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The photos of Bigo Barnett kicked back in an office chair with his feet on the desk quickly became among the most infamous to emerge early on out of the Capitol riot A federal jury in Washington returned a guilty verdict Monday against a rioter seen in images from the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol putting his feet up on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. The photos of Richard "Bigo" Barnett kicked back in an office chair with his feet on the desk quickly became among the most infamous to emerge early on out of the Capitol riot -- as emblematic of the pro-Trump mob ransacking the nation's seat of government. Within days, Barnett was arrested and charged in January 2021, with then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen calling the photos of him at the Capitol "repulsive." The jury only took a couple of hours to return Monday's guilty verdict against Barnett on all counts, including felonies for obstruction of an official proceeding and ...

The battle between hardliners and Rep.-elect Kevin McCarthy heated up when Rep-elect Matt Gaetz accused him of being a "squatter" in the speaker's office. The battle between a small but influential group of Republican hardliners and Rep. Kevin McCarthy heated up Tuesday night when Rep. Matt Gaetz accused the House GOP leader of squatting in the speaker's office. McCarthy had his belongings moved into the space on Monday, before he failed multiple times to get enough votes to clinch the speaker 's gavel. "What is the basis in law, House rule, or precedent to allow someone who has placed second in three successive speaker elections to occupy the Speaker of the House Office?" Gaetz wrote in a letter to the Architect of the Capitol. Gaetz wrote to that "after three undeciding votes, no member can lay claim to this office ." “How long will he remain there before he is considered a squatter ?” Gaetz wrote. Gaetz stood up twice on Tuesday to offer ...