The Stewart Rhodes Trial — Lies and Fantasy by an Overzealous DOJ
“They concocted a plan for an armed rise up to shatter a bedrock of American democracy,” stated prosecutor Jeffrey Nestler in his opening remarks Monday.
Because the jury trial for Oathkeepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell started, the federal government continued enjoying to the sensitivities of a jury saturated with media messages instilling fear from the events of Jan. 6.
“They didn’t go to the Capitol to defend or assist. They went to assault,” Nestler stated.
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Rhodes and others have been charged with seditious conspiracy together with 4-6 different respective counts earlier this yr. Seditious conspiracy carries a most jail sentence of 20 years.
Rhodes-the chief of a nationwide group selling restricted government-is accused of coordinating an overthrow the federal government. Nonetheless, members of his group have been offering safety to audio system on the Cease the Steal Rally.
The federal government alleges he dedicated crimes on the idea of constructing journey plans to DC, buying tactical gear, and stating private beliefs to “defend the Structure in opposition to all enemies overseas and home” in private and non-private conversations. As well as, it questions his use of the twond Modification to buy firearms after Jan. 6.
A courtroom observer witnessed Rhodes’ legal professional, Phillip Linder, bombarded by objections from the federal government 5 instances in lower than 10 minutes. Nonetheless, Linder defined the Oathkeepers’ objective was to to confront Antifa in the event that they have been there.
Caldwell’s legal professional, David Fischer, confirmed how all through the group’s existence, there was by no means a difficulty of violence. Oathkeepers volunteers used their navy expertise to supply safety in the course of the Hurricane Harvey cleanup and over a dozen pure disasters.
Fischer additionally defined the Oathkeepers’ weapons location-outside of DC- was merely to react in an emergency. He indicated the federal government misinterpret or over-read proof early in its failed investigation of Caldwell. Caldwell and others in his case have been indicted six instances. Prosecutors solid the disabled veteran with extreme medical points as “the primary suspect,” regardless of the actual fact he by no means entered the Capitol.
“They [government prosecutors] selectively edit and take probably the most outrageous statements that politically attuned and politically lively folks make,” Fischer stated.
The present Rhodes trial entails the identical decide, prosecutors, and first defendants because the preliminary Caldwell case.
This text was initially printed AmericanGulag.org.
The Gateway Pundit published several interviews with Stewart Rhodes over the previous yr.
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