The Donald Trump supporter who sat with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the Capitol Building riot has been arrested.
Richard Barnett, the Arkansas supporter of Mr Trump pictured in the House Speaker’s office, was arrested and charged with entering and remaining on restricting grounds, violent entry, and theft of public property, said the Justice Department.
Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, had boasted that he took a personalised envelope from Ms Pelosi’s desk and left her a quarter and a “nasty note.”
Barnett claimed that he and “politely” knocked on the Democrat’s office door but was swept inside by a group of rioters.
“I’ll probably be telling them this is what happened all the way to the DC jail,” he later told the New York Times.
Authorities have also charged a West Virginia lawmaker who recorded and then deleted a video of himself storming the Capitol in connection with the rioting.
Republican Derrick Evans has been charged in a criminal complaint with entering a restricted area and entering the US Capitol, according to Ken Kohl, of the DC US attorney’s office.
His lawyer has claimed the politician was at the event to “engage in peaceful protest, activism and amateur journalism.”
