The man behind a far-right anti-government militia whose members breached the halls of Congress on 6 January, 2021 said they made a “stupid” decision to do so.
While testifying in his own defence in a trial on charges of seditious conspiracy against the government, Stewart Rhodes denied that his Oath Keepers militia had ever planned to storm the US Capitol, after federal prosecutors spent the last several weeks reading dozens of text messages showing the group’s members preparing for violent action that day.
