Chapter 6.3 - The Oath Keepers: "He Called Us All to the Capitol and Wants Us to Make it Wild!!!" (The January 6th Report)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 23 March 2023
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Summary
This section describes another organization involved in the January 6 events: The Oath Keepers. The group called for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act throughout December 2020, arguing that the President needed to do so to "Stop the Steal." In a message to the Oath Keepers, group founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes wrote: "We need to push Tump [sic] to do his duty. If he doesn't, we will do ours." Rhodes believed that the President could empower militias like the Oath Keepers to enforce law and order after other Americans refused to accept President Trump's rule.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a reading of the December 22nd, 2022 final report from the select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United |
| 0:16.2 | States Capitol. |
| 0:18.6 | Chapter 6. |
| 0:19.6 | Be there. |
| 0:21.2 | Will Be Wild. Be there, will be wild. |
| 0:32.3 | 6.3. The Oath Keepers. He called us all to the capital and wants us to make it wild. The Oath Keepers, founded in 2009 by Elmer Stewart Rhodes, is a far-right anti-government organization. |
| 0:42.0 | The group targets former and current military anti-government organization. |
| 0:42.7 | The group targets former and current military and law enforcement for recruitment. |
| 0:48.0 | Their name refers to the oath taken by public servants to support and defend the U.S. Constitution. |
| 0:54.8 | The oathkeepers claimed fealty to the U.S. Constitution is belied by their obsession with |
| 1:00.0 | conspiracy theories about alleged evil-intentioned elites in the government. |
| 1:04.9 | Rhodes has often spouted these conspiracy theories on Infow Wars. |
| 1:09.4 | Over the summer of 2020, the Oath-Kepers organized armed groups, ostensibly to serve as volunteer |
| 1:16.1 | self-appointed security at protests around the country. |
| 1:20.4 | The Oath Keepers use the protests to draw in new recruits. |
| 1:24.0 | They also built muscle memory by coordinating for these events. |
| 1:28.0 | For example, the oathkeepers hired Michael Green, |
| 1:31.0 | who later coordinated oathkeepers activities on January 5th and 6th, to lead |
| 1:36.4 | security operations in multiple cities around the country. |
| 1:40.7 | In the early part of 2020, protests against COVID-related lockdowns served as additional growth and networking opportunities. |
| 1:49.0 | Kelly Sorrell, a lawyer for the oathkeepers, met the oathkeepers at a lockdown protest in Austin, Texas in early 2020. |
| 1:57.0 | Sorrell saw these COVID events as a coalescing moment for different far-right groups. |
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