We’re in the White House!” Witcher said.
Other Trump supporters also appeared to believe they had stormed the White House, where then-President Donald Trump was living at the time.
Barnard and Witcher thought they were storming the White House on Jan 6th.
Witcher clarified in an interview with FBI agents that he was so “emotional and invested” in the moment, he temporarily forgot which building he was in. In his second video, he corrected himself. “We’re in the rotunda. We’re in the rotunda. Our house! Our house!”...
Both Witcher and Barnard agreed to be interviewed by FBI agents. During Witcher’s interview, he said that he took part in the failed insurrection because he believed that free speech is being censored all across the nation, and that most of America is “tone deaf to discussion.” He hoped that the protest would be peaceful and help facilitate discussion.
Barnard told agents that it still felt good to have been at the Capitol and that it was a good experience up until the moment he entered the building. Both men allowed investigators to examine their cellphones and recover the evidence that they had deleted.
Both of these morons are former Marines.
I suppose it is true that Barnard had a six figure income job. There have been plenty of stupid people who were overpaid. It could be true. But given that the two didn’t even know where they were, I have my doubts.
Barnard felt good about what they were doing, until they entered the Capitol Building. And it was somewhere at this moment that Barnard had an epiphany. And he and Witcher still stood for a selfie.
Yeah. Right. I believe that.
Frankly, I hope it is true that Barnard has lost a good paying job and his retirement. I’m not sure how that would happen though about the retirement. I think criminal records sorta kind of ruin your credit rating, but I have never gotten anything but speeding tickets in my “criminal past.”
But otherwise, these two fucking idiots have gotten off easy.
