How A Serbian Scientist Helped Inspire The Oath Keepers To March On The Capitol

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MUST READ: Wild interview with the Serbian scientist whose viral video and direct advice helped inspire the Oath Keepers to storm the US capitol. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/aleksandar-savic-oath-keepers-jan-6… via @TPM

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How A Serbian Scientist Helped Inspire The Oath Keepers To March On The Capitol
Days after the November 2020 election, the Oath Keepers were preparing. The...
4:17 PM · Jan 18, 2022

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Days after the November 2020 election, the Oath Keepers were preparing.

The group’s leader Stewart Rhodes had been warning of conflicts around the election — including a potential “civil war” — for months. But by Nov. 7, the day major news networks called the election for Biden, prosecutors allege, Rhodes had a plan.

The target was to be the U.S. Capitol. According to a federal grand jury indictment last week, Rhodes shared his plan to march on the Capitol after coming across a video titled “STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE, HOW WE WON WHEN MILOSEVIC STOLE OUR ELECTIONS.” It was a guide to overturning Joe Biden’s election, citing the model of the popular revolt which ended the rule of Slobodan Milosevic twenty years earlier.

Rhodes sent that video to a group of Oath Keepers, prosecutors say, and claimed to be in contact with the video’s creator who was advising his group with a plan of action.

An archived Nov. 11, 2020 version of the Oath Keepers’ website shows a letter from Rhodes embedded with the same video, thanking its creator, a “patriot from Serbia,” for “show[ing] us the way.”

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[Hoyt]

1. So, was it trump, this guy, or someone else who was behind Jan 6?

[crickets]

2. Aleksandar Savic sounds like a real peach,

not full of himself at all. He talks of himself in the same breath with Tesla and Solzhenitsyn when explaining why he came to the US. 🙄

When asked whether he thought there was legitimate cause to delay the certification of the election that day, Savic grew less strident.

“I have no idea what happened,” he said. “I don’t have enough information. As a scientist, without information, I cannot say anything. This is what I was trained for.”

Jackass, you sent the video well in advance. You engaged in written correspondence with Rhodes about this. Of course you purposely encouraged exactly what they attempted. In spite of you, they failed.

Hope you're happy living free in Texas now. Gormless idiot.