Young: Today I feel extremely ashamed and embarrassed. Prosecutor: And so how do you feel about the fact that you were pushing towards a line of police officers? ![]() In his testimony that day, Young explained to the jury how he and other Oath Keepers were provoked to travel to Washington by President Donald Trump's tweets and by Trump's false claims that the 2020 Presidential election was "stolen" from him.² And, in emotional testimony, Young acknowledged what he and others believed they were doing on January 6th: attacking Congress in the manner the French had attacked the Bastille at the outset of the French Revolution.³ Reflecting on that day more than a year and half later, Young testified: The defendants had been charged with seditious conspiracy against the United States and other crimes related to the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress.¹ On October 31, 2022, in a Federal courthouse in Washington, DC, Graydon Young testified against Stewart Rhodes and other members of the Oath Keepers militia group.
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