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Conspiracists, neo-Nazis and gun activists: the Trump loyalists who stormed the Capitol

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Saul Loeb with Thomas Urbain in New York, Agence France-Presse

<p>The tattoo-chested man in a horned headdress, the middle-aged intruder with his foot on Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#x27;s desk and the woman shot dead by police: Their images have been beamed around the world but who are the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol?</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/08/21/some-us-capitol-rioters-fired-after-internet-detectives-identify-them">Some US Capitol rioters fired after internet detectives identify them</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/07/21/4-deaths-52-arrests-made-after-trump-supporters-storm-us-capitol">4 deaths, 52 arrests made after Trump supporters storm US Capitol</a></li></ul><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/mpdc/publication/attachments/POIs%20of%20Interest_1.7.21.pdf">District of Columbia police release photos of people in US Capitol riot</a></li></ul><div><br/><strong>PRO-GUN CAMPAIGNER</strong></div><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/afp/01/08/riot1.jpg"/><figcaption>Richard Barnett, 60, from Gravette in northwest Arkansas, barged into the office of House Democrat leader Pelosi where he was photographed leaning back in a chair with his left foot on her desk.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Barnett, known locally for hosting the pro-gun Facebook group 2A NWA STAND!!!, told Arkansas news channel KFSM 5News that he somehow ended up there by accident.</p><p>&quot;I didn&#x27;t break the doors. I was shoved in. I didn&#x27;t mean to be in there. Hell, I was looking for the bathroom,&quot; said Barnett.</p><p>He added though that he had every right to be in Pelosi&#x27;s office.</p><p>&quot;My desk. I&#x27;m a taxpayer. I&#x27;m a patriot. It ain&#x27;t her desk. We loaned her that desk.&quot;</p><p>Before leaving, Barnett stole an envelope and left Pelosi a note calling her a &quot;bitch,&quot; he told KFSM 5News.</p><div><strong>QANON &#x27;DIGITAL SOLDIER&#x27;</strong></div><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/afp/01/08/riot2.jpg"/><figcaption>Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including Jake Angeli, a QAnon supporter known for his painted face and horned hat, protest in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. <em>Saul Loeb, Agence France-Presse</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Shirtless, sporting face paint and a fur hat complete with buffalo horns, Jake Angeli is a prominent supporter of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory.</p><p>He describes himself as a &quot;digital soldier&quot; of the movement that claims Trump is waging a secret war against a global liberal cult of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.</p><p>The 33-year-old Angeli presented himself as a &quot;shamanist and consultant for the Trump supporters&quot; when he was photographed by AFP at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona in November. He was wearing his headdress then too.</p><p>&quot;We&#x27;re patriots on the front lines in Arizona who wish to take our positive energy to DC,&quot; he wrote on the ultra-conservative social network Parler in December.</p><p>Social media users noted similarities between Angeli&#x27;s look and that of 1990s Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay, forcing the jazz-funk performer to assure fans that he wasn&#x27;t in Washington on Wednesday.</p><div><strong>NEO-NAZI</strong></div><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/afp/01/08/riot3.jpg"/><figcaption>White nationalist Matthew Heimbach fights with demonstrators at Michigan State University as he and other alt-right advocates try to attend a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer on March 5, 2018 in East Lansing, Michigan. <em>Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>Photographed standing alongside Angeli was 29-year-old Matthew Heimbach, &quot;considered by many to be the face of a new generation of white nationalists,&quot; according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.</p><p>Heimbach was one of the organizers of the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, on the sidelines of which a woman was killed by a neo-Nazi.</p><div><strong>MILITARY VETERAN</strong></div><p><br/>Ashli Babbitt was named by police as the woman shot at close range by a police officer as she tried to climb through a broken window in the hallway of Congress.</p><p>The 35-year-old from San Diego later died from her injuries. KUSI-TV quoted her husband as saying she had been a staunch Trump supporter and &quot;a great patriot.&quot;</p><p>Babbitt was a US Air Force veteran who described herself as a &quot;Libertarian&quot; on her Twitter page.</p><p>On Tuesday she tweeted: &quot;Nothing will stop us....they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours....dark to light!&quot;</p><div><strong>LECTERN THIEF</strong></div><p>Looking particularly pleased with his day&#x27;s efforts was a man in a Trump winter beanie hat smiling and waving at cameras as he carried Pelosi&#x27;s lectern.</p><p>Local media identified him as 36-year-old Adam Johnson, a father of five from Parrish, Florida.</p><p>tu-pdh/bfm</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div> </div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i_4ndTRDshs?enablejsapi=1"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>The tattoo-chested man in a horned headdress, the middle-aged intruder with his foot on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk and the woman shot dead by police: Their images have been beamed around the world but who are the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol?</p>

The tattoo-chested man in a horned headdress, the middle-aged intruder with his foot on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk and the woman shot dead by police: Their images have been beamed around the world but who are the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol?

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Conspiracists, neo-Nazis and gun activists: the Trump loyalists who stormed the Capitol

Saul Loeb with Thomas Urbain in New York,

Agence France-Presse

Published Jan 08, 2021 08:41 AM PHT

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