Several Oath Keepers have pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, including William Todd Wilson. “He just ghosted,” Rhodes told The Intercept before he was arrested in January. Rhodes himself is reported to harbor grudges toward Trump for not showing up at the Capitol after he told his supporters to march to the building and said he’d “be with” them there. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia
5, 2021, meeting with Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys, left, Joshua Macias, co-founder of Veterans for Trump, Bianca Gracia of Latinos for Trump, and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers, right. But she has since soured on the committee, saying it is only protecting those who she believes set the Capitol rioters up.
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6 committee would reveal the full secret plan, the deep state figures who were really pulling the strings behind the scenes and setting up those who stormed the Capitol. At first, she was somewhat hopeful that the Jan. SoRelle still believes the election was stolen. 6 committee’s work said SoRelle was of great interest to the committee given her links both in Trump’s orbit and with members of the alleged seditious conspiracy. 6 committee, and given her overlapping roles, it’s likely that testimony will come up at the panel’s next public hearing Tuesday, much of which the committee has said will focus on the role of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and the goal they shared with Trump to stop the certification of the Electoral College votes.Ī source familiar with the Jan. SoRelle has already spoken extensively with the Jan. And on the night before the attack, she was present in a parking garage as Rhodes met with Enrique Tarrio, the head of the Proud Boys, the other predominant organization in a smorgasbord of extremist groups connected with the Capitol attack. Capitol (although didn’t enter the building) on Jan. Nonetheless, she was on the grounds of the U.S. She says she declined.Īs SoRelle tells it, despite her close relationship with Rhodes, she never put him in touch with key figures, putting a firewall between her work with the Oath Keepers and her work to overturn the election results.
6, 2021, Rhodes asked SoRelle to send it to the White House. At the same time, he was adding references to Pence to his speech for the Stop the Steal rally, according to the panel.As he prepared an open letter calling on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in the weeks leading up to Jan.
In previous hearings, the committee detailed a heated phone conversation in which Trump berated Pence for refusing to stop the certification of electors. With the zero hour approaching, Trump escalated pressure on Pence. That day, on his podcast, Bannon told listeners that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow." 5, according to White House phone logs reviewed by the committee. Trump spoke twice to Steve Bannon, his former White House adviser, on Jan. I am certainly entitled to my apocalyptic view of America’s future as expressed in my speech.” I gave a speech on January 5 consistent with my constitutional free-speech rights to skepticism about the anomalies and irregularities in the 2020 election. "Nor was I involved in the effort to delay the certification of the Electoral College. “Any claim assertion or implication that I knew in advance about, was involved in or condoned any illegal act at the Capitol on January 6 is categorically false," he told NBC News in a text message. She said Tuesday that Trump called a witness - whose testimony hasn't been made public - after the last hearing. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the panel's top Republican. Ultimately, siding with White House lawyers against his informal advisers, Trump declined to seize voting machines, even as he insisted publicly - against all evidence - that he was the victim of widespread electoral fraud.īut he remains engaged in an influence campaign, according to Rep. The panel portrayed the weeks after the November 2020 election as a time of desperation for Trump, during which he considered strategies his own lawyers viewed as detrimental to the nation and his close confidants encouraged the extremist groups that led the attack on the Capitol. The evidence the committee presented Tuesday is designed to fit into its broader case that Trump resorted to inciting violence after he learned that he had lost the election and had no legal means to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. "I think everybody thought he was going to be coming down. "We basically just followed on what he said," Ayres said.
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