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Oath Keepers' Stewart Rhodes denies he organized the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol

He testified that the attack was "nowhere in the mission scope at all" of his group, He and four other members are charged with seditious conspiracy.
Updated November 7, 2022 at 11:30 AM ET

Stewart Rhodes has testified in his own defense in his federal trial that he was not part of planning the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol and that members of the far-right Oath Keepers group who busted into the building made a "stupid" decision.

Rhodes and four other

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