Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the extremist far right militia the Oath Keepers, was arrested on Thursday for his role in planning the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
showing that Rhodes began sending messages encouraging people to oppose the certification of the election results as early as November, shortly after the election.
“We aren’t getting through this without civil war. Too late for that. Prepare your mind, body, spirit,” Rhodes wrote in a group chat. “It will be a bloody and desperate fight. We are going to have a fight. That can’t be avoided.” Documents show that Rhodes continued to incite fellow right-wingers in the following weeks. Two days before the right-wing coup attempt, he posted an article on the Oath Keepers website urging members to “stand tall in support of President Trump’s fight to defeat the enemies foreign and domestic who are attempting a coup.”, Oath Keepers members have been cooperating with prosecutors.
This is in direct opposition to what Rhodes has said in interviews. “We had no plan to enter the Capitol, zero plan to do that, zero instructions to do that, and we also had zero knowledge that anyone had done that until after they had done that,”Other Oath Keepers leaders who were present at the attack were also involved in its planning. Jessica Watkins, Oath Keepers member and leader of the Ohio State Regular Militia,and urged them to stand by Trump in the months before the attack.
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