Watkins and Meggs allegedly helped coordinate separate teams, weapons and equipment, while Caldwell organized a base of operations for the Oath Keepers at a hotel Arlington, Va., where the DOJ says the group stashed firearms. 9, the DOJ alleges Rhodes held a conference call with leaders to discuss stopping the presidential transfer of power.Ĭommunications and messaging between leaders - including Meggs, Watkins and Harrelson - involving the use of force to stop Biden’s certification continued through early January, the DOJ says. Rhodes is also accused of leading Oath Keepers members onto the Capitol grounds and directing followers to meet him in the restricted area. 6 revealed over the summer that Rhodes held a secret meeting with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in a parking garage the night before the Capitol riots. The House select committee investigating Jan. Members of the Oath Keepers joined other supporters of former President Trump who stormed the Capitol in a bid to stop the certification of the 2020 election, the DOJ said in charging documents earlier this year. Army paratrooper who attended Yale Law School and volunteered on Republican political campaigns before 2009, when he founded the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia group. Rhodes, 56, from Granbury, Texas, is a former U.S. Here’s what to know about the high-stakes trial, which could last several weeks.

“They concocted a plan for armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy.” “Their goal was to stop by whatever means necessary the lawful transfer of presidential power, including by taking up arms against the United States government,” the attorney said, according to The Associated Press.

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