By Glynn Wilson –

Poor Richard. It’s not fair.

Richard Barnett, that is, the Arkansas redneck Trump supporting insurrectionist and domestic terrorist who was infamously photographed during the Capitol riot on January 6 with his feet propped up on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk.

He shouted at a federal judge during a virtual court appearance on Thursday saying it’s “not fair” that he remains behind bars awaiting trial, even though he’s been ruled a flight risk.

Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Ark., was complaining about his pretrial detention after U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper set the next court date for May.

“The government keeps dragging this out and letting everybody else out,” Barnett argued, before the judge abruptly called for a recess for Barnett to speak with his attorneys, according to a transcript of the hearing.

“This has been a bunch of crap,” Barnett yelled before the recess, according to a Daily Beast reporter on the virtual court hearing call.

After the break, the hearing continued uninterrupted, according to The Washington Post.

Barnett was arrested less than a week after the insurrection and entered a plea of not guilty.

Barnett is not unique in whining about how he’s being treated by federal authorities.

Some of the 300 charged with federal charges for their role in the violent breach of the Capitol have grumbled, including Texas flower shop owner Jenny Louise Cudd, who told Vanity Fair she was “canceled” in a reference to “cancel culture” and asked the court to allow her to go on vacation to Mexico.

Right. Flight risk?

After QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley, pictured shirtless in a bison headdress on Jan. 6, demanded improved conditions in jail as he awaits trial, claiming nonorganic food was against his religion.

Snowflake?

A federal judge ordered Chansley be moved to a jail in Virginia where he would be served organic food, according to court records.

Many of the rioters, including members of the Proud Boys, have bitched about not receiving a presidential pardon from Trump before he left office.

Barnett and the others have remained behind bars, with judges ruling they are a flight risk.

Barnett told federal agents on Jan. 8 that after the insurrection he drove back to Arkansas, turned off his phone’s location services, used only cash and kept his face covered, according to court records.

“He also commented that the agents may not find much at his house because he is a smart man,” prosecutors wrote in a memo in favor of pretrial detention.

Barnett told the agents he had recently removed his guns from his house before it was searched.

In photos of Barnett sitting in a chair in Pelosi’s office, a stun gun appeared to be clipped to his waist. Records identified by prosecutors indicate Barnett bought a 950,000-volt stun gun walking stick at a Bass Pro Shop in Arkansas five days before he traveled to Washington.

Surveillance video, photos and media interviews captured Barnett in Pelosi’s office for six minutes and his unabashed boasts later that he broke in and took mail from the office, according to authorities. In an interview, he showed off an envelope with Pelosi’s signature.

Barnett insisted he didn’t steal the mail, telling a reporter that he left a quarter and note with an expletive and his nickname “Bigo” on the desk.

“I did not steal it,” he said, according to a video the FBI obtained. “I bled on it because they were Mace-ing me and I couldn’t [expletive] see so I figured I am in her office. I got blood on her office.”

A grand jury indicted Barnett in January on seven counts, including disorderly conduct, obstruction of an official proceeding, and theft of government property.

More Arrests in Capitol Insurrection

The F.B.I. said on Thursday it had arrested a former State Department aide in the Trump administration on charges related to the Capitol breach, including unlawful entry, violent and disorderly conduct, obstructing Congress and law enforcement, and assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon.

Federico G. Klein, who federal investigators said in court documents was seen in videos of the riot resisting officers and assaulting them with a stolen riot shield, is the first member of the Trump administration to face criminal charges in connection with the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, according to the New York Times.

Klein worked on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and began working at the State Department just days after Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, according to a financial disclosure form he filed as an executive branch employee.

The F.B.I. said in a court document that it received a tip about Mr. Klein in January, on the day after it included his image in a poster seeking information about several people seen in the crowd that had stormed the Capitol. A tipster provided investigators with Mr. Klein’s Facebook account, and a different witness later contacted them to say that he knew the man in the poster as “Freddie Klein,” according to the document.

Based on this information, the F.B.I. determined that when Klein allegedly attacked Congress on Jan. 6 to help Mr. Trump unlawfully maintain power, he was still employed by the State Department and possessed a Top Secret security clearance.

Klein can be seen in video footage and other images dressed in a red “Make America Great Again” cap, slacks and a dress shirt as he tries to break past a line of Metropolitan Police officers in a tunnel near the west terrace.

“Klein quickly pushed his way to the front-left side of the crowd and to the doorway to the Capitol building, where he physically and verbally engaged with the officers holding the line,” the F.B.I. reported.

He was part of a mob that tried to push through the doors despite warnings by an officer to back up and used a “riot shield that apparently had been taken from an officer” to prevent the closing of the doors.

Klein was seen in other videos “calling back to the crowd behind him, ‘We need fresh people, we need fresh people’ multiple times.”

Dozens of right-wing extremists been accused of conspiring to attack Congress in order to stop the final Electoral College certification Joe Biden as president.

Many defendants have said that they acted at the behest of Mr. Trump, who falsely asserted over and over again that he won the November election that was riddled with “fraud,” a claim denied by his own Department of Justice.

The investigation is edging closer to Trump himself.

Last month, investigators began examining the communications of some right-wing extremists who had breached the Capitol to determine whether Roger J. Stone Jr., a close associate of the former president, had played any role in their plans to attack Congress.

In an opinion column in The Washington Post on Wednesday, columnist Dana Milbank finally got close to reporting what we have been reporting since Jan. 11, five days after the insurrection.

“At best, this was a catastrophic failure of government. At worst, political appointees and Trump loyalists at the Defense Department deliberately prevented the National Guard from defending the Capitol against a seditious mob.

“The man ultimately responsible for the delay, Christopher Miller, had been a White House aide before Donald Trump installed him as acting defense secretary in November, as the president began his attempt to overturn his election defeat. Miller did Trump’s political bidding at another point during his 10-week tenure, forcing the National Security Agency to install a Republican political operative as chief counsel….

“Curiously, the Pentagon claims Miller’s authorization came at 4:32 — 15 minutes after Trump told his ‘very special’ insurrectionists to ‘go home in peace.’

“Was Miller waiting for Trump’s blessing before defending the Capitol?”

Did the Pentagon wait for Trump’s approval before defending the Capitol?

Clearly Trump incited the insurrection and obstructed efforts to protect the Capitol — while he was still acting commander-in-chief.

He was impeached for it.

Where is the prosecutor ready and willing to charge him for his crimes?