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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElmer Rhodes might very well die in prison or he is going to be very old when he gets out.
WASHINGTON Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, was found guilty on Tuesday, Nov. 29, of seditious conspiracy for last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to overturn then-President Donald
Trump's 2020 election loss an important victory for the Justice Department.
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Four other Oath Keepers members charged with seditious conspiracy are due to go to trial in December. Members of another right-wing group called the Proud Boys, including its former chairman Enrique Tarrio, also are due to head to trial on seditious conspiracy charges in December.
https://www.dglobe.com/news/national/oath-keepers-founder-convicted-of-sedition-in-capitol-attack-plot
Seditious conspiracy is up to 20 years, he is facing another 40 years on his other convictions, and since I THINK
this was in a federal court you have to do much of your time before you are up for parole. I hope U.S. District
Judge Amit Mehta thinks of Officer Sicknick when sentencing Elmer.
Elmer and Alex Jones
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)NOT!
Buh-bye, asshole!
Botany
(70,627 posts)I hope those "Proud Boys" assholes get the same sort of time too. BTW did you know that Elmer
worked for Ron Paul and was disbarred in Montana?
Assholes who screamed into the mics, downloaded their twisted right wing shit onto "the internets,"
those christo fascist pastors and GOPers, and "those perky blonds and hate talkers" selling their lies
on Fox are cancers on America.
I expect the GOP and their supporting billionaires to keep pushing their crap through a new group of
hate talkers.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)but it's well-deserved.
rpannier
(24,345 posts)Not surprised
Every time I see Ron Paul's name, it's either pushing the collapse of the U.S. economy, so buy silver, or it's associated with some new government conspiracy that he's cooked up
rpannier
(24,345 posts)Cletus, Clotis and Clueless
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)their thuggish tactics on 1/6 and corruptly taking over the government and replacing it w/ djt and his failed regime deserve every bit of their punishment.
What is left is the last domino to fall, djt himself, who instigated the whole scheme. My bottle of wine still sits on my wine rack, until he's finally indicted for crimes against the U.S. One day, one day...
Botany
(70,627 posts)... order to cause division in America. If we had stopped him from installing Trump in 2016
we would not have had Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the global C-19 pandemic. I have
wondered just how deep Russia and Putin's tie to America's right wing and organizations
such as Fox are? Every time I hear, "Hunter Biden's lap top" my brain goes to Russian talking
point.*
* https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html
gab13by13
(21,473 posts)if Trump is president in 2025, or maybe if any Magat is president in 2025.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Any Republican who runs for president and says they will pardon the traitors will not win the presidency.
Irish_Dem
(47,597 posts)gab13by13
(21,473 posts)What people still call the Republican party is an anti-democratic party comprised of White supremacists and bigoted racists. Mitt Romney gets a pass.