Posted on 11/07/2024 1:08:58 PM PST by RandFan
The ex-wife and son of the founder of the Oath Keepers are expressing concern that their safety could be compromised if former President Trump pardons Stewart Rhodes in a potential second term.
Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol. The Oath Keepers are seen as one of the main groups involved in the attack. Trump has said he would pardon rioters from that day should he win the White House.
In an interview with USA Today, Rhodes’s ex-wife, Tasha Adams, said she fears the safety of herself and her six children might be at risk should Stewart be free from behind bars.
“He is somebody that had a kill list — always,” she said. “And obviously, now I’m on this list, and so are some of my kids, I’m sure.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Enrico is another Minority painted as a “White Supremacist” and is a political prisoner.
Yes I only posted this to remind everyone of Stewart’s predicament and hopefully a likely pardon for him in due course
It was simply the most recent article I could find...
In case anyone wondered....
We all know they’re biased as hell and the original article appeared in USA Today last week
Let’s keep posting the enemies propaganda non stop here
She had 6 kids with a guy she claims is terrified of? Six?
I know I get this a lot but most can see past the obvious SPIN
Sometimes they’re good discussion points to have
It depends what’s being covered..
This was the most recent and relevant kind of article on Rhodes..
So why not post / share it and put our own response on the record.
I wanted to remind folks of his situation.... A lot of influential people read this forum...
Sounds like there might be some justification for them being on a “list”...
Enrique Tarrio wasn’t even at the Capitol and received 20 years.
This is interesting....
WASHINGTON — An F.B.I. informant who was embedded for months in the inner circle of Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, is likely to testify as a defense witness at the seditious conspiracy trial of Mr. Rhodes in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The informant, Greg McWhirter, served as the Oath Keepers’ vice president but was secretly reporting to the F.B.I. about the group’s activities in the weeks and months leading up to the Capitol attack, according to two people familiar with the matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at web.archive.org ..
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*** Curiously, witness Greg McWhirter, about 40 yrs of age, had a heart attack while on board a plane and was unable to testify after all.***
Need to see if he survived that heart attack.
Oh. I see.
From another thread in a story about the questioning of Chris Wray about having FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters at the Capitol:
“...I believe he [Chris Wray] refused to answer [The congressman] because it would open a Pandora’s box. Wray did have sources in not only the Oath Keepers but in the Proud Boys as well. According to the NY Times (via Steve Krakauer)
NYT reports the #2 man in the Oath Keepers, Greg McWhirter, was actually an FBI informant, talking to them for months ahead of the Capitol attack.
And the NY Times reports “the FBI “had as many as eight informants inside” inside the Proud Boys, in the months before AND after the January 6 riot.”
The FBI knew what was coming. The big question is why did they let it happen? They could have shut the whole down and charged many with conspiracy, but no....”
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
His family testified against him. Pricks.
Pardon them all.
Let’s call him “President Elect.”
“There should be a “pardon commission” the list is so long.”
No... a “commission” will start looking case by case, recommending this and that, etc.
Have the AG print out a list of all J6 and prolife protester cases. It is already well organized.
Then pardon every single one.
When is Ray Epps and his gang going to be indicted or is Pelosi protecting them?
The Hill may as well be Media Matters.
““I get an immediate adrenaline spike from heavy footsteps on a floor above me, because that was the key that Stewart had woken up from a 12 hour prescription painkiller nap and was coming downstairs to scream at everybody,” said Adams, who is running for the state Legislature as a Democrat in Montana.”
A daughter becomes a Democrat and trashes her dad. How unusual.
Kids in their 20s hating a dad who embarrassed them. How unusual.
Via Nick Arama of Redstate:
” ... The informant, Greg McWhirter, served as the Oath Keepers’ vice president but was secretly reporting to the F.B.I. about the group’s activities in the weeks and months leading up to the Capitol attack, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
But that wasn’t all. Let’s read on.
“Mr. McWhirter is the second known F.B.I. confidential source who was in a position to provide information to federal agents about the Oath Keepers before Jan. 6, raising questions about why investigators did not know more about the attack on the Capitol.
Near the start of Mr. Rhodes’s trial, Abdullah Rasheed, a former Oath Keeper from West Virginia, told the jury that he became alarmed by the violent language Mr. Rhodes used during a video conference with members of his group in November 2020 and provided the F.B.I. with a recording of the call.
“The more I listened to the call,” Mr. Rasheed testified, “it sounded like we were going to war against the United States government.”
Officials at the F.B.I. did not respond to Mr. Rasheed’s initial attempts to contact them and only reached out to him after Jan. 6.
The F.B.I. also had a confidential source in the Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys in the months leading up to Jan. 6. That person, a low-level member of the far-right group, marched with other Proud Boys into the Capitol on Jan. 6. But in meetings with the government before the Capitol was stormed, he told investigators that the organization had not planned to attack the building and stop the certification of the 2020 election.”
“But during an impromptu hearing on Tuesday morning, the lawyers said that Mr. McWhirter had been taken off a plane while traveling to Washington to testify after suffering a heart attack.
Because of his medical condition, the lawyers said, Mr. McWhirter was unable to appear on the witness stand on Tuesday. While the defense lawyers still want him to testify, it remained unclear when he might be able to do so”
I watched a live stream. What I saw was a bunch of people milling about in front of the bike barriers the police erected. A few started to move them but were restrained by others. Unhappy but well behaved.
Then the police fired pepper balls, tear gas and flash bangs. I didn't see or hear any order to disperse.
The crowd pulled back a bit. Some threw the tear gas back. Then they all kind of looked at each other and stormed the barricades at once.
The cops, in full riot gear, turned tail and ran. I still recall the fear in their faces as the crowd surged forward.
It was a police riot: the whole event was provoked.
They should all be pardoned.
So, she wants him to stay in jail?
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