The Justice Department charged six more people Friday it says are members of a right-wing militia group that plotted in advance of Jan. 6 to attack the U.S. Capitol.
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The indictment offers the most sweeping evidence so far that members of the far-right extremist group known as the Oath Keepers had spent months allegedly planning to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory in a bid to keep former President Donald Trump in power.
The federal charges say 52-year-old Kelly Meggs, the self-described leader of the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers, and his wife Connie, joined four other alleged militia members to breach the Capitol.
According to the indictment, the group ascended a flight of stairs outside the Capitol in military-style formation and then went on to breach the building. Federal prosecutors say Meggs parroted language from a tweet from Trump weeks before the siege. Trump had encouraged his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, saying it would be “wild.”
“He wants us to make it WILD that’s what he’s saying,” Meggs allegedly wrote in a Facebook post. “He called us all to the Capitol and wants us to make it wild!! Sir Yes Sir!!! Gentleman we are heading to DC.”
Last month, the Justice Department charged three members of the Oath Keepers with conspiring to undermine President Biden’s win. Officials said that Thomas Edward Caldwell, Jessica Marie Watkins, and Donovan Ray Crowl had allegedly set up training for urban warfare and riot control in preparation for the Jan. 6 siege shortly after then-President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory and had allegedly briefly discussed bringing weapons into Washington, D.C., by boat.
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The latest indictment adds six more people to the alleged conspiracy, including a retired Ohio couple, Sandra and Bennie Parker, and another suspected Florida Oath Keeper, Graydon Young, who allegedly arranged to get members of the group trained in firearms and combat.
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I’m waiting for The Justice Department to arrest the Oath Breakers, who promised to unite America, then closed pipelines, threw wealth producing American pipeline workers out of jobs, to reunite America only in more oil dependency to countries that have sworn to destroy us, opening the borders to COVID unvetted illegal aliens to come it and infest and COVID infect the Red border states for diminishment, and targeting them for future voting conquest. These are the things that incited calm normal law-abiding citizens to rage at the Capitol which is full of foreign bought and paid for politicians, who sell us out to the highest foreign bidders. Trump was just the messenger. It was the acts of Capitol traitors and their deranged acts of fake impeachments that in targeting our elected leader really seek to target and destroy lawful Americans, that did the incitement and caused the excitement. Funny how people who pay to build Government buildings and houses cannot enter and peaceably protest, which only turned violent when an unarmed woman protester was shot and killed like so much expendable flesh, by the protectors of the elected political criminals, who break or ignore the Constitution and laws in manners that cause this country way more death, division and damage than anything that occurred January 6th. Let the blame fall with the real instigators, those who govern like dictators a people designed to live and breathe free, and follow their oaths of office to the letter.
SO they were “Conspiring to bring JUSTICE to congress”, and that’s arrestable. BUT JUDGES AND DA’s who swear oaths To UPHOLD OUR LAWS, who refuse to do so, na.. that’s not a crime?
GO FIGURE.
We have immigration laws on the books that Congress passed. How do they get away with NOT ENFORCING these laws which they ARE REQUIRED to enforce.
LIKE with everything else.. LACK OF anyone with the balls, to HOLD THEM accountable!
Where was the Department of No Justice in prosecuting Obama and Biden, for trying to take down Trump, using the Fake News Russia collusion bull?
OR for going after ALL THOSE insurrectionists, who STAGED that attempted coup? OR for going after those seditionist ANTIFA/BLM rioters, who literally TOOK OVER PARTS OF several american cities, and KICKED OUT ALL THE PROPER Law enforcement members?
Trump had encouraged his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, saying it would be “wild.”
wild
adj.-something or someone that’s really awesome!
But as we have seen over and over, the dishonorable, dishonest Democrats will fabricate their own definition of
Words, Facts, Truth, Reality and even History to fit their destructive agendas and use their fabrications against us.
I pray to GOD that we as a country wake up before the “Socialist Democrat Party State” turn us all into their servants and live stock. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Dead stock maybe. So someone gave the scruff a low score…….why? Scruff is right on
everything in america is *** backwards patriots who want the country to remain free are now the enemy of the state
and people who want to destroy america are media darlings.
the media and public schools are the front lines of the war for americas soul.
IMO that’s a war, they are WINNING hands down.
We have a Justice Dept ? That’s news to me. Haven’t heard word one from them when Hillary, Obama, Comey, Lynch, et al were outright committing crimes for all to see.
Nor were they concerned when antifa and black lies matter were torching America to the ground.
Apparently equal justice for all means nothing in this country.
Which is why i cal them the INJUSTICE dept.