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Washington (AFP) - When a Donald Trump supporter was killed by police after shooting up an FBI office in the US Midwest, investigators turned to the assailant's social media to confirm a motive they already feared.

Five leaders of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia that played a leading role in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, went on trial last week in Washington.

WASHINGTON — The Oath Keepers threatened a “bloody civil war” against a “puppet regime” if Joe Biden took the White House from Donald Trump, according to chat messages shown to jurors in the first Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy trial.

Founder Stewart Rhodes claimed to have the phone number of an agent who had contact with Donald Trump

Prosecutors in the trial of five Oath Keepers members on Friday showed a jury fresh evidence that the right-wing militia group's founder Stewart Rhodes told his followers ahead of last year's U.S. Capitol attack there would be a "bloody" war if then-President Donald Trump failed to reverse his 2020 election…

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes told a member of the extremist group before the 2020 election that he had a contact in the Secret Service

Stewart Rhodes all but promised his followers he had "one neat trick" to evade criminal charges for sedition

WASHINGTON — Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes was recorded saying at a meeting of his far-right group days after the 2020 election that their “mission” was to travel to Washington to stand up against what he viewed as a fraudulent presidential race.

Messages show that hours after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group was discussing how to push President Donald Trump to go further in his fight to cling to power