Top Oath Keeper reveals a key secret of Jan. 6

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A key Oath Keepers leader makes clear what many of us expected all along - that main players on Jan. 6 expected Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, the prelude to a coup. The big question now: What more evidence does Merrick Garland need?

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Top Oath Keeper reveals a key secret of Jan. 6 | Will Bunch Newsletter
New questions about what Donald Trump was — or wasn’t — doing on Jan. 6.
9:37 AM · Feb 15, 2022

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/january-6-stewart-rhodes-sedition-oath-keepers-20220215.html

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It was easy to miss with all the bombs bursting in air and the rocket’s red glare of military jet fighters over Super Bowl LVI in Southern California this weekend, but a bombshell of a different sort went off some 3,000 miles to the east. In the nation’s capital, overlapping probes closed in on the truth about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

In a court filing seeking release from his jail cell, the best-known figure who’s been charged to date in the storming of the U.S. Capitol — Stewart Rhodes, longtime leader of the radical right-wing Oath Keepers, who played a key role in that day’s chaos — sought to defend his actions by lending credence to the notion that then-president Donald Trump was expected to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807. That would have allowed Trump to send in troops to quell the violence but also quite likely prevent that day’s certification of President Biden’s election victory. Simply put, it would’ve laid the foundation for a coup on U.S. soil.

In a 41-page filing seeking the pre-trial release of Rhodes, who was indicted on the serious charge of seditious conspiracy and taken into custody last month, his lawyers argue that Rhodes and his fellow Oath Keepers from as far away as Florida and Texas came to the D.C. area ahead of January 6 with rifles and suitcases full of ammunition for two reasons — neither of which involved storming the Capitol and preventing the certification. Instead, Rhodes’ attorneys argue, the Oath Keepers, many of whom are former military or ex-cops, were there to protect pro-Trump allies like his long-time adviser Roger Stone from expected clashes that week with leftists, or the so-called “antifa,” that never actually materialized.

More importantly, they claim the bulk of Rhodes’ armed men, calling themselves a “Quick Response Force,” or QRF, stayed outside of the capital district and waited at staging areas like a Comfort Inn in Arlington, Va. They say they only planned to enter the fray on Capitol Hill if Trump invoked the Insurrection Act, which they fully expected to happen. The lawyers said the QRFs finally gave up waiting for the presidential command and went to dinner at a nearby Olive Garden.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. "We are going to be heroes boys!"

Man-children playing at being race hero and spec ops warriors....wooooo.

Just scumbag racists and terrorists.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Pre-release DENIED

Charges still stand, Elmer, and pre-release is denied!

[gratuitous]

3. Do you get it now, Stewart?

You stick your neck out for your hero, and he can't be bothered. Sure, he watched you and dumb little buddies on the teevee, but lift a finger to help you? Take on some personal risk? As we've been telling you and your deluded pals, the former guy doesn't give a tin shit about you. Now you want to put the hat on him? Sorry, dumbass, he's long gone, and you're holding the bag. Too bad, so sad. You're going to get just what you deserve.

[Runningdawg]

4. You can bet the next GOP POTUS won't repeat TFGs "mistake".

What do you call a failed coup? A rehearsal.

[WA-03 Democrat]

5. So they wait all day to over throw the greatest

Democracy in the history of mankind and only to give up and go to Olive Garden.

These guys are bad to the bone.

Yeah social fucking media for enabling these seditious pretenders and great job Putin on using our 1st amendment so effectively against our self.

[Biophilic]

11. LOL this was exactly my take on this news. Yeah, Olive Garden, where all discouraged

insurrectionists go for dinner. Somehow it seems sooooo anticlimactic. Sort of like the jerks themselves. Maybe we do live in a cartoon.

[Samrob]

6. They very good at what they do: Make up stuff as they go along. nt

[onethatcares]

7. and they brought the "Olive Garden" into it

As I watch todays comments about tfg going down I'm smiling big larger than life.

To see the oaf keepers wearing out and going for the early turd special really cracked me up.

Leave it to DU to be the first to use "Meal Team Six" in ref to this bunch.

[Kaleva]

9. If we dig deeper, we may find instances of breast feeding.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Kick and rec for Trump's yeoman-like cultists.

[Emile]

10. This should do do it for Merrick Garland. I look for an arrest

any day now!

[leftieNanner]

12. All of them

100% expected counter protesters which would have given The Orange Loser to use the Insurrection Act to bring in the military. Only we outsmarted him and stayed home.

[LiberalFighter]

13. All of them need to lose all of their military and law enforcement pension

And other benefits.

[multigraincracker]

14. Inquirer? Not the one at the check out in the store, I hope.

Must be lots of inquirers. Perhaps Rump owes them money too.