Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes testified in his own defense in his federal trial that he was not part of planning the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. He and 4 other defendants are charged with seditious conspiracy.
Susan Walsh/APStewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in 2017.Stewart Rhodes has testified in his own defense in his federal trial that he was not part of planning the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol and that members of the far-right Oath Keepers group who busted into the building made a"stupid" decision.
Under questioning by his lawyer, Rhodes denied he had a plan to"disrupt the Capitol," saying,"It was nowhere in the mission scope at all." Rhodes said no when his attorney asked,"You didn't control, ask for or have anything to do with" forces on standby in Virginia to bring weapons into Washington, D.C. Rhodes said he had delegated most of the oversight of the Oath Keepers operation that day and warned members of the group to be careful about what they brought into D.C., given the city's strict gun laws.
Rhodes testified that he was in a hotel room when he got a call telling him that the Capitol had been breached, and that he asked,"Who?" He said the caller, another Oath Keeper, replied,"Trump supporters." Rhodes said he later went to the Capitol grounds.
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