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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alanna Durkin Richer and Lindsay Whitehurst

Jan. 6 trial highlights missed warnings before Capitol siege

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

In a telephone call days after the 2020 election, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes urged followers to go to Washington and fight to keep President Donald Trump in office.

A concerned member of the extremist group began recording because, as he would later tell jurors in the current seditious conspiracy trial of Rhodes and four associates, it sounded as if they were “going to war against the United States government.”

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