Nancy Pelosi’s Lectern Taken by Rioter Returns to Capitol

Nancy Pelosi‘s lectern is again on the U.S. Capitol … per week after a Florida man gleefully carried it out throughout a failed coup.

The Home Speaker’s lectern was wheeled into the constructing Wednesday and, as we reported, it didn’t undergo any injury. Nonetheless, fairly positive the lectern was or shall be sanitized like hell. No phrase but if the gavel was additionally returned.

As you understand by now … Adam Johnson is the person picked up final week on a federal warrant in Florida for his function within the Capitol riots, which, in fact, included him taking the lectern. Pictures of the 36-year-old have been plastered on-line and on TV throughout and after the rebel. Goes with out saying, it wasn’t arduous to ID him.

Johnson, a married man and stay-at-home father of 5, is slated to look later this month in D.C. however already Johnson’s lawyer informed reporters earlier this week the case goes to be an uphill battle ‘trigger, ya know, there are footage of the man taking the lectern!

Johnson’s attorneys, Dan Eckhart and David Bigney, acknowledged as a lot throughout a information convention this week exterior a Tampa courthouse. Eckhart mentioned, “You’ve got {a photograph} of our consumer in a constructing, unauthorized to be there, with what seems to be a podium or a lectern.”

When a reporter informed Eckhart how the photograph shall be problematic, he mentioned, “Yeah, I do not know find out how to clarify that. However, that might be an issue. I am not a magician.”