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Rhiannon12866

(205,877 posts) Mon Oct 3, 2022, 02:05 AM Oct 2022

'This Is The Big One': Oath Keepers Trial To Set The Tone For Jan. 6 Cases - American Voices - MSNBC

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four members of his militia will be the first Capitol rioters tried on seditious conspiracy charges. Hugo Lowell, congressional reporter for The Guardian; Melissa Murray, NYU law professor and Eugene Daniels, Politico White House reporter, discuss how Rhodes’ legal defense could have “huge consequences” for the insurrection investigation. - Aired on 10/02/2022.

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Rhodes' argument that here that he didn't commit sedition because his "militia" was responding to Martin68 Oct 2022 #1

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1. Rhodes' argument that here that he didn't commit sedition because his "militia" was responding to

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Mon Oct 3, 2022, 05:05 PM

Oct 2022

a direct order from the president sounds to me like a way to connect Trump directly to the planning, gathering, and violence committed by Oath Keepers, The Proud Boys, and others who joined them in the attack. I doubt a jury will buy Rhodes' contention that Trump's "ordering" them to prevent the electoral count frees him from guilt. But it could be a way to get Trump for conspiracy and encouraging violence against Congress.

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