MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A member of the American far-right militia ‘Oath Keepers’ who participated in the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 has confessed that his militia was “willing to fight” to keep Donald Trump as president of the United States. .
Jason Dolan, 46, a former military officer and former member of the far-right group, has assured during a trial before the House select committee investigating the assault that many of the ‘Oath Keepers’ affiliates had prepared to stop the election certification process “in one way or another”, using violence if necessary, according to the Bloomberg agency.
“I thought there would be factions of the federal government that would side with President Trump and factions that would side with President Biden,” Dolan said, alleging a possible battle that he said could have broken out in Washington that day between parties loyal to Trump and other Biden loyalists.
During the day of the assault on the capitol, the militia would not only have tried to confront the security forces, but they had also stored weapons in hotels in Washington D.C to use them if the then president of the United States had invoked the Insurrection Act and had called groups like ‘Oath Keepers’, NBC has reported.
After confessing that he had even been willing to give his life to prevent Biden from taking power as president of the United States, Dolan has maintained that for months he spent the nights of 2020 in a garage drinking alcohol as a means of relieving the pain of a bad operation. Hip.
Then, he would have consumed information that pointed out that Joe Biden’s electoral victory was a fraud, which is why he later joined ‘Oath Keepers’ and went to Washington D.C from Florida to avoid certification of the election results.
In this way, the former Marine has become the first member of the far-right organization to give direct evidence that ‘Oath Keepers’ had tried to interrupt the procedure that would certify Biden’s victory through violence.
In addition to Dolan, four members of the ‘Oath Keepers’ are on trial on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of official proceedings, even though they testified under a cooperation agreement with the US government.
This trial is part of a historic trial against the leader of the far-right ‘Oath Keepers’ militia, Stewart Rhodes, during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
This is the first trial in more than a decade against an American extremist group for crimes of this type. In this case, the leadership of ‘Oath Keepers’ is accused of trying to stop by force the confirmation by Congress of the victory of the president, Joe Biden, in the 2019 presidential elections.