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Who Invited the Head of the Oath Keepers to President Trump’s Rally?
Know a man by the company he keeps
Why can’t some of us stop writing about our problems with Donald Trump? The answer is that Trump won’t let us. Since his election in November, Trump has sought to shock his opponents with out-of-the-box nominations, outrageous proposals like reclaiming the Panama Canal by force, launching a cryptocurrency two days before taking office, and firing 17 Inspector Generals. All these actions, some illegal or unethical, merit — require — people to speak out.
On Sunday morning, when not focused on the NFC and AFC championship games, I read the newspaper. I felt nauseous when I read that Stewart Rhodes, the head of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers, had not only attended a Donald Trump Rally in Los Vegas on January 25 but was given a coveted spot standing right behind the President.
President Trump commuted Stewart Rhodes’ 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy involving the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Here is what Wikimedia reports Rhodes did:
In the days before January 6, 2021, Rhodes and others traveled to Washington, D.C…
