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bigtree

(90,755 posts) Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:49 PM Jan 25

Trump invites terrorist on stage at a presidential event in Las Vegas

Anna Bower @AnnaBower 1h
“My only regret is they should have brought rifles,” Stewart Rhodes said four days after Jan. 6.

“We could have fixed it right then and there,” he said. “I'd hang fucking Pelosi from the lamppost.”

Selina Wang @selinawangtv
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is at Trump’s speech in Las Vegas, just days after Trump commuted his 18-year sentence.

Rhodes has VIP seating on the stage where President Trump is about to take the stage to promote his “no tax on tips” proposal.

Selina Wang @selinawangtv
Rhodes was on Capitol Hill earlier this week just one day after he was released from prison. He had been serving his sentence for seditious conspiracy in the January 6th attack on the Capitol until Trump’s commutation.

Following that surprise visit to Capitol Hill, a federal judge barred Rhodes from entering the Us Capitol or Washington DC.

emptywheel (check) @emptywheel 1h
Reminder: In commuting Rhodes' sentence, Trump effectively said, "Yeah, Rhodes is guilty of sedition AND terrorism [he got a terrorism enhancement at sentencing], but I think 3 years is enough punishment." Which means he invited a terrorist on stage with him.

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.

Even after the Capitol attack, Mr. Rhodes kept trying to keep Mr. Trump in office. Testimony at his trial showed that he sought to persuade a soldier turned I.T. expert who had ties to Mr. Trump to get the president a message, begging him to maintain his grip on power and offering to mobilize members of the Oath Keepers to keep him in the White House.

More than most Jan. 6 defendants, Mr. Rhodes left a voluminous paper trail of his increasingly violent thoughts after Mr. Trump lost the election and Joseph R. Biden Jr. was set to enter the White House. In private text messages and public open letters on the Oath Keepers’ website, he said his organization might have to engage in civil war to defeat his perceived enemies: a supposed coalition of the Democrats, leftist protesters and the Chinese Communist Party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/stewart-rhodes-trump-jan-6-oath-keepers.html

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Trump invites terrorist on stage at a presidential event in Las Vegas (Original Post) bigtree Jan 25 OP

I'm trying to use the F word less. yellow dahlia Jan 25 #1

They're shoving it in our faces and they don't fucking care. Deuxcents Jan 25 #2

I'd like to think trump is shoving it in the faces BOSSHOG Jan 25 #3

Don't bet on it. B.See Jan 25 #4

Thank you, BOSSHOG...A better way to interpret some of this. Deuxcents Jan 25 #5

Days after being released D. Spaulding Jan 25 #6

They love terrorists because they are terrorists themselves NameAlreadyTaken Jan 25 #7

Just add it to the list we kacekwl Jan 25 #8

yellow dahlia

(1,065 posts)

1. I'm trying to use the F word less.

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:54 PM

Jan 25

Not easy.

So now the insurrectionist unhinged fucking seditious conspirator is a welcome guest of the fucking felonious grifter pretending to be a president? And this isn't an SNL skit?

I'm using sarcasm to deflect my anger.

Deuxcents

(20,709 posts)

2. They're shoving it in our faces and they don't fucking care.

Reply to yellow dahlia (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:59 PM

Jan 25

I’ve tried very hard not to cuss so much but I’m gonna let ‘er rip whenever I’m moved to do so 🤬

BOSSHOG

(40,887 posts)

3. I'd like to think trump is shoving it in the faces

Reply to Deuxcents (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 25, 2025, 09:15 PM

Jan 25

Of elected spineless republicans in Washington. Maybe if some DC police are murdered by those set free by trump we might see a bit of spine growth. Their futures are in peril as well. Their latest spineless event of voting for an alcoholic sex offender as SECDEF gives one pause.

B.See

(4,288 posts)

4. Don't bet on it.

Reply to BOSSHOG (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 25, 2025, 09:23 PM

Jan 25

Nothing these terrorists do on behalf of diktator day one, to citizen or cop, will matter to any of his sychophants and deplorables.

Deuxcents

(20,709 posts)

5. Thank you, BOSSHOG...A better way to interpret some of this.

Reply to BOSSHOG (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 25, 2025, 09:27 PM

Jan 25

I need to take a deep breath n get some oxygen to my brain before I go bazerk reading some of this madness. Hope they come to their senses before anyone else dies..