WASHINGTON — For weeks leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates discussed using violence to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and when riotersthey saw an opportunity to do it, a federal prosecutor told jurors Friday as the seditious conspiracy case wound toward a close.
The closing arguments began in Washington federal court after the final pieces of evidence were presented in the trial alleging Rhodes and his band of antigovernment extremists plotted for weeks to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from RepublicanThe jury is expected to begin deliberations Monday, after closing statements from the defense conclude.
and into the Capitol. Rhodes remained outside, like “a general surveying his troops on a battlefield,” a prosecutor told jurors. After the attack, prosecutors say, Rhodes and other Oath Keepers celebrated with dinner at a local restaurant. “The way they have appointed themselves to be above the law is why they are here today,” she said. “The sense of entitlement that led to frustration followed by rage and then violence – that is the story of this conspiracy.”
When did they do that? I must have missed it.
Democracy has already failed. It will fall.
Oh, but cheating is ok for democracy? What kind of democracy only serves one political party. Doesn't sound like democracy to me.
Please. Nothing that transpired on J6 resembled a coup. Nothing. Anyone that studies history can see this. J6 was a political protest. Although how about some reporting of the 3 letter in the PB’s and OK’s before and during J6. You are still journalists at the CCPHP, yes?
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