Below is a copy of a letter I submitted to Senators Murray and Cantwell this morning. Be forewarned, as this could happen to you and your loved ones, and not a thing will be done about it. Don’t die in the streets because Democrats only pretend to believe in change.

Lewis Black is right. The two-party system is a bowl of sh** staring at itself in the mirror. There is no difference other than optics.

Dear Senator Murray,

My name is Chris Barnhart. You might recognize it. I’ve written you before, and my father Michael was your high school history teacher.

I am the victim of Denise Meador and her company(ies) Private Client Fiduciary/Private Client Financial. Let me further explain.

In 2013, my mother – Donna Barnhart – purchased a condo she claimed she would deed to me upon her death and that would become my property. She put this promise into writing on multiple occasions. She paid $68.5K for the condo, and it was worth around $250K when it was sold out from under me by The Christopher Michael Barnhart Special Needs Trust, of which the aforementioned companies are the sole trustees. Since 2024, the trust has been under the supervision of Judge Robert Olson of the Whatcom County Superior Court.

In 2024, the trust – bound by law to spend the resources in the trust for my well-being – spent an exorbitant amount of money in court to see to it that I would be evicted – EJECTED – from my own home after I spent a dozen years begging for help due to the circumstances of my disability (autism), and the behavior at the condo association (including wide-spread drug trafficking in our parking lot).

The trust never had any money to move me to a new location, and instead consorted with the condo association to present false evidence to Judges Olson and Evans to ensure that I lost my home. They have since sold the condo and sat on a tidy profit of over $100,000 (after they paid the attorneys they used to oust me from my home).

I now have to rely on an old cargo van for housing, which is why I’m using a PO Box as my address.

Even though the trust KNEW (being granted by Donna Barnhart herself) that I had paid between $20K and $32K to Donna over the course of nine years, and thus had a vested financial interest in the property, the trust supported my EJECTMENT (which neatly denied me a right to representation under the law), and I wound up on the streets with my 70 lb dog.

That happened last August. Shortly thereafter, I lost my wallet. Some kind stranger returned it to the address on my ID: the address of the condo where I no longer lived. Even though that wallet contained my only means of accessing my federally recognized disability funds, Denise Meador and the trust refused to return it to me until May.

The trust sitting on money meant to ensure my well-being not only unhoused me purposefully. It deceived the court into doing so. It tormented me by preventing me from accessing funds and thus relegated me to sleeping on the literal sidewalk for months while it held personal property never owned by the trust, including my legal ID (with ICE running around), all my bank and credit cards, and my Medicare card which would have maybe allowed me to seek medical attention.

The trustees have done everything they can to destroy me utterly. I have begged them to remove themselves from trusteeship and they claim they will, but ONLY if I can provide a new trustee first.

Even though my own mother acknowledged that noise sensitivity might make life unpleasant for me at the condo (in fact, it drove me crazy over 12 years), and even though she impressed on the condo association that the property would one day be mine, and even though she threatened to move me should the problems at the condo not cease (which she did threaten in writing in 2015), I was forced to endure another decade of it while Donna Barnhart reneged on her promise, put the condo into the name of her living trust, and then hired specially selected trustees to guarantee I would be thrown out onto the streets.

I have NEVER been allowed legal representation. I have never been allowed to talk to the supervisor of my trust at ALL. Judge Robert’s assistant, Marsha Scevers, decided any communication by me as the beneficiary of the trust would be “ex parte” communication and would never be seen by the judge.

I’ve tried to get legal representation through the Northwest Justice Project, but the attorney I spoke with (named Eva) said that due to the ejectment I had no legal right to counsel, and therefore none would be provided to me. I pointed out to Eva that the ejectment itself was perjurous, as all parties involved KNEW I had in fact spent quite a bit of money on what I thought was equity into my own home, and therefore an ejectment was illegal.

When I tried to get ADA assistance from Whatcom County Superior Court, the ADA Specialist told me I couldn’t just “allude” to having a disability, and insisted I undergo an unknown series of cognitive tests to prove it to the court’s satisfaction. When I inquired how to go about getting that – and funding it since I live off SSDI – they refused to answer.

I can’t find that I have any rights at all in Washington State. In the past, I have plead my case to the Washington State Human Rights Commission – who insisted my only recourse was through an expensive private lawyer and civil law suits. That commission recently forced one of its board members to resign due to rampant antisemitism.

When I appealed to the state AG’s office (Bob Ferguson at the time), I was told the state had no governance over “housing” law, and ignored the civil rights aspect of the case.

Bob Ferguson’s office also told me it couldn’t do anything about a local narcotics ring if the local police refused to investigate, of which I have written proof. This was a large-scale drug trafficking ring run by one of the residents of Cypress Place Condominium Association on 32nd Street that dealt POUNDS of drugs in our parking lot daily for months with the full knowledge of the condo’s board of directors. I know they had this knowledge because I took photos and videos of drug deals which I supplied to the condo association AND the Bellingham Police Department.

All parties refused to act, which is a matter of police record (I have the police report filled out by Sergeant Robert Ortega in 2022 that acknowledges I was reporting TRAFFICKING, not personal use, and claimed the BPD had no resources to fight drug related crime, despite having a dedicated drug and gang taskforce.)

At no point have I been allowed access to the court to prove that the trust has been working to destroy my life for profit, even though I have copied Marsha Scevers (and sometimes used the scdept2 email address of the court) to ensure that they had evidence this was happening.

I have been told repeatedly that my only recourse is to hire a lawyer and spend thousands of dollars I don’t have to fight against my court supported trustees. Even though Judge Olson’s own decision when he assumed supervisory status of the trust indicated that I should have a say.

I worked my entire life. Right up until I was put on disability after a suicide attempt caused by my mother’s gaslighting in 2008, to which “pot mama” Alison Chinn Holcomb was a personal witness, as she and I were close friends at the time. I appealed to Mrs. Holcomb to refer me to an attorney, but when I tried to commit suicide, she began treating me like human garbage. She isn’t the person she claims to be, and once berated me in a public restaurant for not being “grateful” that she personally had saved my life.

I thought disability law and supporting the disenfranchised was a plank in the Democratic party platform, but I can only find virtue signalling and disdain.

While I don’t believe I will survive another Winter living in a van where my dog’s water dish routinely freezes over at night, my trust sits comfortably paying itself from the money it refuses to spend on my well-being. And a judge allows this.

A judge KNOWS ALL THIS and allows it.

It is past time that the Democrats stop paying lip service to providing rights for the disabled and actually does it. Bellingham is overrun with drug addicts. Many of the homeless population are in wheelchairs or require other mobile assistance, while the drug addicts get treatment, free opioids through Methadone programs, and free housing for “recovering” addicts.

We, the victims of other people’s crime rather than our own, have no agency. The law routinely tells us we must pay to have rights, and refuses to even consider how we might participate in a decidedly pay-to-play justice system that goes out of its way to disenfranchise us.

“Allude” to having a disability? I’ve been on SSDI since 2008. I was put there by the courts and Harborview Medical Center. It’s all a matter of public record. The fact I have to PROVE to a court illegally ejecting me from my home while allowing my accusers no such burdens is why special needs trusts require government supervision.

I know I don’t mean anything to you, and nor do my “rights”. For those of us truly disenfranchised, it’s clear that Trump and Democrats are really all the same. However, I know you DO care about your political clout, power, and legacy.

All communities are comprised of individuals. If you do not stand up for the rights of individual citizens, you will eventually lose that demographic as more and more people read my story, and stories like mine. We will all know how much of your politicking is lip-service, and how little of it is actually for the benefit of the citizens you routinely use as staging to prove how much you care.

I have lost all hope for myself. Next year at this time, I will most likely be dead. Thanks to The Christopher Michael Barnhart Special Needs Trust and my own mother. And thanks to politicians who turn a blind eye to the very real harm this lack of real compassion is having on the most disenfranchised segments of the population.

But I am not totally without agency. This is 2026. I can continue to tell my story to everyone who will listen. On social media. To the press. To other voters. Whether or not they will care will probably determine whether or not YOU will.

If you use Google’s own AI to ask about Private Client Fiduciary/Representative, you will be greeted with output that tells you to take extreme caution when dealing with them. Aside from my own story, others on Yelp have accused that same company of stealing stimulus funds. Apparently, they have faced a host of litigation. I am far from being their only victim.

I am a taxpayer. I pay my parking fees to park my dangerously out of date van. I pay for my own food. I pay for my license, registration, and tabs. I pay and I pay and I pay.

But nowhere has the city or state government, including the courts, ever determined that I have any rights.

I write this sitting in a public parking lot near the container village in Bellingham. In the back of a 33 year old cargo van where I have lived for the past 10.5 months. Fortunately, I was able to get new identification from DOL and new debit and credit cards from my bank. But without a mailing address, I didn’t receive my own wallet from my TRUSTEE until May; over 7 months after they received it in the mail.

I am not a ward of the court. I am not a ward of anyone. I do not have a payee. I didn’t sign up to be a beneficiary of a trust. And this is all done to me in my name, and the State of Washington finds I have no rights and that NONE of this is criminal.

Don’t you think it should be?

Please consider regulating special needs trusts at the federal level. Private fiduciary companies shouldn’t have carte blanche to torment and destroy disabled people for their own profit, using their own NAME to do it.

If you can’t find out that any of this is criminal in nature, then there is no more hope for America going forward. What the politicians do to the least of us, they will eventually do to everyone.

Be the change you claim to be, or be added to the list of heartless politicians who refuse to address injustice every time I tell my story going forward.

Thank you for your consideration.