Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.
- Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. A member of the far-right Oath Keepers movement who entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot told a federal court judge and jury on Monday that upon entering the building he and fellow Oath Keepers felt elated. But now, he only feels ashamed.
Young, who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and obstruction and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors investigating the riot, told the jury that before the 2020 election he spent “way too much time” on YouTube and Facebook watching election fraud propaganda. He said he watched as much as two to six hours a day, and became “really invested” in what was going on, which he said clouded his judgment.
Young said that Kelly Meggs, an Oath Keepers leader from Florida and defendant in the current trial, told him and his group to move quickly because they were going to rendezvous with Rhodes. Young testified that Meggs told him that the Capitol building had been breached, and said something like “we’re in.
He subsequently deleted Signal, an encoded messaging app used by the Oath Keepers, from his phone as well as his Facebook account. Under questioning from a defense lawyer, Young acknowledged that before the riot, he was unaware of any explicit plan or intent on the Oath Keepers’ part to breach the Capitol and that the move to do so was just a “stupid, let's do this thing. ... We didn’t explicitly say we were going to go in. We all just went in. It was spontaneous.”
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