The MeidasTouch Podcast - Oath Keepers Leaders GUILTY of Seditious Conspiracy

A Washington D.C. Federal Jury just found Oath Keepers Leaders Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs GUILTY of Seditious Conspiracy. All five Oath Keepers on trial were found GUILTY of Obstruction. MeidasTouch Host Ben Meiselas reports.Shop Meidas Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.comJoin us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouchRemember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts:MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101

Duration: 18m
Broadcast on: 30 Nov 2022
Audio Format: other

I'm Ben Mycellus from the Midas Touch Network, and this is a breaking news alert from Federal Court in Washington, D.C. The leader of the Oath Keepers, Stuart Rhodes, has been found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy as well as for a count of obstruction, both carrying with it a 20-year prison sentence. This seditious conspiracy charge against Stuart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers is the most serious charge that has been filed by the Department of Justice against any of the January 6th insurrectionists. This is the first seditious conspiracy trial to go to jury verdict, in addition to Stuart Rhodes being found guilty of seditious conspiracy, Kelly Megs, the Oath Keeper leader, who was also involved in the same trial and involved in the insurrection on January 6th, was also found guilty of seditious conspiracy as well. Now this seditious conspiracy charge has been rarely actually applied by the Department of Justice. This civil war-era criminal statute involves individuals trying to overthrow the United States government. Let me just read for you the statute 18 U.S.C. section 2384, which says the following, "If two or more persons in any state or territory or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States conspire to overthrow, put down or to destroy by force the government of the United States or to levy war against them or to oppose by force the authority thereof or by force to prevent hinder or delay the execution of any law of the United States or by force to seize take or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof. They shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years or both. That is the seditious conspiracy statute for which Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Megs have just been convicted of by a jury of their peers in Washington, D.C. with a prison sentence of 20 years, which will be decided at the sentencing, how many years they will face. They've also been found guilty of an obstruction of the January 6th proceedings as well, which also carries with it a 20 year prison sentence for obstruction of justice relating to the January 6th insurrection. Some of the other insurrectionists who were also found guilty of obstruction, all five of the oath keepers who were on trial were found guilty on the felony obstruction count that includes Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Megs, Jessica Watkins and Oathkeeper Kenneth Harrelson and Thomas Caldwell, each of them found guilty of obstruction of justice and that carrying with it a 20 year sentence as well up to a 20 year maximum sentence for each obstruction count. And again, that will be decided at sentencing by the presiding federal judge over the case judge Amit Mehta. Additionally, though, on the seditious conspiracy counts, Harrelson, Watkins and Caldwell, however, were found not guilty. That was the first acquittal of any of the charges brought in a jury trial by the Department of Justice on the conspiracy to obstruct count, which is another count Stewart Rhodes was found not guilty there, but Megs and Watkins were found guilty, but Harrelson and Caldwell were found not guilty. And then on the obstruction felony count, everybody was found guilty. So to kind of give you a summary, everybody was found guilty of obstruction, which carries with it a 20 year sentence with respect to the seditious conspiracy count, only only Rhodes and Megs were found guilty on the conspiracy to obstruct count. Only Megs and Watkins were found guilty, but all are in basically the same boat here despite some being acquitted on different counts, a very nuanced decision by the jury who had to really parse through what was specifically going on by the different oath keepers on

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