Oath Keeper: I Felt Like We Were Storming The Bastille

October 31, 2022 Extremists, Trump cultists

“I felt it was like a Bastille-type moment in history,” Graydon Young told jurors in the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four other members of the organization. “I thought that I participated in something that was potentially a historically significant event.”

Young, who previously pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and obstruction of Congress and agreed to cooperate with the government, said during the trial’s fifth week of testimony that there was “pandemonium” inside the Capitol when he entered on Jan. 6. “It was crazy,” Young said.

Young, 57, described how he felt “desperation and hopelessness” in the wake of the 2020 presidential election after former President Donald Trump lost. He said he “listened to what Trump’s attorneys were saying” about the election and got sucked into conspiracy theories online.

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A member of the Oath Keepers convicted in connection with Jan. 6 said in courtroom testimony against other members of the far-right group that he wanted to be a part of the attack because he thought it was similar to the 1789 storming of the Bastille. https://t.co/wD4eyyy0g7

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 31, 2022