"The final defense is us and our rifles": Oath Keepers leaders talked of taking up arms days after Biden's victory
CBSN
Washington – In the days after media outlets calculated that Joe Biden had won the 2020 presidential election, prosecutors allege members of the far-right Oath Keepers group, including founder Stewart Rhodes, were making calculations of their own: how best to mount a resistance to Joe Biden's presidency and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.
FBI Special Agent Michael Palian — assigned to investigate the group's role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack – told a Washington, D.C., jury on Tuesday that records and text messages from Nov. 9, 2020, show that Rhodes and other Oath Keepers convened a call to discuss where their fight would go next.
Attributing Biden's victory to unfounded claims of voter fraud, Rhodes allegedly stated that the voter fraud was an "insurrection that needed to be suppressed."
