They include the lectern thief and the man who sat in Vice President Mike Pence’s seat.
Three of the President Trump’s riotous supporters, including a newly elected West Virginia politician, faced federal charges Saturday for their high-profile appearances in the U.S. Capitol riots that left five people dead. Each of the men was photographed or caught on video during Wednesday’s violent insurrection after Trump delivered a two-hour harangue insisting his loss to President-elect Joe Biden came in a rigged election. Two became literal poster boys for the despicable event: One for walking off with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s official lectern, the other for posing shirtless while seated in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair on the Senate floor. The third, politician Derrick Evans, was busted in part when investigators compared his voice on a live-streamed video from the Capitol with his voice-over from a campaign ad, according to court documents. “Our house! Our house!” Evans shouts in the Capitol video. Adam Johnson, the Florida resident photographed while lugging the lectern with the speaker’s seal during the wild Wednesday rampage, wasn’t laughing Saturday. Johnson,36, of Bradenton, Fla., was taken into custody shortly after 9 p.m. Friday and held without bail on a warrant issued by federal marshals, authorities said. Johnson, the father of five, was photographed while gleefully toting the lectern through the Capitol in the midst of Wednesday’s rioting – with the photo instantly going viral.
