Stewart Rhodes, laminitis of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally extracurricular the White House successful Washington, connected June 25, 2017. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo
A assemblage has convicted Oath Keepers laminitis Stewart Rhodes of masterminding a crippled to violently subvert the transportation of powerfulness from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, uncovering that helium entered into a seditious conspiracy against the U.S. government.
The assemblage besides convicted Rhodes state Kelly Meggs, person of the Florida Oath Keepers, of seditious conspiracy. But the assemblage acquitted 3 co-defendants — Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson and Thomas Caldwell — of joining Rhodes successful that conspiracy. All five, however, were convicted connected further felony charges, including obstruction of Congress.
Rhodes’ condemnation is the astir important to look from the Justice Department’s sprawling probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the Capitol, erstwhile dozens of Oath Keepers joined the mob that stormed the gathering and chased Congress, arsenic good arsenic then-Vice President Mike Pence, into hiding.
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