Before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Oath Keepers member Graydon Young said the lead-up to the riot was 'exhilarating.' Today, Young told a federal judge and jury in the sedition trial of five Oath Keepers: 'I feel extremely ashamed.'
A member of the far-right Oath Keepers movement who entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot told a federal court judge and jury on Monday that upon entering the building he and fellow Oath Keepers felt elated. But now he feels only ashamed.
At one point, Young told the jury, he communicated directly with Rhodes, who told him it would not be a “fool’s errand” to head to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. He testified that he sent a Facebook post at 4:22 p.m. on the afternoon of the riot, declaring “We stormed and got inside.” Later that night he left Washington with his sister. The day after arriving at her North Carolina residence, Young said he burned a helmet and vest he had taken to the riot as well as an Oath Keepers shirt. By then, he said, he and his sister were “solidly in freakout mode.
Under questioning from a defense lawyer, Young acknowledged that before the riot, he was unaware of any explicit plan or intent on the Oath Keepers’ part to breach the Capitol and that the move to do so was just a “stupid, let's do this thing. ... We didn’t explicitly say we were going to go in. We all just went in. It was spontaneous.”Under reexamination by the prosecution, Young said, “I guess I was acting as a traitor to my own government.
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