DOJ reveals new Signal messages from Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes...will remain in jail.

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DOJ reveals new Signal messages from Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes as judge rules he will remain in jail

(CNN)Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes will be held in jail while he awaits trial, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled on Friday after prosecutors revealed new Signal app messages where Rhodes allegedly called January 6 "the final nail in the coffin of our republic" and instructed his followers to prepare for violence.

The messages from the encrypted app, which were presented during hearings Wednesday and Friday, allegedly show how Rhodes advocated for then-President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. If Trump didn't, prosecutors allege, Rhodes repeatedly suggested that his followers should be ready to act without Trump's support.

"Be prepared for a major letdown on the 6th to the 8th, and be ready to do it ourselves," one message read aloud in court said.

"He must know that if he doesn't act, we will. He has to understand that we will have no choice," said another message.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/18/politics/doj-reveals-new-messages-oath-keepers-leader-stewart-rhodes/index.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Note the key assumption: Rhodes somehow has the ear of tRump without being a public figure. . . .nt

[maxrandb]

2. Jared, Ivanka and Donnie Dipshit

"Wait, what, they can obtain records of encrypted apps?"

[usonian]

3. Probably a screen-shot

from a recipient.

[L. Coyote]

4. They had a search warrant on him, right? Maybe from his devices?