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New York Times [OFFICIAL]: Trump Commutes Sentence of Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers Militia
NYT ^ | Jan 21 | By Alan Feuer

Posted on 01/21/2025 1:28:53 AM PST by RandFan

When Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers militia, appeared in court in 2023 to be sentenced on sedition charges stemming from the storming of the Capitol, he angrily declared himself a “political prisoner,” echoing language that President Trump has also used to describe those involved with the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

And on Monday, when Mr. Trump commuted Mr. Rhodes’ 18-year prison term to time served, he effectively validated the far-right leader’s belief that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution, as he had defiantly claimed.

Mr. Rhodes, who spent more than a decade running the Oath Keepers before his arrest in 2022, was in the Federal Correctional Institute in Cumberland, Md., when his grant of clemency was handed down. It remained unclear when he might be freed.

While Mr. Rhodes never entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, prosecutors said he oversaw a large contingent of Oath Keepers as they concocted “a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of democracy” — the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election. Prosecutors also said he was on the Capitol grounds as military-style “stacks” of his militia’s members made their way into the building and other armed members stood ready as a “quick reaction force” at a hotel in Virginia in case things went wrong.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; 20210106; 2024election; abdullahrasheed; alanfeuer; dakotaadams; gregmcwhirter; j6; mcwhirter; oathkeepers; stewartrhodes; tasharhodes
THE toilet paper of record (as Mark Levin calls them) has confirmed it. Rhodes is free !!
1 posted on 01/21/2025 1:28:53 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

He wasn’t even at the Capitol...


2 posted on 01/21/2025 1:36:12 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: All

By the way this was definitely one of the most egregious cases and miscarriages of justice.

20 years for being in a hotel? He wasn’t even in DC!


3 posted on 01/21/2025 1:36:31 AM PST by RandFan
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah I know it’s crazy when you look at it

He was convicted of this too .

Goes to show you..


4 posted on 01/21/2025 1:37:37 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

BRAVO!


5 posted on 01/21/2025 1:40:18 AM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: RandFan

I thought Trump would pardon the “mostly peaceful” protestors that got caught up in a riot, and commute the sentences of the handful of people who were convicted of more serious crimes.

These pardons and commutations are in keeping with giving Tik Tok 75 days to clean up their act, so people who want can use their app, and we don’t have to worry about China getting our private information; and, with opening up the files on the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK.

From the top of Mount McKinley, let freedom ring.
To the bottom of the swamp known as DC, let freedom ring.


6 posted on 01/21/2025 1:46:43 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

Trump is on a roll


7 posted on 01/21/2025 1:48:03 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Proclamation 179
Signed by President Andrew Johnson on December 25, 1868
Granted unconditional amnesty to all participants in the rebellion
Restored all rights, privileges, and immunities under the Constitution

This was a REAL Insurection1


8 posted on 01/21/2025 1:51:29 AM PST by muskah (Loose lips sink ships)
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To: RandFan

“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.”

Tasha was going to run as a Democrat for a legislative office in Montana.


9 posted on 01/21/2025 1:58:29 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Redmen4ever

There is an even one that got a fair trial.


10 posted on 01/21/2025 2:18:08 AM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: RandFan

I pray Rhoads can restore his family. Losing them was worse than conviction and prison.


11 posted on 01/21/2025 2:24:31 AM PST by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Sacajaweau

So, he was convicted for leading a group that had more Feds than members??? Hmmmm.

EC


12 posted on 01/21/2025 5:24:27 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: Theophilus

I agree. The feds got Rhodes own son to turn traitor and testify against his father. Sad! I hope the Proud Boys Leaders are also pardoned!


13 posted on 01/21/2025 5:48:14 AM PST by ohioman
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To: RandFan

Too bad that he didn’t murder two FBI agents. Then Biden would have commuted his sentence a day earlier.


14 posted on 01/21/2025 6:03:05 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: RandFan

I am more interested in Tarrio. Was his sentence commuted? I want to see Judge Beryl Howell have a stroke over it


15 posted on 01/21/2025 6:13:11 AM PST by montag813
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Yes. He got a commutation but not sure when he’s being released

They said there was party scheduled in Miami last night


16 posted on 01/21/2025 6:25:51 AM PST by RandFan
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To: Sacajaweau

Well he was at the capitol I believe but never entered the building and all of the Oath keepers left their weapons out of town at their hotel. The Oath keepers who entered the building helped the police.

I’m just thankful they all got released. I think Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit is going to interview Rhoades today. Can’t wait to hear it.


17 posted on 01/21/2025 8:33:26 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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