The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group and four associates planned for an “armed rebellion” to stop the transfer of presidential power on January 6, 2021, prosecutors have told jurors, in a plot to stop the transfer of US presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
At the start of the most serious case to reach trial yet in the attack on the United States Capitol, assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Nestler delivered his opening statement on Monday in Washington, DC’s federal court in the trial of Stewart Rhodes and four others charged with seditious conspiracy and other felonies.
“Their goal was to stop by whatever means necessary the lawful transfer of presidential power, including by taking up arms against the United States government,” he said. “They concocted a plan for armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy.”
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