Feds: Oath Keepers sought 'violent overthrow' of government

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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 rioters started storming the Capitol they saw an opportunity to do it, a prosecutor said.

She sought to rebut suggestions from the defense that Rhodes' rhetoric was simply bluster, telling jurors that his messages filled with talk about violence and civil war weren't “ranting and raving" but were "deadly serious."

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 Republican Donald Trump to Biden. 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 an Olive Garden restaurant.

 

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