Richard Barnett, the pardoned January 6 participant who was photographed with his feet on Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) desk, told Newsmax on Thursday that he had “no regrets” about the incident.
“Oh man, what a great time to be alive. You know, I’m so happy I could be a part of it,” he told Newsmax host Greg Kelly. “I’ve had a lot of anger issues to work through. I mean, I’ve been through hell. But I’m telling you what, I wouldn’t give it back for anything.”
“Now let me take a look at you at that desk, and by the way, this is one of the iconic images of January 6th, and some people are horrified by it,” replied Kelly. “You say you’re glad all of this happened. Tell us why. How did this turn out to be a good thing in the end?”
Barnett answered, “Myself and over 1,600 other J6ers showed up that day for Trump because he asked us to be there, and as a point in our country, I’m hoping that that was one of the reasons that the rest of America woke up and saw the corruption and destruction that was happening to our country.”
He continued, “As hard as it’s been, as much as it would have been nice for it not to have happened, it had to happen. You know, I have no regrets.”
Asked about the charges he received for stealing an envelope that was on Pelosi’s desk, Barnett said, “I need to have some conversations with DOGE because that envelope anywhere else would have been about a 10 cent envelope, but apparently because the government bought it it was a $20 envelope. I left 25 cents on the – you might wanna bleep this – I left 25 cents on the bitch’s desk.”
“Uh oh,” Kelly reacted to the curse word.
Barnett carried on, “…you know, basically to pay for that envelope ’cause I had bled on it, and I didn’t feel good about leaving it behind. They made a huge issue out of it. You know, I paid for it, I didn’t know that the government was wasting our money to the point the taxpayers ha paid $20 for an empty envelope, you know, but so be it.”
Barnett was sentenced to 54 months in prison in May 2023 after being found guilty of multiple charges, including entering a restricted building with a dangerous weapon and theft of government property, before he was pardoned along with 1,500 other January 6 prisoners and defendants by President Donald Trump this month.
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