Alan Hostetter, a former police chief who has been arrested and charged for his alleged involvement in the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol building, went on a fact-free tirade during a hearing on Thursday that earned him a rebuke from Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
As reported by Scott MacFarlane of CBS News, Hostetter argued in his effort to get his case dismissed that the January 6th riots were a setup by the federal government -- and that even Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in on it.
Per MacFarlane, Hostetter said that Rhodes' conviction on seditious conspiracy charges and his subsequent 18-year prison sentence were all part of an elaborate ruse to conceal the Oath Keeper leader's role in ratting out his fellow Trump supporters to federal agents.
He also accused the Department of Justice of concealing the identities of informants it had placed within far-right movements to incite them to storm the Capitol.
Judge Lamberth, however, did not buy any of what Hostetter was peddling and swiftly denied his motion to dismiss the case.
"You don’t have any facts to support your allegations," he said, according to MacFarlane.
