{"id":1582654,"date":"2022-08-01T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582654"},"modified":"2022-08-01T11:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:50:25","slug":"justice-department-says-oath-keepers-cant-blame-trump-for-capitol-breach-on-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-says-oath-keepers-cant-blame-trump-for-capitol-breach-on-jan-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Says Oath Keepers Can\u2019t Blame Trump for Capitol Breach on Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-department-says-oath-keepers-cant-blame-trump-for-capitol-breach-on-jan-6%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582654&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Justice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doj\">DOJ<\/a>) argued that the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-oath-keepers\">Oath Keepers<\/a> group who allegedly entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6 can\u2019t blame former President Donald Trump for criminal acts during the breach, according to a recent filing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump did not have the authority to permit or authorize a conspiracy to forcibly oppose the authority of the government or the execution of the laws of the United States, nor could he have lawfully sanctioned the attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 or any of the other criminal conduct allegedly perpetrated by defendants,\u201d federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/62601653\/213\/united-states-v-rhodes-iii\/\">government prosecutors wrote<\/a> in their filing submitted July 29 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ is seeking a ruling to prevent attorneys for\u00a0Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other members of the group from being able to make that argument in opening statements to the jury or while questioning witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny \u2018public-authority\u2019 defense put forth by the defendants would fail for two reasons: no government agent possessed actual authority to order the defendants\u2019 criminal actions, and, in any event, it would have been objectively unreasonable to rely on any such order,\u201d DOJ lawyers added in the filing about the case,\u201d adding that the \u201cdefendants cannot satisfy any part of the entrapment-by-estoppel test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendants were not actively misled. Neither in his speech on January 6, 2021, nor beforehand did President Trump or any other government actor purport to interpret the scope of the statutes the defendants are charged with violating,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p> What\u2019s Next <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/62601653\/united-states-v-rhodes-iii\/\">want<\/a> to block lawyers for Rhodes and other Oath Keepers members from claiming that Capitol Police officers and other law enforcement supported the defendants\u2019 actions on Jan. 6, 2021, because they allegedly did not try to stop them from entering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) argued that the founder of the Oath Keepers group who allegedly entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6 can\u2019t blame former President Donald Trump for criminal acts during the breach, according to a recent filing. \u201cPresident Trump did not have the authority to permit or authorize a conspiracy to forcibly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}