Oath Keepers tried to get Trump contacts earlier than Jan. 6: Report

Members of the Oath Keepers group tried to get in touch with then-President Donald Trump's staff previous the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, in accordance with a report.

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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes tried to get the group's basic counsel, Kellye SoRelle, who volunteered for Attorneys for Trump, which pushed authorized challenges aiming to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election, to provide him her contacts in and across the Trump administration, in accordance with a report from NBC News.

SoRelle mentioned she had contacts linked to the Trump administration, in addition to former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Rhodes hoped to ship an e-mail to Trump's interior circle advocating the invocation of the Revolt Act, the lawyer mentioned.

"He was hitting me up for a contact," SoRelle mentioned. "He didn’t have any entry factors."

SoRelle mentioned she by no means put Rhodes in touch with anybody within the Trump administration as a result of she had a "firewall" between her enterprise with the Oath Keepers and her work with the authorized challenges to the election.

Final week, Rhodes provided to testify publicly earlier than the Home committee investigating the riot. The Jan. 6 committee could have one other listening to Tuesday.

Rhodes is accused of coming into a restricted space and serving to coordinate a seditious conspiracy together with his fellow Oath Keepers, although prosecutors don't allege he entered the Capitol constructing in the course of the riot.