Oath Keeper Testifies He Was Ready To Die For Trump

The Associated Press reports:

A member of the far-right Oath Keepers who stormed the U.S. Capitol testified that he was ready to fight to keep former President Donald Trump in office and was preparing himself in the weeks before Jan. 6 to say goodbye to his family, he testified in a seditious conspiracy trial on Tuesday.

Jason Dolan, a 46-year-old military veteran, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and a count of obstruction of an official proceeding in September and testified in the trial of five other members of the extremist group under a cooperation agreement with the government.

In December 2020 text messages displayed by the government on Tuesday, Dolan wrote that there was “no coming back” from what he was prepared to do and that he would be “lucky” if he got “a prison sentence, tagged with treason, or a bullet” as a result of his actions.

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“I wanted them to be afraid of me… If they weren’t going to, in my perspective, do the right thing, maybe they could be scared into doing the right thing.”

— Florida Man who was ready to die to keep Trump in office.https://t.co/CdudgRLGA3

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 18, 2022