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 "'Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia,' he said Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'
11/16/25 08:29 AM
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In the years that followed the Jan. 6 attack, several hundred rioters were charged with a variety of crimes, but the case against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was qualitatively different. In the largest sedition trial in the U.S. since the aftermath of World War II, Rhodes was charged with seditious conspiracy.
Charges like these are hard to prove and incredibly uncommon — Americans rarely try to overthrow their own government. In Rhodes’ case, however, prosecutors succeeded: He was found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison.
“I dare say, Mr. Rhodes — and I never have said this to anyone I have sentenced — you, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country and to the republic and to the very fabric of this democracy,” said Judge Amit Mehta at the proceedings.
Twenty months later, on Jan. 21, 2025, Rhodes was a free man, thanks to a pardon from Donald Trump, the Republican whom Rhodes illegally plotted to help.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-pardon-hand-stewart-rhodes-says-s-rebuilding-oath-keepers-rcna243280
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