Oath Keepers Anticipated "a Bloody and Desperate Fight" to Overturn the Election for Trump

[Jilly_in_VA]

In the year since the January 6 insurrection, a steady accumulation of evidence from federal criminal investigations, congressional testimony, public video footage, and other sources has revealed that the attack on Congress incited by Donald Trump included numerous armed extremists. Some of the starkest details have emerged from the ongoing prosecution of defendants who identify as Oath Keepers, a far-right militia network founded by Stewart Rhodes, who is among a group of 11 people charged with seditious conspiracy against the US government.

In court filings this week, the Justice Department further revealed the scope of the alleged plot by Oath Keepers to mobilize heavily armed “quick reaction forces” (also known as “QRFs”) just outside of downtown Washington, part of a plan to unleash violence in the nation’s capital and stop the lawful transfer of the presidency to Joe Biden. One filing, a detention memo in the case against Oath Keeper Edwards Vallejo of Arizona, hints that more people could yet be charged in connection with the conspiracy. Evidence it contains also shows that extremists have embraced Trump’s most recent rhetoric reinforcing the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him through fraud, messaging that continues to fuel a violent far-right movement.

Vallejo was arrested on January 13, as was Rhodes, the latest in a lengthy list of Oath Keepers facing conspiracy and sedition charges. According to the Justice Department, “Vallejo and his co-conspirators coordinated at least three regional QRF teams stationed at a Comfort Inn in Arlington, Virginia, to support the co-conspirators’ plot and the January 6 Capitol attack. The QRF teams guarded an arsenal of firearms and related equipment and were prepared to speed those weapons into the hands of co-conspirators on the ground in Washington, D.C., when directed by Rhodes or other conspiracy leaders.”

Shortly after the 2020 election, in an encrypted “Leadership Intel Chat” with fellow Oath Keepers, Rhodes had begun talking up “a civil war” and “a bloody and desperate fight” if Biden were to become president. Three days before the insurrection, prosecutors allege, Rhodes informed a co-conspirator by encrypted message, “We WILL have a QRF. This situation calls for it.” The alleged QRF plotters traveled to the nation’s capital from Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona, among other states, according to court documents:

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/01/oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-guns-january-6-qrf-trump/
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These goddam traitors need to be rounded up and locked up in Leavenworth. Or Gitmo.

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1. And even at that, with the deck heavily stacked in their favor, they failed

They went up against a badly out-manned and out-gunned adversary, had the element of surprise, and friendlies in several key positions to hold up aid and relief to their adversaries.

And they still lost. The former guy couldn't swing it for them, even holding back the troops so his terrorists would have better chance of achieving their objective. And they still failed.

Try 'em, convict 'em, and send them to prison for a long time.

[MerryHolidays]

2. K&R nt