After a month of testimony, the government has rested its case against Oath Keepers’ founder and four other members of the far-right group who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The trial is the most consequential yet to emerge from the Justice Department's sprawling investigation into the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Rhodes and the other defendants are accused of plotting to use force to prevent Joe Biden from taking office as president.
Rhodes and his alleged co-conspirators — Jessica Watkins, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson and Thomas Caldwell — are charged with seditious conspiracy, obstruction and other offenses in connection with Jan. 6. Prosecutors say the conspiracy didn't end on Jan. 6, but instead continued through Biden's inauguration. The government used one of its last witnesses to introduce critical evidence on that front.
Alpers said that during the meeting Rhodes typed out on Alpers' cellphone a message for Trump, in which Rhodes urged Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to remain in power. Prosecutors also played clips of the recording Alpers made of the meeting. In one snippet, Rhodes can be heard saying:"If he's not going to do the right thing, and he's just gonna let himself be removed illegally, then we should have brought rifles. We could have fixed it right then and there. I'd hang f****** Pelosi from the lamppost.
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