“I think it was stupid to go into the Capitol. One, because it wasn’t our mission. And two, it opened the door for our political enemies to persecute us. And that’s what happened and here we are,' Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes said on the stand.
“I think it was stupid to go into the Capitol. One, because it wasn’t our mission,” Rhodes told D.C. federal court jurors on Monday while on the stand in his own defense. “And two, it opened the door for our political enemies to persecute us. And that’s what happened and here we are.”
Prosecutors, however, allege that Rhodes and four other militia members spent months training and planning “an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy” in an attempt to stop the certification of Biden’s win over Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The group has been accused of seditious conspiracy—a rare Civil War-era charge that could result in 20 years behind bars if convicted.
“We could have fixed it right then and there. I’d hang fuckin’ Pelosi from the lamppost,” Rhodes said. “I think that anyone who assaults a police officer should be prosecuted,” Rhodes said about what he called the “horrific” events at the Capitol. “We have an absolutely zero tolerance for someone putting hands on a police officer."
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