Oath Keepers – Deep Left Field

Now that he’s been found guilty of seditious conspiracy for his role in January 6, 2021 and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the domestic terrorist militia group has a message for the man he once worshiped, failed former president Donald Trump: You’re going to be found guilty and sent to prison, too.

Speaking with Kerry Pickett of The Washington Times, Rhodes made it clear he doesn’t think Trump will be able to avoid the same fate he suffered.

Rhodes, a Yale Law School graduate and former Army paratrooper who founded the Oath Keepers militia group in 2009, said the federal government is working to turn Mr. Trump’s inner circle against him and scare off potential witnesses for the former president’s defense.

“They’re going to do the same thing to President Trump that they did to me.
“You’re going to get railroaded. You’re going to be found guilty if you try to go to trial. So everyone’s been demoralized and more likely to take a plea deal and agree to ‘test-a-lie’ against President Trump.”

While he was at it, Rhodes also bemoaned the fact that he and others had been convicted, suggesting that some defendants had been threatened with life imprisonment by federal investigators: “(They) threatened [witnesses] with life in prison … That’s what’s going to happen to President Trump.”

Of course, if Rhodes hadn’t played a role in the Capitol insurrection, he wouldn’t have anything to whine about. But he and others did, and every last one of them — including Donald Trump — deserves to have the book thrown at them for attempting to rip up the results of a free and fair election so the loser could remain in power. That’s the sort of shit that takes place in Third World countries, not the greatest republic ever conceived of by man.

Lock every last one of these traitors and insurrectionists up, and show no mercy to any of them.

Recently, a federal jury in Washington, D.C. found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, who is also a member of the extreme right-wing group, guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The two men could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison.

According to a former top FBI official, the guilty verdict should be especially concerning to failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was asked by CNN host Kasie Hunt about what message is being sent to those who have not yet been indicted for the Capitol insurrection:

“Let me ask you about what we saw in the trial. Do you think the events of the last 24 hours have changed the calculation for the Justice Department in terms of whether or not to prosecute the former president, since they were able to secure this conviction?”

McCabe agreed the conviction does indeed turn up the heat on Trump and others:

“No question, in a couple of ways. The comments about the Oath Keeper verdict by the AG (Merrick Garland) is a little more than just a chest-pounding session. He is sending a message to the attorneys representing the other Oath Keepers, whose trial is coming up, and the Proud Boys and whoever might be in the wings later that we can do this. We can put on these complicated, high-stakes political cases and get verdicts. Rethink whether you want to cooperate, provide evidence and seek an easier path.”

He added:

“I think that’s a — it’s a very loud message to those folks who were in leadership positions, who may be being looked at for their role in organizing and instigating the attack. And first and foremost among those is, of course, the former president.”