“It seemed to me a lot of us were prepared — I was prepared — to stop the certification process one way or the other,” Oath Keepers member Jason Dolan said.
WASHINGTON — Oath Keepers extremists were prepared to use “any means necessary” on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s electoral victory, a member of the group testified Tuesday. the founder of the far-right militia group, and four associates facing seditious conspiracy and other charges. is the first Oath Keepers member to take the stand as part of a cooperation deal with prosecutors as he seeks a lighter sentence in his own criminal case.
Dolan is the first of several Oath Keepers with cooperation deals with the government who are expected to testify in the seditious conspiracy case against Rhodes and his associates. Dolan said he believed that if Trump had invoked the Insurrection Act, which gives the president wide discretion to decide when military force is necessary, there would have been “factions of the federal government fighting against other factions of the federal government.” But Dolan told jurors that the Oath Keepers were prepared to act no matter what Trump did.Dolan, a 46-year-old former Marine from Wellington, Florida, and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding.
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