Rhodes said he feared the White House would be attacked by anti-fascists in the weeks after the election and thought Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act. "Of course, Trump did not invoke the Insurrection Act," he admitted.
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes told jurors on Monday there was no plan for his band of extremists to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as he tries to clear his name in his seditious conspiracy trial.
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes says there was no plan for his band of extremists to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. That what he said on the
He testified that the attack was "nowhere in the mission scope at all" of his group called the Oath Keepers. He and four other members are charged with seditious conspiracy.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes denied Monday in his sedition trial that his organization planned the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol, calling those who entered the building "stupid."
“I had no idea that any Oath Keeper was even thinking about going inside or would go inside,” Rhodes said on the witness stand at his seditious conspiracy trial.
WASHINGTON -- Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes denied any plan to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and said at his seditious conspiracy trial Monday that he was not involved in members' stockpiling of firearms near Washington.
Stewart Rhodes testified in is own defense Monday — denying he had a role in planning the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He and four others are charged with seditious conspiracy.
