Taking the stand in his defence for a second day, Rhodes testified that he had no idea that his followers were going to join the pro-Donald Trump mob to storm the Capitol and that he was upset after he found out that some did. “There was no plan to enter the building for any purpose,” Rhodes said.
She also showed multiple messages where Rhodes referred to “us and our rifles” or “boots on the ground” ahead of Jan. 6. Rhodes had been “saying for weeks, if not months, that when the president didn't act your supporters would take things into their own hands," she said.Rhodes is on trial with four others for what prosecutors have alleged was a plan to stage an armed rebellion to stop the transfer of presidential power from Republican Trump to Democrat Joe Biden.
Another Oath Keeper previously testified as part of an agreement with prosecutors that he and others in the group were prepared to use “any means necessary” to stop the certification of the vote. Rhodes did not go into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and prosecutors have described him as “a general surveying his troops on a battlefield." Rhodes said that he merely went to the Capitol to find his Oath Keeper followers who were not on a security “mission" protecting figures such as Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant. Rhodes said he didn't even realize that one of his men who went into the Capitol had done so until he saw him in an FBI photo.
Talk about the opposite of the definition patriotic. The absolute definition would mean the care not to terrorize and or vandalize the people or the people's property unfettered. Entirely transparent one cannot change the dictionary when there are generations who know better.🧵👇
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