Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes — who was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — used a new jailhouse interview to push “deep state” conspiracy theories and claimed that his trial can be used as a blueprint for how federal prosecutors will convict former President Donald Trump.
Hey, convict, it is FORMER President!
Elmer sounds sad that he was convicted for just being really, really adjacent to a conspiracy to fuck up America’s shit.
Are jail administrators required to permit inmates to do interviews with journalists? I thought almost every aspect of their daily life was subject to the decisions of prison staff and management. Is speaking to a journalist a right that must be provided? What does a prisoner say, “WaPo wants to send a reporter to the visiting room for an extended session with me, you MUST get this on my schedule!”?
Stewart Rhodes is upset that they used his own words against him and that his friends didn’t want to go to jail for being associated with his actions.
Derp.
How and why does Elmer Stewart Rhodes have any agency and messaging here? He is deep in the Bureau of Prisons and will not emerge for 18 years, if ever. He is over.
(disclaimer: I did not read the article, for the above reasons)
ETA: I see the origin is the moonie times. Hint: if you’re reading the washington times and the ny post, you’re doing it wrong.
There is something about Rhodes’ self-pity and complete loss of hope that I find so delightful I wish I could process it and create a small liquid extract to be sipped in the evening as I watch the light gently collapse behind the horizon.
Meh… some jailhouse convict blathers
I doubt he has lost all hope. He’ll be pardoned or granted clemency the next time a Republican is in the Oval Office.
“And I was found guilty of seditious conspiracy, although they had zero evidence of an actual plan. They just used my speech. It will be the same thing with President Trump.”
You went to Yale Law School, asshole. You understand that words matter because they can lead to actions that become crimes. So shut the fuck up and go back to your license plate-making.
Look to those closest to the criminals for a hint and a half as to their character:
18 years wasn’t enough for traitor Rhodes. He should have been sentenced to life in prison with no parole.
Rhodes, like most of the MAGAts, is akin to toxic waste, i.e. they cannot be recycled…EVER!
Once you get into yale law school, they do their best to get you out of yale law school. Usually by graduating you. Really
“They’re going to do the same thing to President Trump that they did to me,”
Please be right… please be right… please be right… please be right…
I see his point. I believe there was zero evidence that these cosplaying grifters were actually capable of planning breakfast.
Why is a convicted criminal being interviewed? This makes no sense.
“They’re going to do the same thing to President Trump that they did to me,”
. . . And for much the same reason. Expect to see a great deal more of the faux-victim rhetoric out of Trump if he is convicted. It is difficult to accept that Rhodes believes his own cynical and self-serving comments any more than Trump does. Or, perhaps “did” might be more accurate, in light of Trump’s mental state these days.
Washington Times
Why is TPM running a story about a convicted criminal and asking for donations while they do so? I don’t think so.