Prosecutors said jurors saw a 'mountain of evidence' that Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes and four others plotted to use force to stop the transfer of the presidency to Joe Biden. A defense attorney said no conspiracy was proved.
and four others, telling jurors that a"mountain of evidence" shows the defendants plotted to use force to stop the transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden.
Their trial is the most consequential so far to come out of the investigation into the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. She said Americans had been divided and angry over election results before in U.S. history, but nevertheless for two centuries power had been peacefully transferred because people ultimately respected the rule of law."A mountain of evidence has shown that these five defendants joined together and agreed to do whatever necessary, up to and including the use of force, to stop the lawful transfer of power to Joe Biden," she said.
Rhodes, she said, was the"orchestrator of this conspiracy and the architect" of the plan to block the certification, while the other defendants played various other leadership roles.Rakoczy reminded the jury of inflammatory messages Rhodes sent in the weeks and days leading up to Jan. 6, and on the day itself, and urged the jury not to become"numb" to such rhetoric.
"Is it inappropriate? Yeah. A lot of it. Is it something we wish wouldn't be done. Absolutely," he added."But all of them talking about the same topic is not a meeting of the mind."
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