This is Rumble with Michael Moore and I'm Michael Moore and
welcome everyone. We got some good news last
night, a jury in Washington, d.c. convicted the founder and
the leader of the Oath Keepers for His role in the January 6th
attempt to overthrow our government, and to overturn the
legitimate election of Joe Biden as president of the United
States. His name is Elmer Stewart
Rhodes. He and four others were
convicted of a variety of offenses but the most serious
one that he and the person who was the head of the Florida
chapter of The Oath Keepers. His name was Kelly Meg's were
both convicted yesterday last night.
Seditious conspiracy, which is a very, very serious crime.
There have been people charged with it, only a couple of times
in the last few decades. It's hard to get a conviction on
because you really have to prove that this group of people had
conspired to essentially overthrow the government.
The other three were, convicted of lesser charges, but not
sedition, their names were Thomas called well, Jessica
Watkins, and Kenny Harrelson, they were convicted of of aiding
and abetting trying to obstruct Congress from having it session.
It was not a guarantee that they were going to get these
convictions. They were a little worried that
they might have overreached but apparently, the jury did not see
it that way. And at least a couple of them
are going to more than likely be sentenced for 10 or 20 years in
prison for what happened on January, 6 of 20 21 and so good.
This is what the justice department should be doing.
This is how they should be protecting us.
The primary terrorists against this country are not Outsiders.
They are not foreigners, they are Americans.
They are the people down the street and many of them are
armed and they are hell-bent on trying to create some sort of
civil war or to use violence in any way that they feel fit to
overturn, things roads himself in the days and weeks, leading
up to January 6th. A various interviews wrote on
his own site. About his hope to meet force
with Force to quote him. He wanted to hang Nancy, Pelosi
from a Lamppost, putting the word out to people all over the
country to come to DC be ready for when President Trump calls
upon us. And so they brought a lot of
weapons, a lot of them, brought the weapons to the uprising on
the 6th of January. That's why they didn't go
through the metal detectors for Trump's rally.
I didn't want to have to turn their guns over over.
A lot of them left the guns, in the hotel rooms where they were
staying. The thinking was if this gets
bigger than we think it is, we've got the guns here to do
what we need to do. And it seems like from roads as
testimony. He was trying to make clear that
you see, we left the guns in the hotel room.
So you can see where we weren't really going to do anything
violent, but it felt more like a lament that they left the guns
in the hotel room because looking back on it now.
And I think the lesson to the next time somebody tries to
Overthrow the government in their minds.
They won't be so stupid as to leave the guns in their hotel or
motel room. They will use them.
And there will be Bloodshed, I hate to have to even say that
out loud, but I don't think by sticking our heads in the sand.
This problem is going to go away.
So the justice department, the FBI, the people that are
supposed to be protecting us. The people that in the past
participated, in a lot of propaganda to have us afraid of
foreigners for Owners are going to attack us, the foreigners are
going to invade, you know, the terrorists.
Now I think we finally all agree and even the FBI had admitted it
in front of Congress that the main terrorists that we have to
worry about are angry white men, who are American citizens, he
didn't quite put it that way, but that's exactly what they
mostly all are so off to jail. They will go.
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Now I'm certain most of you by now, and we only spent a few
minutes talking about this, but basically the first thought that
comes to any of our minds is so Stewart.
Rhodes was responsible for this Stewart, Rhodes came up with
this idea to have this insurrection.
Stewart Rhodes. Stood on the mall, in front of
the Washington Monument. Telling everybody to head to the
Capitol Building. Take back the government.
No. I'm not saying he didn't play
his role in it as a lieutenant as someone who was working with
Michael Flynn, Roger, Stone, Etc.
But as we all know and when we hear this about well, they
finally they put these guys on trial.
They got their convictions but wait a minute.
What about the big cheese? What about the guy who really
called for the insurrection? Weeks and weeks after his defeat
at the polls. That's all he would write or
talk about. How the election was stolen.
We had to fight to get it back, no matter what.
And then his speech that day and I'll let's on to the Capitol
Building. I'm walking with you.
No, still not arrested, still not indicted still not on trial
and still thinking that he'll never see a single day behind
bars. The Benedict Arnold here.
The real traitor. You know, these guys roads and
Meg's and the other three people in the clown car.
They're not the Benedict Arnold. They're like the other Arnold's,
you know, Larry and Moe and curly Arnold.
The Benedict Arnold in this case is Donald Trump.
And his top advisors. His clothes, people, General,
Michael Flynn, convicted felon. Pardoned by Trump, Roger Stone.
Longtime adviser for many many Republicans over the years.
And of trump, Convicted. And then pardoned, by Trump This
is The Gang. This is the real game.
So where's where's the arrests? Where's the trials for?
What happened on January 6? For the leaders.
Of this revolt. Not yet.
And I think they're throwing us a bone look.
We were going to put away the head of the Oath Keepers and Oh
and next up in a couple months, we're going to put the proud
Boys on trial. Yeah.
Listen I got a lot of work to do.
I'm sure a lot of you do too, we don't have time for this
bullshit. I'm not saying, you know, don't
put people on trial committed these crimes but the people
behind the crimes, the real people not the henchmen that
worked for Al Capone, Al Capone himself.
What's going on here? And to say that these other
three Watkins and Harrelson and Caldwell that were convicted of
the Lesser charges that the what the lesser, the Lesser charges
of obstructing Congress from doing its business, the Lesser
charges of aiding and abetting obstructing an official
proceeding aiding and abetting Well, just a few hours after
this, when the uprising was put down and they returned to
Congress practically in the middle of the night to finally,
certify the election. There were a hundred 47
Republicans in the Senate, and the house that stood there and
voted to obstruct the election. They literally put their name
down in a roll call. Saying that they would not
certify the legitimate election of Joseph Biden as president of
the United States. There is a record of this right
there in Congress. 147, Republicans committed, an act of
treason Now I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if it's legal
treason but what do you call it aiding and abetting is what I
call it a Teague and abetting Trump in trying to stop Biden
from being officially named. The president of the United
States, that was their goal that day.
It was the goal of the violent mob that was encouraged and
cheered on and led by Trump. They all probably thought he was
actually walking along with them.
That was what was going on. There was an act to overthrow
the government, there was an act here a violent act to overturn,
the election to stop Congress from voting and that's exactly
what they did. They came charging in there.
Congress had to run. They had a noose, they wanted to
hang Mike Pence with because he wouldn't stop it.
And the 435 actually 535 members of the Senate and the house.
Had to run for their lives. Go into hiding leave Capitol
Hill. Or some couldn't get out of the
chamber's. Had to hide up in the balcony,
on the floor. Thinking this was the end of
their life making their final calls to their loved ones at
home. Aiding and abetting disrupting a
session of Congress. Obstructing an official
proceeding of the federal government a jury just convicted
five people of that. Why do the 147 Republicans who
five hours later tried to do the same thing?
Try to do it through the legal means because they get a vote
because they are elected by the people of the United States.
Voted to stop Biden from being the president.
And what did that? What if they had succeeded?
What would you call that? They're trying to overthrow the
government of the United States. They were trying to overturn an
election and stop the duly elected president of the United
States from stepping foot into the Oval Office.
And we just saw yesterday, five people.
Five people convicted, two of them of seditious conspiracy
conspiracy to commit sedition. when the real sedition was
organized promoted and Lead, By the commander-in-chief by the
president of the United States. And his top minions.
Not Stewart, Rhodes Stewart, Rhodes.
Yeah, course, he did what he did and Meg's and the others.
They all did it. There's so much audio and visual
footage of them doing what they did in the weeks, leading up to
January 6. On January 6, in the Willard
Hotel, in the meetings, in the days, leading up to it.
If this ends here with this conviction, then there's been no
justice. And I just read where of those
hundred and forty seven, Republicans. 119 of them are
back in this new session coming up in Congress, 119 election
deniers 119, who voted on the night of January, 6th to give
the insurgents what they wanted in overthrow of our 2020
election. And they're still there.
And there's not really going to be real Justice until they have
been dealt with. For what they did to our
country. We need aggressive prosecution.
We need to toss them out in the next election.
A few of them didn't make it. But the vast majority of them
did. They were hoping for the Red
Wave. They were hoping to ride that
wave so they could continue all the other actions of white
privilege, white supremacy. All the other racism and bigotry
and hatred. And misogyny the things that
they so strongly believe in. They were hoping that Congress
was going to be packed wall-to-wall with Republicans at
the election three weeks ago. And that didn't happen things to
you, you and millions of others. Because we weren't going to have
any of that. These are people tried to
violently overthrow the country or supported the violence or
turn their heads the other way. During a time of white
supremacy, rearing its ugly head and not just in Congress right
down to your local school board meeting packed with parents,
wanting to make sure their children are not taught about
slavery about the genocide of our Native Americans.
No, no. We can tell all that from school
board meetings to Capitol Hill, White people are in their own
uprising. And not a week goes by where we
don't have to deal with it on some level.
Whether it's because of violence that takes place or whether it's
Donald Trump inviting a white nationalist to Holocaust denier
to dinner. At Mar-A-Lago.
Oh, I didn't invite him. I didn't know.
Anyway, no idea who he was. Mmm-hmm.
Okay, I get it. I get that dumb.
People think we're as dumb as they are, so he thinks will just
fall for that. We're in charge here.
Folks were the majority and we have to stop this.
We can't let this continue. What happened last night with
that jury in d.c. That's a good thing that's
taking a stand. No you cannot commit this kind
of crime in this country but we also cannot let the leaders who
plot and plan encourage and Lead.
Violent. Violent.
Uprisings and revolts they're only going to continue with my
friends and they're going to continue it in a much more
aggressive way. If we don't stop them, they need
to see what's going to happen if they decide to participate at
this sort of endeavor. And if the main, if the main
leader of this Donald J, Trump is allowed to go scot-free
without having to pay for his treason.
For his racism. Well, I guess we won't be
anything new for him, right? Because he's gotten away with
everything else. Before, he's gotten away with it
since Daddy. Since he was just a young young
young, man, helping daddy run his apartment complexes in New
York City. And whenever a family would come
into want to rent an apartment in Brooklyn or Queens.
If they were black, little C went on on the application form.
We'll see, I think we'll see with a circle.
I like a copyright sign but it didn't mean copyright a mint
colored. And out of the thousands of
families that they rented Apartments to the federal
government said, they can only find something like seven black
families that were in these big Trump apartment buildings. and
they had to settle with the federal government, they were
sued in a Civil Trial, not a criminal trial, of course, that
criminal game be criminal to deny a black family in
apartment, but they had to settle.
They had to essentially admit that their racism ran their
operation. And basically got off scot-free.
It's been that way as whole life.
Don't you think? It's time.
We put a stop to it. Then he would have the audacity
after being soundly defeated. He in the candidates, he
endorsed in this election three weeks ago that just a few days
after that, He announces, he's running for president again.
Who are we? Somebody who tried to overthrow
the United States. Government, somebody who tried
to overturn a legitimate election.
Somebody who tried to stop the individual that we, the people
voted for by over 7 million votes over the number of votes.
He got complete and utter rejection in 2020 and then how
they were supposed to completely take over here on November 8th
of this year and they got defeated in the Senate.
They got defeated across the country numerous governorships,
the most women now is governors in this country that we've had
ever. But looks like they may have the
house by four votes, four votes out of 435.
With a majority leader that isn't sure.
He's got enough votes to become a majority leader and it may
actually go to a floor fight which hasn't happened in a
hundred years that since 1923 has there been a fight within a
party as to who the majority leader, will the speaker of the
house is going to be wow. That's how much they're in
control. It's going to be one shitshow
after another for them. And you know what?
I was telling you last week. Remember that in this case in
the 2020 election, the two years there were sixteen members of
Congress elected that never made it to the end of the term, two
years later. If they quit, or they died or
they were indicted, or they caught in a scandal or for any,
of a number of reasons, we need to be ready for that because
it's going to actually, it already started sadly yesterday.
A democratic member of Congress passed away.
Donald mceachin is part of the Congressional Black Caucus.
And he didn't make it. So they're already going to have
to have a special election at some point to replace them.
We have to make sure we keep that seat but this is what
happens in any Congress. That's why it's never really
over and we should be ready to run the right.
People in these special elections especially when a
republican has to leave because of some Scandal or being
indicted or whatever or like in Alaska, where the Republican
Congressman this past year died and in the special election, a
Native Alaskan. A woman wins a Democrat. if we
really are still willing to fight, if we are still willing
to put up the best candidates, How do they hang on?
If they only are ahead by four votes in the house now?
Four votes. So, what that means is if two
Republicans change their mind or don't show up, or just vote
present, It's a tie vote. They've got a whole all that 220
Republicans together in always vote the same way every time and
they are are good at that. There's no doubt about that but
we live in a different time. We live in a strange time and
nothing nothing should be assumed here and we should stand
ready to take back the house during these two years.
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