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Defendant In Trump Riot Case Throws 'Tantrum' Over Being Held In Jail > .

More than 250 people have been identified by the government as suspected participants in the tRUMP-encouraged insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January. The trials of those who have been charged began last month and will probably last months. 

Richard Barnett, self-proclaimed white nationalist, pictured sitting on a chair with one foot on the desk of the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was told by a judge on Thursday that he is to remain in jail until his next court date in May.

Barnett was arrested in January in Arkansas, his home state, and faces a series of federal charges over his alleged pictorially-memorialized role in the insurrection, including violent entry, disrupting official proceedings and disruptive and disorderly conduct.

Upon leaving Pelosi’s office on the day of the riot, Barnett was seen by a New York Times reporter holding an envelope which displayed Pelosi’s letterhead. He told the Times that he “put a quarter on her desk” in exchange for the letter. He also said he “wrote her a nasty note, put my feet up on her desk”. Barnett is also facing charges of theft of public property.

He yelled at US district judge Christopher Cooper, claiming “it’s not fair” that he should remain in custody as he awaits trial. “Everybody else who did things much worse are already home,” he whined to Cooper during the virtual hearing, according to court records and reporters listening in. “I’ve been here for a month, they’re going to set it for another month, and everybody else is getting out."

In a statement to NBC News, Joseph D McBride, Barnett’s attorney, denies that his outburst was directed at the judge. [Attorneys for insurrectionists must fall back on denying the obvious.]