As Stewart Rhodes is sentenced to prison after his seditious conspiracy conviction, remember: The Oath Keepers founder received tacit support from a GOP congressman just this week. (via MaddowBlog)
The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol following his conviction on seditious conspiracy. The sentence for Stewart Rhodes is the longest imposed on a Jan. 6 defendant to date., part of what made this case striking was the seriousness of the details: Prosecutors accused Rhodes of conspiring to use force to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
As the sentence came down, I found myself thinking, not of the defendant or his crime, but of Rep. Thomas Massie. After all, it was just a couple of days ago when the Kentucky Republicanoffering what appeared to be tacit support for Rhodes, lamenting the felon’s looming sentence, and questioning whether prosecutors were engaging in the “weaponization of speech.”
In other words, in the biggest sedition trial in generations, a member of the ostensible “law and order” party thought it’d be a good idea to offer some encouragement for a convicted felon who conspired against his own country. As for the near future, Rhodes is headed to prison, though it remains an open question as to whether or not the Oath Keepers founder would receive a pardon from Trump should the Republican be elected to a second term.
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