Sorry republicans, it was an insurrection, and the people planning it knew it.
“We’re gonna be posted outside DC, awaiting the president’s orders. … We want him to declare an insurrection,”
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That is not yet established fact, but just a claim by the prosecution.
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The new indictment is part of a larger criminal conspiracy case that now includes 19 members of the far-right group. Members previously charged in the government’s case have pleaded not guilty.
According to prosecutors, members of the group attended a 9 November meeting during which the Oath Keeper’s founder Stewart Rhodes, referred to in government documents as Person One, described the attack as an insurrection.
“We’re gonna be posted outside DC, awaiting the president’s orders. … We want him to declare an insurrection,” according to documents.
Prosecutors say the Oath Keepers is a loose federation of militia groups that targets law enforcement and military members for recruitment and promotes a totalitarian vision of the government that its members believes represents a threat to American citizens.
Rhodes, who has not been charged, has claimed that the government is trying to build the action of a few members into an alleged organizational conspiracy. “I may go to jail soon, not for anything I actually did, but for made-up crimes,” Rhodes told Texas Republicans in March,
according to the Washington Post.
The new indictment alleges that Rhodes began developing plans to keep Donald Trump in office by force six days after the presidential vote. During an online meeting on 9 November, prosecutors claim, he told some of the Oath Keepers now under indictment:
We want [Trump] to declare an insurrection, and to call us up as the militia,” Rhodes allegedly stated.
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Whether or not the Oath Keepers wanted Trump to declare an insurrection, it is pretty clear he did not, so then any plans by Oath Keepers to implement an insurrection were not put into action.
For example, no guns were taken into the capital building, and the only shooting was by the police of an unarmed women who was only entering a lobby, not any place significant or secure.
