Kellye SoRelle, one of the lawyers for the Oath Keepers militia group, was indicted by a grand jury for crimes relating to the January 6 Capitol Riot. Kellye joins Stewart Rhodes, in the J6 defendants' club. She didn't quite make it to the sedition tier, but she was apparently with Rhodes the entire day of the Capitol Riot.
Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Nestler said during his opening statement for the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four of his merry band of fellow Oaths that began on MO 10/03, had "concocted a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy" by attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
The Oath Keepers' attorneys insisted that their clients hadn't done anything illegal on J6, that they had simply exercised their rights to free speech. They were simply in DC as a "peacekeeping force" that would be ready to back up Donald Trump in case he invoked the Insurrection Act and deputized them to preserve order.
Nestler told the jury that the five defendants "said out loud and in writing what they planned to do,” and that “When the opportunity finally presented itself -they sprang into action" by highlighting calls Rhodes made for "bloody revolution" and used video taken on J6 to identify the defendants and place them at the Capitol, including video of defendant Kelly Meggs wearing a charming patch that read, "I don’t believe in anything, I’m just here for the violence."
Meggs allegedly led a group inside the Capitol that tried to find House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Probably to taunt her, is all.)
Once January 6 arrived and Trump hadn't invoked Martial law, Rhodes and crew went ahead with their plans to invade the Capitol anyway. In a message to his followers that day, Rhodes wrote, referring to Trump, "I see no intent by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it into their own hands.”
As Andrew Clyde (R-GA) stated on the floor of The House of Representatives, J6 "more closely resembled a 'normal tourist visit' than a deadly attack." Which of course, is how anti-democracy fascist Republicans view the J6 attack on our nation’s Capitol.
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