Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes told jurors at his conspiracy trial that other members of the far-right group who stormed the US Capitol were 'off-mission' and insisted he was not engaged in any operation to forcefully oppose the government on Jan. 6.
Monday that other members of the far-right group who stormed the U.S. Capitol were"off-mission" and insisted he was not engaged in any operation to forcefully oppose the federal government on Jan. 6.
"The goal was to make sure that no one got wrapped up in that Charlie Foxtrot," he said, using a military expression for"cluster f---." "His greatest weakness is anyone confronting him with anything, contradicting him, and him not being able to immediately shut it down," she added.Rhodes stumbled over parts of his testimony, even made a few self-deprecating remarks about his weight and made light of his sexual relationship withthe general counsel to the Oath Keepers, whom he blamed for sending a message telling members of the organization to delete their communications.
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