Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes talked openly of civil war in the weeks before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, prosecutors revealed on Friday.
for seditious conspiracy related to their alleged involvement in the Capitol breach. Authorities accuse the group of a plot to keep Donald Trump in office by preventing President Joe Biden’s victory from being certified. In text messages to allies, unveiled in court on Friday, Rhodes called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and mobilize the military to stop Biden’s inauguration. Rhodes also hinted at a plan to act even without Trump.
. “And all of us veterans who swore that oath—until you’re age 65, you can be called up as the militia to support and defend the Constitution. He needs to know from you that you are with him, [and] that if he does not do it now while he is commander in chief, we’re going to have to do it ourselves later, in a much more desperate, much more bloody war. Let’s get it on now–while he is still the commander in chief.
Rhodes was a participant in a Signal group chat called “Friends of Stone,” a reference to Trump associate Roger Stone, prosecutors revealed on Friday. On Nov. 7, the day Biden’s victory was declared, Rhodes took to the group chat to forecast militant action. Rhodes repeatedly called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, and published open letters imploring the then-president to mobilize not just the military but also unofficial militias before Jan. 6. Still, Rhodes told others that he was willing to take action even without Trump., adding that “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.
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