Prosecutors allege Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes engaged in a weeks-long plan to resist Biden's presidency and push Trump to act

Washington – In the months before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, prosecutors say Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes' rhetoric grew more desperate and more violent, calling on then-President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to enable an armed resistance against a rogue government. 

"It will be 1776 all over again," Rhodes allegedly wrote in an Oath Keepers leadership message group. "Force on force is the way to go."

Invoking the act would have meant that Trump could temporarily use the military for civilian law enforcement — which otherwise has been banned since the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. In the eyes of the Oath Keepers, the rogue government to be stopped was the incoming Biden administration.