Prosecutors say Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes' rhetoric grew more desperate and violent in the months before the insurrection, calling on then-President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to enable an armed resistance against a rogue government.
prosecutors say Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes' rhetoric grew more desperate and more violent, calling on then-President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to enable an armed resistance against a rogue government.
, a broad charge that in this case applies the use of force to resist the peaceful transfer of power from Trump to Joe Biden. The defendants are on trial in Washington, D.C., for other crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, too. To secure a conviction on seditious conspiracy, prosecutors must be able to convince the jury that the defendants willfully conspired to forcibly halt the functioning of government, a task they say will take weeks.
Rhodes' alleged scheme, which was never carried out, involved declaring President-elect Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris to be illegitimate and using community organizers and sheriff''s associations throughout the country to fight if needed, Cody alleged. "Recognize you are already in a war," the letter posted on the Oath Keepers' website read,"You must act like a wartime president."
Trump never invoked the Insurrection Act, but the five members of the Oath Keepers on trial, all of whom have pleaded not guilty, are also accused of amassing weapons outside of Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 and coordinating their movements during the attack, some of them ultimately making their way inside the building.
During cross-examination, McCanley testified that Rhodes did not engage in any violent acts that day and, to his knowledge, was not accused of any violent acts of protest in the past. Rhodes and his codefendants are not accused of any violent crimes on Jan. 6.
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