Oath Keepers Lawyer Gives Spectacular Sh*tshow Interview On CNN

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Yesterday the Justice Department indicted eleven members of the far right Oath Keepers militia for participating in a seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021. Their lawyer Jonathon Moseley is currently tweeting that “I plan on drinking champagne on Oath Keepers Kelly Meggs’ new yacht, purchased from his malicious prosecution lawsuit against a dishonest prosecution over January 6.”

Which is not even the worst error in judgment from the Northern Virginia attorney today. Because Moseley started his morning getting spanked by CNN’s Brianna Keilar in this extremely ill-advised interview.

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The DOJ charged the Oath Keepers leader, Stewart Rhodes, with 'seditious conspiracy' related to Jan. 6 riot.

The group's planning "was about their fanciful idea that … Trump was going to activate them as a militia under the insurrection act," says his attorney Jon Moseley. pic.twitter.com/vF975RlfgI

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Keilar asked how Moseley plans to defend his clients against conspiracy charges when the government has copious evidence that they planned a violent attack, including a stockpile of weapons in hotel rooms in Arlington and Signal messages anticipating a “bloody fight.”

“Tell me how you defend against this,” the host asked.

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“I want to see the entire documents,” Moseley insisted, suggesting that there was some missing context that would show that his clients’ references to “unconventional warfare” and a “bloody, massively bloody revolution” were simply innocuous chatter.

“It was about their somewhat fanciful idea that the president was going to call them up under the Insurrection Act, which I don’t pretend to understand,” Moseley explained, claiming that his clients were simply stockpiling guns in anticipation of lawfully overthrowing the federal government at the behest of a defeated president. “They were quite fixated on the idea that Trump was going to activate them as a militia under the Insurrection Act.”

Moseley failed to mention that Stewart Rhodes, King of the Oafs, messaged the “Hangout Chat” on Christmas 2020 that “We need to make those senators very uncomfortable with all of us being a few hundred feet away,” adding “I think Congress will screw him [Trump] over. The only chance we/he has is if we scare the shit out of them and convince them it will be torches and pitchforks time is [sic] they don’t do the right thing.”

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Or the messages to the “Leadership Channel” during the riot that said “Pence is doing nothing. As I predicted. .. All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no intent by him to do anything. So patriots are taking it into their own hands. They’ve had enough.”

Perhaps there is context missing, like a follow up that says, “Dangit, fellas, looks like we aren’t going to get that Insurrection Act order after all. Best we pack up these guns and head on home to watch “Love Actually.'”

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Moseley’s line, and he’s stickin’ to it, is that his clients “went to the Capitol to provide security at a demonstration that turned into chaos,” despite the fact that they marched into the chaos in “stack formation,” participated in breaking down the doors and assaulting police officers, summoned more militia members to the Capitol mid-riot, and messaged each other during the event “this is what we fucking trained for.”

“I’m not saying I would advise them to do any of the things they did,” Moseley concedes, before insisting that “their purpose in coming to DC was to provide security for legal, permitted demonstrations.”

According to Moseley, his clients weren’t doing a gun training in preparation to take over the government, and it is very unfair for prosecutors to connect those two events.

“The indictment says practically that they ate a hamburger on the way up here in order to overthrow the government. No, they ate a hamburger because, you know, I’m speaking hypothetically,” he said, as Keilar took a big sip of coffee and tried not to giggle. “They keep saying that everything they did was to overthrow the government and the prosecution knows that’s false.”

He went on to call the indictment “a work of fiction,” insisting that his clients’ plans for “revolution” were not a conspiracy but were in fact “reactive” to “what they believe the left and the Deep State and other people were doing.” Pressed on what exactly this oppression entailed, Moseley invoked “everything from news censorship of certain items, you know the Hunter thing, and everything where they felt the election was being manipulated and stolen.”

But perhaps we should cut the attorney some slack. Moseley’s website describes him as “Offering 22 years experience in Virginia general practice at a price you can afford,” and lists practice areas including DWI, suspended license, and reckless driving. This is probably Moseley’s first case of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government. But, as his page notes, “Legal problems rarely get better while ignoring them. One should see a lawyer promptly to explore legal rights.”

He’ll get his sedition legs under him in no time. He’s already off to a bang up start with US District Judge Amit Mehta, who was really impressed with Moseley’s argument that DC jails asking detainees to get vaccinated was literally just like the Holocaust. Here’s the minute order on that motion:

Whatever motion Defendants intend to file, the court will stop reading it after page 45. See LCrR 47(e). The court will not allow this case to become a forum for bombastic arguments (“SCOTUS Could Not Have Foreseen the Holocaust,” see ECF No. 476-2, at 1) or propagating fringe views about COVID-19 or vaccinations (“A Human Experiment Unlike Any Other,” “Pseudo-Science Displaces Science,” “Mandatory Everything,” “C19 Conspiracy Structure,” see ECF No. 476-2, at 2). To this court’s knowledge, the D.C. Department of Corrections does not require any person held there to accept a COVID-19 vaccine. If that is the intended basis of Defendants’ motion, they must file a brief of no more than five pages (excluding exhibits) establishing such a mandatory policy before the court will accept a longer filing. Signed by Judge Amit P. Mehta on 11/01/2021.

Champagne on the yacht, you bet.

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

Topics

Capitol riot, Crime, Government, Jonathon Moseley, Kelly Meggs, Oath Keepers


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