head of GOP paramilitary group at J6, writing a text to trump (not delivered).
Shows the risk of J6.
WASHINGTON — Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes wrote a message intended for former President Donald Trump in the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, calling upon Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to stay in power and arrest members of Congress.
“If you don’t then Biden/Kamala will turn all that power on you, your family, and all of us. You and your family will be imprisoned and killed,” Rhodes wrote in a message presented in court Wednesday. “You and your children will die in prison.”
“You must do as Lincoln did," Rhodes wrote in the message. "He arrested congressmen, state legislators, and issued a warrant for SCOTUS Chief Justice Taney. Take command like Washington would. ... Go down in history as the savior of the Republic, not a man who surrendered it."
“I am here for you and so are all my men. We will come help you if you need us. Military and police. And so will your millions of supporters," Rhodes wrote.