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Yahoo News reports:
Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette marched with members of a right-wing extremist group prior to the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to footage recently unearthed on social media.
The photos and video showing Barnette marching alongside the Proud Boys originally surfaced on Sunday via writer Chad Loder’s Twitter account. On Monday, the photos were verified by NBC News.
Barnette has been a prominent promoter of election conspiracy theories, including organizing buses to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the violence at the Capitol.
Last night Barnette said this to Fox News:
Well, first of all, allow me to correct you. I was not with the Proud Boys. I was out there because I wanted to hear what the president had to say.
I was also out there because, I’m sure your listeners will understand, the first five rights in the First Amendment—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to petition your government with grievances and freedom to assemble, as well as freedom of the press.
And so, as a law-abiding American citizen, I had every right to go to a rally in support of my president.
NEW: I believe I’ve found photos and video of GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette (@Kathy4Truth) marching alongside Proud Boys on their way to storm the Capitol on January 6th.
Barnette is wearing a gray knit hat with a gray jacket. I don’t have her inside Capitol grounds yet. pic.twitter.com/TTC0HPw4Bv
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) May 15, 2022
Left: GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette marching with the Proud Boys on their way to storm the U.S. Capitol, Jan 6, 2021.
Right: Barnette wearing the same jacket, Oct 31, 2020 at a rally in Trooper, PA. pic.twitter.com/hC7O5MqAN8
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) May 15, 2022
NEW: Video of GOP candidate for Senate Kathy Barnette marching with the Proud Boys on their way to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.
You can see Barnette at 0:37 wearing her signature jacket, hat, and gloves. [source: Parler archive y4K5OwDPuupA] https://t.co/P8wihoIpYR pic.twitter.com/vrFtbvYPNp
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) May 15, 2022
January 6th, 2021: GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette can be seen marching behind Oregon-based Proud Boys JonathanPeter Klein (black jacket w/ flag gaiter) and his brother Matthew Leland Klein (green jacket) on their way to storm the U.S. Capitol.
Both men were indicted for J6. pic.twitter.com/Ex8eG3RHcw
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) May 15, 2022
The now-indicted Oregon Proud Boys who marched alongside Kathy Barnette to attack the Capitol on January 6th are JonathenPeter Klein and Matthew Klein, nicknamed #PDXPB and #PDXPBCompletesMe by citizen sleuths.
They are said to be working on a plea deal.https://t.co/3fRyxDrFwp pic.twitter.com/bjZwyVCoGk
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) May 15, 2022
Kathy Barnette doesn’t outright deny it when Fox News’ Bret Baier presses her on whether she went into the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“I said I sang, I prayed, I listened to my president and walked and then got on a bus and came home.” pic.twitter.com/BtsyoSwfEO
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 16, 2022
Kathy Barnette says the images of her marching in DC on Jan. 6 are part of the media “smearing my name and sowing seeds of disinformation in order to suppress my vote and steal this election from me.” pic.twitter.com/IzsY0gm8Wr
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 16, 2022
Bret Baier asks Kathy Barnette to respond to Trump’s robocall claiming she wanted to “build a statue to Barack Hussein Obama.”
Barnette: “Well, that is unfortunate that the president would say that again, I’m going to chalk it up that he has bad advisers on that one.” pic.twitter.com/jlfdZAVB2G
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 16, 2022