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So he really DID think it was the bathroom?
The charges (because none of the big names decided to actually list them) he was convicted of:

civil disorder,
obstruction of an official proceeding & aiding and abetting, (up to 20 years)
entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon,
disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon,
entering and remaining in certain rooms in a capitol building,
disorderly conduct in a capitol building,
parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a capitol building,
theft of government property.

I was unable to find how much time he could and/or is likely to get because who would want to know that (f'n news).  Please list if you can find it somewhere >

The news doesn't break it down because it's a bit difficult and also depends on the judge.
There are federal sentencing guidelines that use a matrix that includes the offense and criminal background.  Like this.
So, going off the offense level and criminal history, the judge decides the sentence, but the guidelines are just guidelines.  Prosecutors often ask for an upward departure, while defense attorneys often ask for a downward departure.
According to the sentencing manual, the highest level charge, 18 USC 1512(c)(2), has a base level offense of 14.  If he doesn't have any criminal history (I don't know either way), that would be 15-21 months.  However, as I said before, the judge will consider the severity, the other criminal convictions in this case, and other factors.  It's incredibly difficult to try and pin down even a range.
Edit: the sentencing manual for that crime sets some statutory maximums under certain conditions, but no statutory minimums, from what I can see. >

Thank you for this.  You see what I mean though?  From 'up to 20 years' to maybe 1.5+.  The 'up to' starts to be meaningless at a certain point because even I know there's no way the sentence is going to be even close to this. >

Right but wasn’t his plea deal five years, and he refused it? So wont his sentence likely be longer than five years now? Especially since they added the extra charge recently. >

Kinda depends if him and his lawyers thought that there was no way a judge would sentence him to five years. It really well could be under five years, doesn’t seem like they gave him a really tempting plea deal. Depends totally on his priors and basically what the judge feels is right for the case. There are maximums on those crimes but no minimums. >

He's been an arrogant ass throughout and his lawyer said it was unfair because he didn't get a "jury of his peers" from Arkansas lmao.  These aren't the brightest bulbs, I'm betting he gets more than the 5 plea bargain. >

So his attorney doesn’t understand that he did not commit his crimes in Arkansas? Attorney is scared that a D.C. jury will have some functioning brain cells and be capable of using them unlike his client. >

Attorney is just doing his job to try to find any possible angle to do what the client is paying him to do. I'm sure the attorney perfectly understands that, but has to try SOMETHING. You don't keep your license to practice (and/or don't get good Google reviews) if you walk in the courtroom and say "Right your honor, my client is a real knob end and you should just lock him up so we can go to lunch". >

Right, but the angle the attorney is spouting has no legal basis whatsoever and only plays well on right-wing news. The attorney's job is to find and exploit a legal technicality if they have to but this guy seems to be grasping at straws. >

When your case is indefensible, then all you can do is grasp at straws. >


Barnett’s lawyers have also argued that Barnett wrote the word “biatch,” not “b***h,” which they said was “slang” and “less offensive.”

Um… OK. >

To be fair to the lawyers, they are required to provide a best-effort defense for their client.
...This is the best effort defense, which makes it not just funny, but lawyer-level funny. >

I love that it reads like an excuse that a high schooler would make if they called their teacher a "biatch" and got in trouble for it. Even the lawyer who thought it up must have been privately chuckling about it. >

The episode of Boondocks were the teacher claims he said-a not -er. >

A lot of what they did was, like the 'smoking with cigarettes'' kid. >

The booty warrior is a real person as well >

As funny as "The eaaaasy whay or duh hawd whay" is, I was always just a little put off that he was a real dude talking about raping real dudes. >

Commentary on the us judicial system where you can steal a car, get 3 months, and this dude is your celly >

Sounds like he hired the right lawyer - blamed everyone involved in the sentence for being under Democratic mind control. >

It’s amazing how these people can’t grasp that no one agrees with what they’ve done. They still think they’re right 🤯 >

Party of personal responsibility in action.
"It's everyone else's fault I'm a total POS!" >

Was this the dude that shaved his beard thinking they wouldn't be able to find him? 🤣 >

There’s probably been a lot of the traitormagas that have done that lmfao. >


During the trial, Barnett testified he was pushed into the Capitol during the riot and was looking for a place to use the restroom inside the building, admiring all the artwork along the way. Barnett was combative with prosecutors during his testimony, and prosecutors later accused him of lying and being “belligerent.”
“I wasn’t part of that protest, I was pushed in,” Barnett said during his testimony, where he described himself as “hyper.”

Press X to doubt >

Almost like he has zero remorse and never considered the consequences of his action as before or after the event and how a mob overthrowing an election might be bad for democracy. >

This is what happens when people go their whole lives never being told to shut the fuck up and get the fuck out. 
Tell racist family they're dicks sooner. >

Imdoingmypart.gif >

He's really hoping the justice system is as stupid and gullible as he is. >

Well, let’s face it, he sort of has a point because look who they just elected as their governor in Arkansas. Plus, look what happened on her first day in office…tackling the tough issues in Arkansas. >

As an Arkansawyer, it's just a travesty that dumb motherfuckers voted in that uneducated bitch, she won't do any good for this state but she'll be lauded for "putting up with libruls." Fucking dumb >

As someone not from Arkansas, what’s up with the current governor that brought upon this comment? >

She's a Trump stooge that doesn't live in Arkansas. She doesn't have our best interest at heart, she's just trying to push an agenda that most people here don't agree with, starting with education, including BULLSHIT no one really cares about but "republicans," critical race theory and getting rid of the phrase "LatinX" are not serious issues, they're just talking points that matter to no one. >

I’ve only heard or seen the word “LatinX” maybe three times. Every time it was when Republicans were yelling about it. >

Complaining that DC isn't a 'State' and it is full of 'Biden Voters'.
Dude, FEDERAL crimes and those Biden voters are American citizens JUST LIKE YOU. The fact that you are an asshole notwithstanding, I hope you get the full award of years to serve.
Definition of "Found Out". >

Do your criming somewhere else if you don’t like the DC jury pool. I am sure if I went to Alabama and helped a woman exercise her autonomy over her own body in the form of an abortion I couldn’t get the trial moved to NY because “Alabama is full of abortion haters!” >

He'll have plenty of time to kick back with his feet up now. Hope it was worth it >


After the verdict, Barnett’s lawyer Joseph McBride told reporters outside the courthouse that his client had not received a fair trial, saying that Washington, DC, is “not a state” and made up primarily of “Biden voters.”

I assume this means there was a non-white person on the jury. >

8 counts of being a douche >

You mean entitled asshole. >

No I meant douche but entitled asshole could work as well. >

Wow. “I was pushed into the capital and was looking for a washroom with my laundered gun and my feet up in the speakers office. 
Sure man. Enjoy your “error in judgment.” You’re gonna have a long time to think about it whilst being someone else’s biatch. (And that’s slang, so really it’s less offensive.) 
Your lawyers didn’t have much to work with eh? I guess that’s why you were found guilty on 8 counts. Good luck in prison. >

When he cries in his cell and MTG visits him for prayer they should film it and put up a TikTok >

Now you’re giving her ideas. >

I don’t understand why people risk everything they have to do something as dumb as this. Like he wasn’t even thinking of his family even if they were in on this too, it still affects their loved ones and if they have grandchildren, they’re not going to see them again…was this really worth this photo?? 
We need National therapy. >

Agreed. But if you’re asking the question than deep down you believe it’s unjust to put a guy away for life for an ill conceived photo op. >

Good. Can we prosecute the ring leader now? I'm getting tired of feeling like a complete dipshit for expecting justice. >

The small guys go to jail and the big guys? >

Excellent. He gave some bullshit about not knowing what was happening. He was “looking for a bathroom” and somehow it was the Speaker’s  office. >

It happens. I was looking for a bathroom once and I accidentally robbed a bank, stole a car, and burglarized a house. It was the urinating in public that eventually got me caught. >

Ah, see, that's were you fucked up. Always urinate in the car. It's not technically "public" then. >

Plus it’s more comfy, which matters when you’re pissing into your own mouth. >

"“I did not steal it,” Barnett said in the video. “I bled on it because they were macing me and I couldn’t f**king see...”"  Yeah, he looks real blinded and in pain in his little victory picture.  Red eyes, tears streaming down his face, the whole thing.  Lying asshole. >

Where are my perjury charges >

I’ll quote Green Day: “I hope you had the time of your life.” >

Sounds like they should put him away for his own protection. This dude is so stupid, I wonder if his mother mixed lead paint in his oatmeal. >

It’s Arkansas, lots of things happen. >

Missouri and Arkansas is the epicenter of slack-jaw yokals. Everywhere you go you see big broods of families that all look eerily similar and ignorant of basically anything.
I'd be surprised if they could muster up a paper airplane that flies if it came pre folded. >

Was his defense funded by Donald J Trump? >

The same pillow guy that showed up to the White House a few days before the coup attempt with his request to rule a portion of America? When is he going to get some jail time? >

For the insurrection, no doubt. The stuff Trump hid at his resort is going to be a problem for him. Top Secret documents not where they are supposed to be is a fairly large issue. >

Biden was just caught with the same shit from his time as VP. Nothing will happen >

Biden didn't lie about it, or try to hide it, or not return them, unlike Trump. >

Also, they most likely originated from when he was VP, not packing up boxes of them to be shipped after his tenure ended.
And for your point, if Trump had simply returned all of them when asked originally, he wouldn't be getting the shit he is. To say the two are comparable is simply arguing in bad faith. Yes, he should have not have still had them, but that is where the similarity both starts and ends. >

"We're not saying there is something inherently wrong with DC or with the jurors." McBride said. "We're saying that we believe politics is the big elephant in the room that nobody wants to speak about here and political considerations about this trial have damaged the jury pool to the extent that we can't get a fair trial."
Looking for possible grounds to appeal. >

The humor of that considering his actions were governed by political reasons >

It's more basic than that.
For the right-wing, to 'be heard' means to get their way.  If they do not get their way it is because someone-else must be actively working to deny what they feel is rightly theirs, just by showing up.  To be 'heard' for them means no one else can be, by their own logic, b/c they are the only one to actually get what they want.
"Fair/impartial" means that they are not to be held accountable for their actions.  If they are, someone is actively working to persecute them and that isn't 'fair' because without that person, they'd be getting what they want (see 'heard').
It's all grandiose, childish, selfish narcissism; Immaturity in an older meat-suit given access to power.  They are always the center of their own universe and everyone else is either working with/for them or against them, no middle-ground.  You are either in the Tribe, the in-group, or you are outside the metaphorical picket-fence and in the out-group. >

[...Barnett testified he was pushed into the Capitol during the riot and was looking for a place to use the restroom...”]
Yeah, right, buddy.  That’s what happened, huh?  Pffft >

"Bigo" from Arkansas, LMAO. Dumbass. >

I hope that smug prick enjoys eating prison food and protecting his virtue. >

This guy apparently has quite a history of being armed at protests and has threatened to harm people in the past.
Prison is a good place for this loose cannon. >

Pisses me off that he is allowed to go home until he is sentenced. This guy committed numerous federal offenses and is allowed to go home. He has shown violent and sexist behaviors. he should be in the slammer currently, time spent can be served as part of his future sentence. >

Allowing people to get their affairs in order before incarceration is a good thing. We shouldn't want people to come out of prison with nothing but the clothes they're wearing because the landlord threw every single thing they owned into a dumpster while they were locked up. Most everybody should be allowed time to try and sort things out before reporting to lockup, not just the people that can afford good attorneys. >

Good. I don’t believe in the current justice system but those smug pricks need a comeuppance. >

The lawyer being so smug is a sign of goal posts shifting further right. >

Dude got that highschool dropout brain. 
Acting like he was doing a prank in the principals office >


Dude got that highschool dropout brain. 

He really does. He even knows that he's dumb as hell; it was one of his main arguments in his defense. >

As Red would say “Where’s the charge for being a dumbass!” >

The lawyer literally told his client to laugh with him at the charges… yeah man real funny when you’re not the one facing years in the pen. He should go to jail too for contempt of court just to get a taste. >

At what point do these tools realize their Supreme Leader DNGAF about them? >

Can the sentencing be sticking him with that taser stick daily. >

My head must be broken; I thought he was already sentenced to five months... like two weeks ago. >

Chud is as chud does. 
Enjoy spending your twilight years in prison, backwater bumblefuck. >

Lol the funny thing is, he’s probably that guy on FB that says “why do criminals nowadays always film their crimes?” >

Totally. I bet he’s one of those  “They should’ve complied 🤷”  guys too. >


“I wasn’t part of that protest, I was pushed in,” Barnett said

For some strange reason I kind of expected these people to at the very least stand by their horrible, misguided, principles. But they can't even do that. It's not my fault, it was all a misunderstanding.
Fucking cowards. >

Traitor is as traitor does. >

thats good but he’s just a dumbass nobody…prosecute the shitbags at the top >

He fucked around, now it’s time to find out…judges really don’t like it if you don’t accept responsibility for your actions. This rocket scientist claims he was “pushed in” with a crowd. Which part of the crowd sat his hillbilly ass in a chair and gave him a taser? >

I wonder if this guy’s lawyer wears a flower that squirts water. >

May can’t come fast enough.   Enjoy prison you pathetic POS! >

So what? He’ll get 5 months in jail while people are still serving life sentences for weed crimes in the 80s. Fuck this guy and all those traitors. What’s the longest wall in DC? >

I've never heard of a life sentence for only a weed crime and I guarantee he'll get more than 5 months. He turned down a plea deal for 5 years and the people involved convicted of felonies (like him) and not just trespassing are getting way more than 5 months. >

Three strike states can lead to a life sentence for weed >

Probably thinks trump will pardon him . >

Go to Prison to Own the Libs >

What a loser...put him away...and that trashy trumper lawyer >

He’s like every miserable, rock-dumb, entitled, diabetic ‘murican fuckwit rolled into one meat sack. >

If we don’t lay the hammer on these morons all they’ll do is learn from their mistakes and try again. Trumps incompetence saved us this time but what happens if next time it isn’t some moronic trust fund baby running things? What if it’s actually someone with an IQ that isn’t also their shoe size? >

Real life Ronnie Dobbs >

Nice!  Good movie. >

So he doesn't get some sort of charge like associate in a murder case or 2?  A security guard died from injuries sustained during the Jan 6 whatever we're calling it.  Also, even though one of the Jan 6 members was shot by security when she was climbing through a window into secure premises, wouldn't everyone else be a motivator to that alleged death?  I mean, if a bunch of people told me to jump off a building and kill myself and I did, then they'd be charged, right?  People told her to attack the capitol any way you can, she did, she died, so wouldn't those people that prompted her to do her actions be held accountable for her death?  Oh well. >

100 years ago they would have been hung from the gallows. They were attempting to overthrow the elected government because they did not agree with the results of the election and quite fortunately they were too stupid and ignorant to accomplish their mission. >

He’s crying about how the trial wasn’t fair because the jury wasn’t made up of his peers in AL… he should have attacked the AL state Capitol if he wanted the trial to be hosted there.  All the nerve… traitor. >

He’s going to be the belle of the prison ball! >

Does he not have 10 toes?  ;) >

Rumor is that this guy crapped in one of pelosi’s desk drawers