The first Oath Keeper to plead guilty to conspiracy in a Jan. 6th trial, Graydon Young, told a jury that he really believed that the US government was covering up election fraud.
After admitting that he ‘listened to Trump’s attorneys’ he thought:
“I thought maybe an organization like [the Oath Keepers]…might be an effective way to get involved,” Young said, adding that he had felt protests weren’t making a difference.
Now, looking back, “I guess I was acting like a traitor against my own government,” Young testified.
Young could face a sentence of more than five years in prison, according to estimates read at his plea hearing, though he may get time deducted for cooperating with prosecutors. He has also agreed to pay $2,000 in restitution for damage done to the Capitol building.
Meanwhile, the other Oath Keepers on trial – Rhodes, Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Thomas Caldwell and Jessica Watkins – have all pleaded not guilty to charges including seditious conspiracy.