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New indictment reveals Oath Keepers chaotic drive to Capitol, flood of communications on Jan. 6
Apr 02, 2021 7:37pm Eastern Daylight Time by David Neiwert, Daily Kos Staff
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/2/2024203/-New-indictment-reveals-Oath-Keepers-chaotic-drive-to-Capitol-flood-of-communications-on-Jan-6
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Between careering around the streets of Washington, D.C., in commandeered golf carts and exchanging nearly 20 phone calls, the Oath Keepers and their leaders were very busy fellows in the hours and minutes leading up to the invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in which they played leading roles, according to a filing this week by federal prosecutors.
The new indictment filed Thursday adds two Oath Keepers who acted as bodyguards for former Donald Trump aide Roger Stone at the pro-Trump rally that day, Robert Minuta and Joshua James, to the conspiracy case that now includes 12 Oath Keepersbut so far, not the paramilitary organizations founder, Stewart Rhodes. However, the new filing lays out the central role Rhodes (identified only as Person 1) in coordinating his members as they created a stack formation that overwhelmed police barricades.
The document describes a harrowing ride by Minuta, James, and others in a group of golf carts they took to get to the Capitol through D.C. traffic. Minuta, dressed in battle apparelhard-knuckle tactical gloves, ballistic goggles, a radio with an earpiece and bear spray apparently texted a running commentary as the passenger.
Patriots are storming the Capitol building; theres violence against patriots by the D.C. police; so were en route in a grand theft auto golf cart to the Capitol building right now . . . its going down, guys; its literally going down right now Patriots storming the Capitol building . . . Minuta allegedly stated during the drive.
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(70,497 posts)And Keystone Kops: golf carts with "battle" costumes.
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(82,849 posts)Unlike Grand Theft Auto, boys, you're not going to get a reset. And jail is going to be very real.