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Days after Joe Biden was declared the victor of the 2020 presidential election, Stewart Rhodes and fellow members of his far-right militia group talked like they were going to war.
“We’re not getting out of this without a fight. There’s going to be a fight,” the founder of the Oath Keepers said in a recording of the Nov. 9 meeting revealed in federal court on Tuesday. “But let’s just do it smart and let’s do it while President Trump is still commander in chief.”
Later in the meeting, Rhodes warned the group—which prosecutors say was composed of Stop the Steal diehards determined to keep Trump in the White House no matter what—to have “discipline” when discussing their plan and thoughts about the election.