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https://www.alternet.org/smartnews/trump-waco/

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Experts: Trump is encouraging violence with Waco campaign rally on 30th anniversary of deadly siege

David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement March 18, 2023

Early Friday evening Donald Trump announced he will hold a campaign rally in Waco on March 25, which falls during the 30th anniversary of the 51-day deadly siege in that Texas community. Barely more than 12 hours later the one-term ex-president under at least four criminal investigations posted a statement that some, including legal experts, warn is encouraging or inciting violence, or is “a call for violence,” after claiming he will be arrested on Tuesday.

For those who would like a refresher, in 1993 agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) raided the headquarters of religious cult leader David Koresh and his Branch Davidians. Armed with warrants, federal agents targeted the compound searching for stockpiled firearms. By the end of the standoff, four ATF agents and 82 Branch Davidians had been killed.

Two years later The New York Times pointed to right-wing reaction to that raid, and to the Ruby Ridge siege, as the basis for Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which the FBI called “the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s history.” 168 people, including 19 children, were killed that day.

Marcy Wheeler, a well-respected journalist who writes about civil liberties and national security, Saturday morning warned: “If you want to talk about Trump inciting violence, it’s probably plenty early to point out that Trump staged a rally in Waco during the 30 year anniversary of the siege.”

READ MORE: ‘A BFD’: Legal Experts Say Judge Ordering Ex-President’s Attorney to Testify Means ‘Trump Probably Committed Crimes’

NBC News presidential historian and author of ten books, Michael Beschloss, summed it up: “So Trump is planning his first campaign rally for Waco on thirtieth anniversary of the siege where a cult leader challenged the authority of the federal government and threatened violence.”

Saturday morning, in several lengthy all-caps rage posts on his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed he was being arrested on Tuesday, and demanded his followers “protest, take our nation back!”

Retired FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi, now a well-known NBC News national security analyst, wrote: “Cult leader to hold rally where wanted cult leader refused to surrender to feds 30 years ago, killed ATF agents, and ran deadly stand-off where at least 75 died: Donald Trump will host first 2024 presidential rally in Waco.”

Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok, who led the Bureau’s investigation of Russia’s attack on America’s 2016 presidential election and was targeted by Trump, who demanded his firing, pointed to a passage in another of Trump’s rage posts from Saturday morning, highlighting this phrase: “with no retribution.”

Trump, in his Saturday morning rage posts, offered support for the more than 1000 January 6 rioters and insurrectionists who have been arrested.

“American patriots are being arrested & held in captivity like animals, while criminals & leftist thugs are allowed to roam the streets, killing & burning with no retribution,” he wrote.

That line echoes his now-infamous speech earlier this month at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“In 2016, I declared, ‘I am your voice,’” Trump declared. “Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”

On December 19, 2020, Trump posted a now-infamous tweet, saying: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” and “Be there, will be wild!”

READ MORE: Trump’s Tuesday ‘Arrest’ Freak-Out Will Come Back to Haunt Him in Court: Legal Expert

Strzok says Saturday’s “retribution” reference is “Will be wild 2.0,” referring to Trump’s December 2020 tweet that’s widely seen as a “call to arms,” including by the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.

Legal, national security, and political experts are warning that Trump is encouraging or inciting violence, all over again.

“Trump also calls on his supporters to ‘PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!’—words that echo the language he used to encourage violence in the days leading up to the events of Jan. 6, 2021,” says Anna Bower, who writes for Lawfare Blog and has been reporting on Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’ election fraud investigation into Trump.

“To be clear: Trump is encouraging violence,” adds Bower. “It’s a move ripped from his Jan. 6 playbook, when he told supporters at the Capitol ‘..if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.’ His conduct was contemptible then; it remains contemptible now.”

That “fight like hell” remark is echoed in another comment Trump made recently, as Strzok points out.

Responding to news five local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies are coordinating security for if and when Trump is indicted, Strzok writes:

“So if indicted, law enforcement is worried about violence from the followers of the guy telling his followers two weeks ago, ‘This is the final battle, they know it…Either they win or we win. And if they win, we no longer have a country’?This is the stuff of failed states.”

Olivia Troye, a former Dept. of Homeland Security official who also worked on national security and homeland security at the National Counterterrorism Center during the Trump administration, issued this warning: “Trump has issued a call for violence. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Republicans need to publicly rebuke this dangerous rhetoric immediately.”

Donald Moynihan, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy professor, says, “The thing about Trump, is that you never can be sure when it all might tilt over into political violence. Because for sure, that is how some of his followers will read ‘take our nation back’ in the context of his possible arrest.”

Top national security attorney Brad Moss says: “Trump is trying to incite another mob for next week.”

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen told The New York Post on Saturday, “Donald would have no reason to put out the statement unless he has been contacted by the [office of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg] and advised accordingly.”

“Donald’s post is eerily similar to his battle cry prior to the January 6th insurrection; including calling for protest,” he added. “By doing so, Donald is hoping to rile his base, witness another violent clash on his behalf and profit from it by soliciting contributions.”

Author and political commentator Jared Yates Sexton, who covered the Trump 2016 campaign and hosts a live weekly podcast, issued this warning:

“For everyone who has spent years now trying to argue that Donald Trump isn’t a fascist or a demagogue, open your eyes. Facing indictment he’s calling for unrest and violence. Exactly as he did when he was soundly beaten in an election. We’re in this thing. Time to get serious.”

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Washington Examiner

NEWS

Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging election fraud 'more than sufficient' to swing victory to Trump

by Andrew Mark Miller, Deputy Social Media Editor |   | December 17, 2020

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Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro published a lengthy report Thursday outlining several examples of voting irregularities that are “more than sufficient” to swing the outcome of the election in President Trump’s favor.

The 36-page report “assesses the fairness and integrity of the 2020 Presidential Election by examining six dimensions of alleged election irregularities across six key battleground states” and concludes that “patterns of election irregularities ... are so consistent across the six battleground states that they suggest a coordinated strategy to, if not steal the election, strategically game the election process in such a way as to ... unfairly tilt the playing field in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket.”

The six dimensions of voting irregularities in the report include: outright voter fraud, ballot mishandling, contestable process fouls, equal protection clause violations, voting machine irregularities, and significant statistical anomalies.

All six of those voting issues were present in at least two key states, according to the report, and a total of six battleground states experienced multiple examples of the other dimensions.

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“Evidence used to conduct this assessment includes more than 50 lawsuits and judicial rulings, thousands of affidavits and declarations, testimony in a variety of state venues, published analyses by think tanks and legal centers, videos and photos, public comments, and extensive press coverage,” the report claims.

Additionally, the report cites affidavits alleging the exploitation of the elderly and the infirm by “effectively hijacking their identities and votes” and accuses Democrats of using the coronavirus pandemic to relax voter ID requirements to the point that ballot harvesting and fraud could slip by unnoticed.

The report outlined incidents in the key states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where ballots allegedly were illegally harvested and dumped into drop boxes.

The election was marred with examples of dead people voting, according to the report.

“In Pennsylvania, for example, a statistical analysis conducted by the Trump Campaign matching voter rolls to public obituaries found what appears to be over 8,000 confirmed dead voters successfully casting mail-in ballots,” the report claims. “In Georgia — underscoring the critical role any given category of election irregularities might play in determining the outcome — the estimated number of alleged deceased individuals casting votes almost exactly equals the Biden victory margin."

The report concludes: “The ballots in question because of the identified election irregularities are more than sufficient to swing the outcome in favor of President Trump should even a relatively small portion of these ballots be ruled illegal.”

Navarro, who worked on the report in a private capacity, is scheduled to hold a news conference at 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday to discuss the findings.

Trump has launched legal battles across the country since the November election, which has been called for President-elect Joe Biden by all major news networks and certified by the Electoral College, and as recently as this week stated that it’s “too soon to give up.”

Dozens of legal challenges across the country, however, have been lost, and the Supreme Court has declined to hear cases from both Texas and Pennsylvania challenging the election, which Trump’s supporters have decried as a politically motivated ducking.

Several Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have broken with the president and conceded that Biden is the winner of the election. McConnell congratulated Biden on Wednesday, declaring that “the Electoral College has spoken.”

Additionally, Biden slammed claims of voter fraud this week, saying, "Thankfully, a unanimous Supreme Court immediately and completely rejected" efforts to overturn the election.

News 2020 Elections Joe Biden Peter Navarro Donald Trump Voter Fraud Campaign 2020 Campaigns White House

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...The 36-page report “assesses the fairness and integrity of the 2020 Presidential Election by examining six dimensions of alleged election irregularities across six key battleground states” and concludes that “patterns of election irregularities ... are so consistent across the six battleground states that they suggest a coordinated strategy to, if not steal the election, strategically game the election process in such a way as to ... unfairly tilt the playing field in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket.”...

Trump has launched legal battles across the country since the November election, which has been called for President-elect Joe Biden by all major news networks and certified by the Electoral College, and as recently as this week stated that it’s “too soon to give up.”

Dozens of legal challenges across the country, however, have been lost, and the Supreme Court has declined to hear cases from both Texas and Pennsylvania challenging the election, which Trump’s supporters have decried as a politically motivated ducking.

Several Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have broken with the president and conceded that Biden is the winner of the election. McConnell congratulated Biden on Wednesday, declaring that “the Electoral College has spoken.”

Additionally, Biden slammed claims of voter fraud this week, saying, "Thankfully, a unanimous Supreme Court immediately and completely rejected" efforts to overturn the election.

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...Concluding Observations

From the findings of this report, it is possible to infer what may well have been a coordinated strategy to effectively stack the election deck against the Trump-Pence ticket. Indeed, the patterns of election irregularities observed in this report are so consistent across the six battleground states that they suggest a coordinated strategy to, if not steal the election, then to strategically game the election process in such a way as to unfairly tilt the playing field in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket. A major part of this “stuff the ballot box” strategy has been aptly summarized in a complaint filed before the US Supreme Court by the State of Texas: Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a justification, [Democrat] government officials [in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin] usurped their legislatures’ authority and unconstitutionally revised their state’s election statutes. They accomplished these statutory revisions through executive fiat or friendly lawsuits, thereby weakening ballot integrity.146 According to the Texas complaint – which the Supreme Court sadly refused to hear – the goal of this strategy was to flood the battleground states “with millions of ballots to be sent through the mails, or placed in drop boxes, with little or no chain of custody.”

At the same time, Democrat government officials also sought to “weaken the strongest security measures protecting the integrity of the vote signature verification and witness requirements.”147 The findings of the assessment conducted in this report are consistent with the Texas complaint. Key takeaways include:  The weight of evidence and patterns of irregularities uncovered in this report are such that it is irresponsible for anyone – especially the mainstream media – to claim that there is “no evidence” of fraud or irregularities.  The ballots that have come into question because of the identified election irregularities are more than sufficient to swing the outcome in favor of President Trump should even a relatively small portion of these ballots be ruled illegal.  While all six battleground states exhibit most, or all, six dimensions of election irregularities, each state has a unique mix of issues that might be considered “most important.” To put this another way, all battleground states are characterized by the same or similar election irregularities; but, like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, each battleground state is different in its own election irregularity way.  This was theft by a thousand cuts across six dimensions and six battleground states rather than any one single “silver bullet” election irregularity.

In refusing to investigate a growing number of legitimate grievances, the anti-Trump media

and censoring social media are complicit in shielding the American public from the truth.

This is a dangerous game that simultaneously undermines the credibility of the media and

the stability of our political system and Republic.

Those journalists, pundits, and political leaders now participating in what has become a}:

Biden Whitewash should acknowledge the six dimensions of election irregularities and

conduct the appropriate investigations to determine the truth about the 2020 election. If

this is not done before Inauguration Day, we risk putting into power an illegitimate and

illegal president lacking the support of a large segment of the American people.

 The failure to aggressively and fully investigate the six dimensions of election irregularities

assessed in this report is a signal failure not just of our anti-Trump mainstream media and

censoring social media but also of both our legislative and judicial branches.

Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia together with Republican majorities

in both chambers of the State Legislatures of five of the six battleground states –

Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin 148

– have had both the

power and the opportunity to investigate the six dimensions of election

irregularities presented in this report.

Yet, wilting under intense political pressure,

these politicians have failed in their Constitutional duties and responsibilities to do

so – and thereby failed both their states and this nation as well as their party.

Both State courts and Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have failed the

American people in refusing to appropriately adjudicate the election irregularities

that have come before them. Their failures pose a great risk to the American

Republic.

If these election irregularities are not fully investigated prior to Inauguration Day and}:

thereby effectively allowed to stand, this nation runs the very real risk of never being able

to have a fair presidential election again – with the down-ballot Senate races scheduled for

January 5 in Georgia an initial test case of this looming risk.

ENDNOTES

1 All witnesses who have signed sworn affidavits or declarations who are referenced in this report but whose names

are not referenced in the public record, e.g., a court case, are referred to as “Jane Doe” or “John Doe” based on gender.

This has been done to ensure their safety and security.

2 Ballotopedia, “Partisan composition of state legislatures,” December 4, 2020.

https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_state_legislatures

3 Bump, Philip. “The two states that almost always predict which candidate is headed for defeat,” The Washington

Post, 7 September 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/07/the-two-states-that-almostalways-predict-which-candidate-is-headed-for-defeat/

*The two Democrat candidate exceptions were John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Bill Clinton in 1992.

4 Williams, Pete. "Trump's election fight includes over 50 lawsuits. It's not going well.” NBC News, November 23,

2020. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-s-election-fight-includes-over-30-lawsuits-it-sn1248289

5 All witnesses who have signed sworn affidavits and declarations referenced in this report are referred to as “Jane

Doe” and “John Doe” based on gender, in order to ensure their safety and security.

6 Bannon, Steve, War Room Pandemic, https://pandemic.warroom.org/**

7 Solomon, John, Just the News, https://justthenews.com/john-solomon

8 Kassam, Raheem, National Pulse, https://americasvoice.news/the-national-pulse/

9 Newsmax, https://www.newsmax.com/

10One America News Network, https://www.oann.com/

11“Most Say Mail-In Voting Worked, But 47% Say Fraud Likely.” Rasmussen Reports, December 7, 2020.

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/most_say_mail_in_voting_work

ed_but_47_say_fraud_likely

12 Legal Information Institute, “Bribery,” Cornell University, https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bribery

13 Bedard, Paul, “Pro-Biden effort offered Native Americans $25-$500 Visa gift cards and jewelry to vote,”

Washington Examiner,December 14, 2020. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/pro-bideneffort-offered-native-americans-25-500-visa-gift-cards-jewelry-to-vote

14 Pentochoukov, Ivan, “Illegal Money-for-Votes Raffles Conducted in Several States in 2020 Election,” Epoch Times,

December 2, 2020. https://www.theepochtimes.com/illegal-money-for-votes-raffles-conducted-in-several-states-in2020-election_3598915.html

15 Morgan, Jessy. Testimony. “A truck driver with USPS says he was suspicious of his cargo load of 288,000

completed ballots.” December 1, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xaA4dYsbQ

16 Declaration of John Doe, Delaware County Pennsylvania, November 9, 2020.

17 Bedard, Paul, “20 House Republicans demand Barr investigate ‘suitcases’ of ballots in Georgia,” TheWashington

Examiner, December 4, 2020. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/20-house-gop-demand-agbarr-investigate-suitcases-of-ballots-in-georgia

18 “Trump Campaign lawyers present video 'evidence' of ballot fraud,” Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, December 4,

2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ0xDWhWUxk

Real American Politics,December 4, 2020. https://twitter.com/RealAPolitics/status/1334754269052997635?s=20

19See, for example: Weber, Peter, “Georgia's top election investigator debunks a vote fraud conspiracy involving

'suitcases' of ballots, a urinal,” December 7, 2020. https://news.yahoo.com/georgias-top-election-investigatordebunks-115236191.html

20 In the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Tyler Bowyer et al v.. Doug Ducey, December 2,

2020. https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/12/Bower-Complaint-AZ.pdf

21 Affidavit of Jane Doe, Cobb County, Georgia, November 12, 2020.

22 Declaration of Jane Doe,Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Nov 7, 2020 [more pp]

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https://lawandcrime.com/jan-6-committee/jan-6-committee-says-donald-trumps-will-be-wild-tweet-followed-craziest-meeting-of-his-presidency-and-electrified-extremists/}:

Jan. 6 Committee Says Donald Trump’s ‘Will Be Wild’ Tweet Followed ‘Craziest Meeting’ of His Presidency and ‘Electrified’ Extremists

ADAM KLASFELD

Jul 12th, 2022,

Jan. 6 Committee — "will be wild" tweets

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 12: Messages on Twitter appear on a video screen above members of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol during the seventh hearing on the January 6th investigation in the Cannon House Office Building on July 12, 2022 in Washington, DC.

In the early morning hours of Dec. 19, former President Donald Trump fired off a tweet of a only dozen words, but congressional investigators say the extremists who overran the U.S. Capitol weeks later viewed it immediately as a “call to arms.”

As anticipated, the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol focused its hearing on Trump’s ties to the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and QAnon conspiracy theorists. In that tweet on Dec. 19, Trump exhorted his followers to gather in Washington, D.C. on the day that a joint session of Congress had planned to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the election.

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Trump wrote. “Be there, will be wild!”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a committee member who served as the lead prosecutor at Trump’s second impeachment, said that the “will be wild” tweet followed what he called the “craziest meeting of the Trump presidency.” Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his would-be special counsel Sidney Powell, and staunch loyalist Gen. Michael Flynn presented him with a plan to seize the voting machines.

In depositions, participants in that meeting described as “unhinged” and involved shouting and expletive-laden exchanges.[flynn offered to fistfight wall hanging lawyer?]

During that meeting, Trump also indicated that he wanted to appoint Powell, a conspiracy theorist behind a string of failed “Kraken” lawsuits, as special counsel and empower her to criminally prosecute people in relation to the 2020 presidential election.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who reportedly testified behind closed doors for more than eight hours on Friday, said in a videotaped deposition that he “vehemently opposed” the idea. He recounted seeing former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne there and didn’t recognize him. (Byrne resigned from the company in 2019, following revelations of his affair with Russian agent Maria Butina.) The idea was rejected after midnight, and Giuliani recounted branding opponents of the plan as “pussies.”

Trump fired off his tweet at 1:42 a.m. Eastern Time.

The post “electrified and galvanized his supporters, especially dangerous extremists like the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and other racist and white nationalist groups spoiling for a fight against the government,” Raskin noted.

The Justice Department’s prosecution of the Oath Keepers showed how the group’s Florida chapter leader viewed the post.

“He wants us to make it WILD that’s what he’s saying,” Kelly Meggs allegedly wrote in a Facebook post some three days after that tweet, according to an indictment released a little more than a month after the attack.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) said flatly: “This tweet served as a call to action, and in some cases as a call to arms, for many of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.”

The committee also highlighted ties between militia members and Trump ally Roger Stone, who used Oath Keepers members as bodyguards before Jan. 6.

Prosecutors have not charged Stone with any crimes related to the attack on the Capitol, but multiple Oath Keepers who guarded him — Robert Minuta and Joshua James — are being prosecuted in the seditious conspiracy indictment. James became the first Oath Keepers member in that case to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation. Brian Ulrich, from the extremist group’s Georgia chapter, followed. The federal judges presiding over the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases “reluctantly” agreed to delay both trials until later in the year, after prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that the committee’s investigation required an adjournment.

At least three Oath Keepers members charged with seditious conspiracy have pleaded guilty to date, one of whom told prosecutors that he heard the group’s leader Stewart Rhodes try to reach Trump through an intermediary on the day of the attack. William Todd Wilson, now cooperating fully with the government, said in a statement of offense that he overheard the conversation with the intermediary during a meeting with fellow Oath Keepers members inside a private suite of D.C.’s Phoenix Hotel around 5 p.m. Eastern Time.

“Wilson heard Rhodes repeatedly implore the individual to tell President Trump to call upon groups like the Oath Keepers to forcibly oppose the transfer of power,”prosecutor summarized in a statement signed by Wilson. “This individual denied Rhodes’s request to speak directly with President Trump. After the call ended, Rhodes stated to the group, ‘I just want to fight.'”

Shortly before the hearing, a now-incarcerated Rhodes offered through his attorney to testify before the committee — under certain conditions. Rhodes demanded to testify inside the U.S. Capitol, rather than from jail. He also wanted to be accompanied by his lawyer and speak to Congress live. The committee’s aides declined to comment on whether they have discussed the offer with Rhodes’s counsel.

The committee’s live witnesses typically speak to the lawmakers first behind closed doors.

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Justice Department’s prosecution of the Oath Keepers showed how the group’s Florida chapter leader viewed the post.

“He wants us to make it WILD that’s what he’s saying,” Kelly Meggs allegedly wrote in a Facebook post some three days after that tweet, according to an indictment released a little more than a month after the attack.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) said flatly: “This tweet served as a call to action, and in some cases as a call to arms, for many of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.”

The committee also highlighted ties between militia members and Trump ally Roger Stone, who used Oath Keepers members as bodyguards before Jan. 6.

Prosecutors have not charged Stone with any crimes related to the attack on the Capitol, but multiple Oath Keepers who guarded him — Robert Minuta and Joshua James — are being prosecuted in the seditious conspiracy indictment. James became the first Oath Keepers member in that case to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation. Brian Ulrich, from the extremist group’s Georgia chapter, followed. The federal judges presiding over the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases “reluctantly” agreed to delay both trials until later in the year, after prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that the committee’s investigation required an adjournment.

At least three Oath Keepers members charged with seditious conspiracy have pleaded guilty to date, one of whom told prosecutors that he heard the group’s leader Stewart Rhodestry to reach Trump through an intermediary on the day of the attack. William Todd Wilson, now cooperating fully with the government, said in a statement of offense that he overheard the conversation with the intermediary during a meeting with fellow Oath Keepers members inside a private suite of D.C.’s Phoenix Hotel around 5 p.m. Eastern Time....

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