“I’ll be there,” Logan Barnhart wrote in response to a @realDonaldTrump tweet. And yes, he was more than “there,” he was engaged in what he later described as “feeding police to the mob,” telling an officer that he would die tonight and likely hitting an officer on the ground. The fact that Barnhart only pleads to one felony and four misdemeanors seems like the sweetest possible deal that DOJ has offered yet. Maybe Barnhart was just too handsome to resist. He was a model for romance novels, one of which is… an acquired taste? No, it’s just distasteful.

From NBC News:

When he arrived at the U.S. Capitol, he now admits, he battled police and helped drag an officer down the stairs on the western front, where some of the most barbaric violence of the day took place. Barnhart pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon before U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.

Barnhart, 41, admitted that he grabbed an officer by the vest on the back of the neck and helped drag the officer “in a prone position” down the stairs and into the crowd and that he later pushed officers and struck at them with a flagpole.

Try that with your local police and see how you do. You will likely get more than one felony civil disorder charge. One would far more likely get an assault with a deadly weapon or assault a police officer and get far more than three to five years. Again, maybe he was just too handsome.

But one would surely want to hammer a guy who posed for some romance as a “step brother.”

Barnhart appeared on the cover of romance novels like “Stepbrother UnSEALed: A Bad Boy Military Romance” and “Lighter,” a book with the slogan “wrong never felt so right.”

An assistant U.S. attorney said during Barnhart’s plea hearing Wednesday that the case included evidence from both Barnhart’s Google account and his Instagram account.

Well, wrong can probably feel right. The first little snort of meth in one’s life probably feels right, but it’s only going to end wrong. So, feeling right has nothing to do with anything. It’s still wrong. One of the very very few things that distinguish [most] humans from apes is that – theoretically – humans are supposed to be able to think; “This feels so good, but it’s wrong, and thus it’s wrong and, given that it’s still wrong, I won’t…”

It is also wrong to hurl an officer down the stairs, and no one cares how that feels.

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