Tag Archives: Oath Keepers

BREAKING: Oath Keepers Leader Sentenced To 18 Years

CNN reports: The federal judge presiding over sentencing for Oath Keepers members convicted of seditious conspiracy has ruled that militia leader Stewart Rhodes’ actions amounted to domestic terrorism. The finding signals that Rhodes, 58, may face decades in prison when he is formally sentenced later Thursday. “This is an additional level of calculation, this is an additional level of planning, …

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Oath Keepers Founder Wants Sentence Of Time Served

CBS News reports: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is asking for a sentence of time served, after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors argued was a violent plan to ensure former President Donald Trump remained in the White House, though he had lost the 2020 presidential election. The Justice Department is seeking a 25-year prison sentence for …

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Prosecutors Seek 25 Years For Oath Keepers Founder

The Washington Post reports: U.S. prosecutors on Friday asked a federal judge to sentence Oath Keepers founder and leader Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison and eight of his followers to at least 10 years behind bars starting later this month, in the first punishments to be handed down to far-right extremist group members convicted of seditious conspiracy in …

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Florida Oath Keeper Sentenced To Seven Years

The Florida Phoenix reports: Jeremy Brown, a self-described Oath Keepers member and lauded 20-year U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, was sentenced on Friday in Tampa to more than seven years in federal prison on weapons charges related to a federal investigation into his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol. The 48-year old Brown was found …

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Jury Finds Four Oath Keepers Guilty Of Obstruction

NBC News reports: Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted of conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on Monday, as a judge ordered jurors to continue deliberating the most serious counts against two additional defendants. Sandra Parker, Laura Steele, Connie Meggs and William Isaacs were found guilty of …

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Four Oath Keepers Found Guilty Of Seditious Conspiracy

The Washington Post reports: Four members of the far-right Oath Keepers group were convicted of seditious conspiracy Monday, joining founder Stewart Rhodes in being found guilty by a jury of plotting to keep President Donald Trump in power by force. Seditious conspiracy charges are rarely used and even more rarely successful. At Rhodes’s trial only he and Florida Oath Keepers …

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Florida Oath Keeper Found Guilty Of Multiple Felonies

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Jeremy Brown, a former U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant linked to the Jan. 6 insurrection, was found guilty Monday on six of 10 federal criminal charges related to weapons and classified information that authorities found in his Tampa home. After a weeklong trial, a jury of six men and six women deliberated about five …

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TODAY: Second Oath Keepers Sedition Trial Begins

The Associated Press reports: After securing seditious conspiracy convictions against two leaders of the Oath Keepers, the Justice Department will begin Monday to try to make its Capitol riot case against four others affiliated with the far-right extremist group. Openings statements are expected in Washington’s federal court less than two weeks after Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, …

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BREAKING: Oath Keepers Leader Guilty Of Sedition

Reuters reports: A jury reached a verdict on Tuesday in the criminal trial of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, and four associates, all facing seditious conspiracy charges arising from last year’s U.S. Capitol attack by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters, a lawyer for Rhodes said. The four co-defendants of Rhodes in the trial are Kelly Meggs, …

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Trans Rioter: Bullying Turned Me Into An Oath Keeper

Law & Crime reports: Surprising a federal judge with her 11th hour decision to testify, transgender Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins told jurors about the bullying and abandonment she faced over her identity. When her secret got out, Watkins said, she was shunned by her parents, went “AWOL” from the Army, and ultimately found a homecoming both with her family and …

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Oath Keeper’s Wife: He Wore Depends, Not Body Armor

Law & Crimes reports: Over the course of the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, attorneys for one of the oldest members from the group to be prosecuted have tried to recast him as an elderly bystander to the Jan. 6-related upheaval. The wife of that defendant, Thomas Caldwell, colorfully expanded upon that theme on Monday, when she told a jury …

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Rhodes Claims No Knowledge Of Plan To Storm Capitol

The Associated Press reports: Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes told jurors on Monday there was no plan for his band of extremists to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as he tries to clear his name in his seditious conspiracy trial. Taking the stand in his defense for a second day, Rhodes testified that he had no idea …

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Rhodes On Tape: “Hang Pelosi From The Lamppost”

CBS News reports: Federal prosecutors played a recording of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes meeting with members of his far-right militia on Jan. 10, 2021, days after he and other Oath Keepers allegedly participated in an attack on the U.S. Capitol building. “My only regret is they should have brought rifles,” Rhodes says in the recording, which was obtained by …

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Oath Keepers Head Wrote Trump: Seize Power By Force

Law & Crime reports: A government witness in the seditious conspiracy trial of Stewart Rhodes claims the Oath Keepers leader asked him to deliver a message telling then-President Donald Trump to seize power by force. “You must use the insurrection act and use the power of the Presidency to stop him,” Rhodes allegedly told Trump in a typewritten message entered …

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Musk Reinstates Oath Keeper AZ Sec Of State Nominee

The Daily Beast reports: One of the most hardcore conspiracy theorists and election deniers on the ballot this November thanked Elon Musk for “fixing” his Twitter ban just hours after the tech billionaire promised he was “looking into” it Monday. Mark Finchem, the GOP candidate for Arizona’s Secretary of State, wrote on his Facebook page on Monday afternoon that Twitter …

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Oath Keeper: I Felt Like We Were Storming The Bastille

NBC News reports: “I felt it was like a Bastille-type moment in history,” Graydon Young told jurors in the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four other members of the organization. “I thought that I participated in something that was potentially a historically significant event.” Young, who previously pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and obstruction of …

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Trial Audio Shows Rhodes Quoting Lincoln’s Assassin

Law & Crime reports: On the west side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes appeared to gloat on tape about the prospect of lawmakers quaking in fear about the breach of Congress by the pro-Trump mob. “They need to shit their fucking pants,” Rhodes could be heard saying in footage entered into evidence on …

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Oath Keeper Testifies He Was Ready To Die For Trump

The Associated Press reports: A member of the far-right Oath Keepers who stormed the U.S. Capitol testified that he was ready to fight to keep former President Donald Trump in office and was preparing himself in the weeks before Jan. 6 to say goodbye to his family, he testified in a seditious conspiracy trial on Tuesday. Jason Dolan, a 46-year-old …

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Rhodes Bought Arsenal On His Way To Capitol Riot

The New York Times reports: In the days before a pro-Trump mob — including members of his own organization — broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, went on a cross-country weapon-buying spree. Setting out for Washington from Texas, his home state, Mr. Rhodes stopped at least six times, bank …

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Oath Keepers Had Massive Weapons Stash Near DC

Politico reports: A member of the Oath Keepers who traveled with the group to Washington D.C. ahead of the Jan. 6 riot described a massive stockpile of firearms and other weaponry that allies had stashed in an Arlington, Va. hotel. “I had not seen that many weapons in one location since I was in the military,” recalled Terry Cummings, a …

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