At trial, witnesses testified that the Oath Keepers repeatedly discussed a violent takeover of the U.S. government.
in December on charges similar to those faced by the Oath Keepers. The same lieutenant also reached out to a man he believed led a white-supremacist group. Experts said it makes sense for law enforcement personnel to seek information from extremist groups but that interactions must be handled with care to avoid misinterpretation.that they were regularly in touch with law enforcement and left their firearms outside D.C. because they had no intention of breaking the law on Jan. 6.
“I have to try to get Trump the message on the necessity of him waging war on the enemy NOW while still President and Commander in Chief,” he wrote to one group of Oath Keepers on Dec. 14, 2020. He said he had stayed in D.C. to press the president, had “passed that message on through one contact” was “working on others.”, a close confidant of the former president who was guarded by Oath Keepers on the morning of Jan. 6.
Trump never called on private militias to act as his defense force, and prosecutors argue that the law would not have allowed it. They note that Rhodes repeatedly said that the group would fight Joe Biden with or without Trump’s approval.“He needs to know that if he doesn’t do it, we will,” Rhodes said of Trump in a Dec. 29, 2020, message read in court. “And if we have to do it ourselves, without him as Commander in Chief, it will be exponentially harder, and many more of us will die.
When members of the Oath Keepers went into a VIP section at Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, the Secret Service required them to go leave tactical gear outside and go through metal detectors, another former member of the group testified Wednesday. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the House committee earlier this year that Trump wanted the metal detectors removed despite being told members of the crowd were armed.
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FBI agent who probed Oath Keepers' role in Jan. 6 Capitol riot to testify in trialAn FBI agent will testify on Tuesday in the trial of the founder of the anti-government Oath Keepers group and four others accused of plotting to use force on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election victory.
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Fewer than 2 dozen Oath Keepers attended Jan. 6 riot, FBI agent testifiesAn FBI agent testified Tuesday in the seditious conspiracy trial of members of the Oath Keepers militia that fewer than two dozen members of the group were present in the nation’s capital when Trump supporters engaged in a riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Oath Keeper shows jury assault-style rifle in Jan. 6 Capitol riot trialA member of the far-right Oath Keepers group showed a jury on Wednesday an AR-15 assault-style rifle and a box of ammunition that he brought to a hotel ahead of the attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 , the latest evidence in the trial of the group's leader and four others charged with seditious conspiracy.
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Oath Keeper describes group’s large weapons cache ahead of Jan. 6A member of the Oath Keepers who went to D.C. ahead of Jan. 6 with the group described a massive stockpile of firearms and other weapons they had stashed in a nearby hotel. “I had not seen that many weapons in one location since I was in the military.”
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Trump must testify under oath in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit: judgeA Manhattan judge has denied Donald Trump’s bid to postpone his deposition in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him.
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Opinion | You'll never believe this Oath Keeper's port-a-potty defenseThe evidence of guilt is remarkably strong, the defenses offered are just as weak, and witness testimony even offers some reason for hope beyond this case.
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