The jury is expected to begin deliberations Monday, after closing statements from the defense conclude.
Rhodes' attorney sought to downplay his violent rhetoric in the run-up to Jan. 6, describing it as "venting" and insisting there was no agreement or conspiracy. Defense attorney James Lee Bright said Rhodes' language was focused on persuading Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act over what he saw as a stolen election.
Defense attorneys have spent weeks hammering prosecutors' relative lack of evidence that the Oath Keepers had an explicit plan to attack the Capitol. Rhodes, who is from Texas,were only in Washington to provide security for right-wing figures including Roger Stone. Those Oath Keepers who did enter the Capitol went rogue and were "stupid," he said.
"The way they have appointed themselves to be above the law is why they are here today," she said. "The sense of entitlement that led to frustration followed by rage and then violence – that is the story of this conspiracy." "You’re either the Keystone Cops of insurrectionists, or there is no insurrection," he told jurors, referring to the inept police officers of silent movies., of Woodstock, Ohio, echoed that her actions that day were "really stupid" but maintained she was not part of a plan and was "swept along" with the mob, which she likened to a crowd gathered at a store for a sale on the popular shopping day known as Black Friday.
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