Richard “Bigo” Barnett, who famously propped his feet on a desk in then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol suite during the January 6 riots, urged jurors to consider his behavior the actions of a “fucking idiot” — not a criminal, Politico reports.
Said Barnett: “I’m going to suffer the consequences, but I hope they see I didn’t break the law and acted like a fucking idiot.”


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