New Indictment Shows Oath Keepers' Flood Of Communications On Jan. 6

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https://crooksandliars.com/2021/04/indictment-oath-keepers-jan-6

4/04/21 6:00am
New Indictment Shows Oath Keepers’ Flood Of Communications On Jan. 6
In their chaotic drive to the Capitol, Stewart Rhodes and his crew were busy, talkative fellas.
By David Neiwert


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The indictment says Rhodes and his team—including an unnamed communications chief designated as “Person 10,” and three Oath Keepers who guarded Stone—engaged in “frequent and consistent communication leading up to the attack.” Overall, they exchanged 19 phone calls over three hours that day:

At about 1 p.m., Minuta and Rhodes exchanged two calls totaling about three minutes at roughly the same time that a mob of Trump supporters first surged through police barricades onto Capitol grounds.

From 1:59 to 2:15 p.m., over a 17-minute span, “Person 10” spoke with Rhodes, and then exchanged five calls with James totaling about 6½ minutes, while Rhodes called Florida Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs—who led the “stack” formation—for 15 seconds. This was about the same time the doors to the Capitol were first being breached.

Rhodes then forwarded a message from “Person 10” telling the team that the mob had “taken ground at the capital[.] We need to regroup any members who are not on mission.” “Person 10” then called Meggs for 42 seconds.

Between 2:24 and 2:33 p.m., Rhodes spoke with “Person 10” for nearly 5½ minutes, after which “Person 10” and Meggs spoke. After James checked back with “Person 10,” he and Minuta jumped into the golf cart and headed toward the Capitol, where they began harassing officers outside the east doors of the building. At 3:15 p.m., the two men entered the building, pushing past police at the Rotunda doors.

Between 3:40 and 4:05 p.m., “Person 10” connected for three minutes with James, Minuta, and Rhodes for 3½ minutes. Shortly afterward, more than a dozen Oath Keepers, including many who had entered the Capitol, gathered around Rhodes just outside the building.

The communications within the team also indicated that the insurrectionists were following a previously mapped strategy. Jessica Watkins, one of the leaders of the group that entered the Capitol, texted: “We have a good group. We have about 30-40 of us. We are sticking together and sticking to the plan.”

“You are executing citizen’s arrest,” one person responded. “Arrest this assembly, we have probable cause for acts of treason, election fraud.”

Watkins responded: "We are in the mezzanine. We are in the main dome right now. We are rocking it. They are throwing grenades, they are fticking shooting people with paint balls. But we are in here."

Another person told Watkins to stay safe, then added: "Get it, Jess. Do your fucking thing. This is what we fucking [unintelligible] up for. Everything we fucking trained for."

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Rhodes has been portraying himself as a likely martyr. At an anti-immigration event in Texas last weekend, he told the audience: “I may go to jail soon. Not for anything I actually did, but for made-up crimes. There are some Oath Keepers right now along with Proud Boys and other patriots who are in D.C. who are sitting in jail denied bail despite the supposed right to a jury trial before you’re found guilty and presumption of innocence, were denied bail because the powers that be don’t like their political views.”

He also claimed innocence for his members. “If we actually intended to take over the Capitol, we’d have taken it, and we’d have brought guns,” Rhodes said. “That’s not why we were there that day. We were there to protect Trump supporters from antifa.”

[abqtommy]

1. Sounds a lot like treasonous conspiracy!

[yonder]

2. "We were there to protect Trump supporters from antifa."

Sounds like they needed better 'intelligence'.