The leader of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers spoke just days after Election Day about a potentially violent conflict involving Trump supporters and a presidential declaration of the Insurrection Act, a new superseding federal indictment alleged.
Haven’t charged him.
Yet!
The failure of the coup is on Antifa. If they had showed up and gone “kinetic,” the Oaf Creepers might have gotten the civil war they so desperately want.
The lack of an enemy on the ground reduced the insurrectionists to a bunch of tourists.
Stewart Rhodes is one of the club. There are a helluva lot of police, prosecutors and law enforcement agency personnel that feel he’s a kindred soul. Kinda difficult to come down hard on your brother in the struggle against the Other.
Probably a big reason why Trump didn’t pardon the whole group of rioters was that his (at least somewhat competent) lawyers warned him that being thus associated with calling up an insurrection would put him, personally, in legal jeopardy.
Plus, he’s always regarded his followers as suckers and rubes, anyway.
I can’t figure out why Trump would call in the pretend soldiers when he had thousands of real ones handy? And they have better weapons! These guys really have no clue.
I don’t think “kinetic” means what he thinks it means. Sounds like Antifa was gonna show up and do Pilates or something. Which would, I’ll grant you, be a hell of a way to start a war.
The real ones signaled they weren’t going to play.
It appears the Oathkeepers and Proud Boys expected Trump to declare an insurrection and call for martial law, but certainly no coordination here folks. Nope, nothing to see here. And don’t let the “stand back and stand by” comment fool you into thinking otherwise.
I actually think DoJ is playing it close to the vest with Rhodes because once you charge him, you’re a hairs breadth from Trump’s inner circle.
He never though he’d be elected
He never thought there would be an insurrection
It’s all a grift. He wants to fund raise off of running around a gasoline soaked room with a lit match.
What could go wrong?
Oath keepers are such naive little boobs.
I still don’t understand why they thought Antifa would show up to the Capitol to disrupt Congress from rubber-stamping Biden’s victory. What was Antifa supposed to be objecting to? What am I missing? A false-flag operation?
With respect: I’ll bet you $5 (real dollars, not Trump Bucks) that Rhodes is or will be a cooperator. They’re not holding off charging him for the reason you cite.
That, and/or the above: he’s already cooperating, and Feds are sending a signal to all his co-conspirators that they better get in and start flipping themselves.
You’d think that would clue them that this was totally illegitimate. Guess they love their role-playing too much to reason it out.
He’s going to spend at least a couple decades in prison. It is blindingly obvious that they’re targeting him for major criminal conspiracy charges, and the only reason they have not indicted him yet is that they’re still working the investigation. He’s toast, not a golden child.
I got nothin’. These people seem to spend an awful lot of time keeping the elephants away.
Yeah. These guys filter out everything they don’t want to be true. Confirmation bias consumes them.
They had been fear-mongering about BLM “rioters” and anti-fascists for months and trying to make them the “enemy”.
Nah. You can cut someone’s throat while they’re in bed sleeping and be out in less than 20 years. His jail time will be limited to however many hours it takes him to make bail after (if) he’s arrested. Then the FBI and DOJ will proceed to pull some bungled investigation and prosecution, ala the Bundy Crew disaster, and it’ll all get buried in the back yard.
I was reading where the original intent of the presidents daily briefing was to provide the president with new intelligence warranting attention and analysis of sensitive international situations.
I bet that’s not the case so much anymore.