From the Talking Points Memo article:
Attorneys for Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who’s been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, said in a recent court filing that Stewart and his Oath Keeper buddies were waiting for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act that day.
- Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers were only at the Capitol to “defend that declaration” if Trump were to invoke it, the lawyers said.
- When Trump didn’t do that, Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers gave up and went to Olive Garden, according to the lawyers. The Olive Garden thing came up like four times in that filing, actually.
- The lawyers also argued that Stewart’s co-conspirator, Edward Vallejo, was too fat, old and unhealthy to pose a real threat as an alleged “quick reaction force” (QRF) in the plot described by prosecutors.
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Oh the irony — while an actual insurrection was being attempted at the Capitol Building, TFG’s goons were waiting for him to use fake reasons to invoke the Insurrection Act, so they could ride into D.C. and well, insurrect some more.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law that empowers the President of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.
Wikipedia
Freedumb!
It seems worth noting that Oath Keeper Rhodes’ own lawyers are releasing this, apparently flipping on TFG and further implicating him in the coup plot.
Lock him up.