Posted on 11/08/2022 10:55:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes denied Monday in his sedition trial that his organization planned the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol, calling those who entered the building “stupid.”
He admitted under questioning by prosecutors that he has a history of opposing authorities and backing civil disobedience to the government.
But he said he did nothing unlawful on the day supporters of then-president Donald Trump stormed the seat of the US Congress, and condemned those of his group who “went off-mission” and entered the building.
Rhodes, on trial with four others for conspiracy to mount an armed rebellion against the US government, rebuffed questioning from Justice Department prosecutor Kathryn Rakoczy, who sought to show that, from President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the November 2020 election, he planned to bring his group to Washington to forcibly overturn the voting result.
The eyepatch-wearing Yale law graduate and former soldier told the court that about 100 members of his militia-like group were in Washington on January 6 only to provide security to rallies and rally speakers.
“It was not part of our mission for that day to enter the Capitol for any reason,” Rhodes said. …
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The fact that these people were not armed means Rhodes is not guilty of staging an armed rebellion.
Sedition my ass. When are the real seditionists going to be brought to justice? Every last one of those bums involved in the Russia collusion hoax. If Repubs sweep the midterms and do nothing about the collusion hoax, I am DONE DONE DONE with them!!! Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars wasted, innocent lives destroyed, a President hindered from doing his job, the nation divided, and they KNEW it was a hoax!!!
It’s about time somebody told the J6 panel chimpanzee’s to stuff it and that they weren’t going to be able to frame him.
biden, a fake president who uses law enforcement to prosecute his enemies, will have his gestapo convict him regardless.
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