A prosecution witness who traveled to Washington, D.C., with fellow members of the Oath Keepers far-right militia in the days before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol testified in the sedition trial of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes.
A prosecution witness who traveled to Washington, D.C., with fellow members of the Oath Keepers far-right militia in the days before the Jan.
Upon arrival in the Washington area, Cummings said, he and his comrades left their weapons and ammunition at a hotel in Arlington, Va., and stayed overnight at a different hotel in Washington, where gun laws are tighter than in Virginia. Cummings said he believed he could be helpful in D.C., potentially providing “assistance.”On the morning of Jan.
While members of his group, including Meggs, wondered about going inside the Capitol, according to Cummings, he said he didn’t think that was a good idea because Vice President Mike Pence was inside the building. After leaving the group to take a bathroom break, Cummings said that after meeting again with fellow Oath Keepers he ran across Rhodes, who investigators say also never entered the building but directed the activities of others during the riot.
Members of the Oath Keepers militia group, left, march down Capitol steps among supporters of Donald Trump, Jan. 6, 2021. But during the course of Jan. 5 and 6, he said, he was never told to retrieve his weapon, never advised that a Quick Reaction Force — the group’s equivalent to a SWAT team — that the Oath Keepers supposedly had on standby had been activated, and understood that weapons were never meant to be used offensively.
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