First Sedition Guilty Plea Reveals New Details On Oath Keeper Leader’s Role In Jan. 6 Attack

One of the members of the far-right Oath Keepers who’ve been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Capitol insurrection pleaded guilty on Wednesday, making him the first Jan. 6 defendant to admit to those more serious charges.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1407492

So while James was off galavanting around the country, during the first part of vaccinations, who was covering his expenses? Also would love to see James and Rhoades tax returns for the last 5 years. Failing to report income, writing off “business expenses” might be interesting to the IRS if the IRS had the man power to look into these guys.

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I know this is a serious subject and these people are dangerous but this “ Later that day, James went to the Olive Garden” is hilarious

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Oh Stewie you have been a very naughty boy and now one of your playmates is a tattletale. No ice cream for you tonite.

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According to prosecutors, Rhodes allegedly ordered James to take firearms, ammunition, burner phones and other equipment back home to Alabama, prepare to distribute it among other Oath Keepers – and prepare for violence in the event of a civil war.

Who did this handful of Tinpot pisants think they were going to fight? Average Americans? Local Law Enforcement? The Army? If they started first thing in the morning, they would not make it past the first Waffle House.

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I completely agree. It’s also the crowning touch that makes it art.

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Hey, there’s no such thing as bad publicity! Right, Olive Garden? :laughing:

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Looks as if the JanSix Committee is working its way towards the top of the conspiracy. Now, what we need is an Attorney General with a cut throat prosecutorial mentality. Were another Supreme Court Justice to retire – or perhaps Clarence “Pubic Hair” Thomas might be impeached – Merrick Garland could be elevated out of his current position and a more energetic AG put into his place?

Hey, they were celebrating! Otherwise, it would have been Waffle House fer sure.

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Obviously this means Donald Trump will be in prison by Christmas. Obviously.

It’s nearly as funny as if he’d said he went to Disneyland.

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In response to the “What is Garland doing?” crowd - he’s doing this.
He’s wisely starting at the bottom and working his way up.
Next step up from Rhodes is Roger Stone. Rhodes is under a bit of pressure right now, since this filing states in no uncertain terms that they have him by the balls.

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Sounds like a conspiracy to me! This is the tip of the iceberg of criminality being exposed.

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Sounds a bit like the time Jimmy Kimmel was the entertainment at the WHCD during the Obama administration. NJ Governor Chris Christie was in the audience and poked fun at Christie reminding him that New Jersey was the “Garden State,” not the “Olive Garden State.” Rhodes looks like he enjoys bellying up to the trough, much like Christie!

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They’re all family at the Olive Garden.

In this case, treasonous white supremacist family, but still family.

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That’s the thing about these ammosexuals. They think life is just another game of Call of Duty. Completely delusional.

Their desperation, their blood. I suppose Rhodes imagines the New England Patriots will change their logo to his face, should he die “defending his freedom.”

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You assume that Rhodes, the toy soldier who stayed out of the Capitol so as not to commit a physical crime himself, has balls. I wouldn’t be so sure.

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Couple more juicy details from his statement of offense.

After they decided to scarper, Rhodes put his cell phone in someone else’s car to make it harder for the feds to find him:

Rhodes left his mobile phone with one person and departed with another person in that person’s car so that law enforcement could not locate and arrest him.

Also, this sure sounds like conspiracy to destroy evidence to me:

On January 8, 2021, James received a Signal message, in a group chat that included Rhodes, from an individual he understood to be an attorney for the Oath Keepers that stated, “STEWART: YOU ALL NEED TO DELETE ANY OF YOUR COMMENTS REGARDING WHO DID WHAT. You are under zero obligation to leave them up. You/we have not yet gotten a preservation order instructing us to retain those chat comments. So DELETE THEM. I can’t delete them because this is a legacy Signal chat that doesn’t let me delete comments. Only the comment author can delete a comment. So GET BUSY. DELETE your self-incriminating comments or those that can incriminate others. Start now …”:

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The breadsticks can be trusted.

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He bought and distributed thousands of dollars of guns and ammunition on more than one occasion, but he has to pay $2000 for the (over 1.4 millions dollars) of damage to the Capital?
Also, what’s with saying that “seditious conspiracy” is analogous to treason but the guidelines for sentencing are between 87 and 100 MONTHS?

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