The Oath Keepers have always wanted a civil war, and they are the largest militia in the United States. The group’s Twitter account was banned recently for trying to incite violence. Its founder, Stewart Rhodes, 55, was also banned by the social media site. The Independent’s Richard Hall had a chat with Rhodes, and it was bizarre, to say the least. The Oath Keepers were present at the so-called “Million MAGA March” to support the outgoing president.
“I think about half this country won’t recognize Biden as legitimate. They won’t recognize this election,” Rhodes told Hall. “What that means is that everything that comes out of his mouth will be considered not of any force or effect, anything he signs into law we won’t recognize as legitimate. We’ll be very much like the founding fathers. We’ll end up nullifying and resisting.”
Well, that’s not how it works, but OK. Rhodes claimed the election was stolen, but there’s no proof of that.
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Had a brief discussion with Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far right Oath Keepers militia, about alleged voter fraud. He says he won’t recognise Biden as president and will resist enforcement of any law he passes. pic.twitter.com/DAbAMqsbE2
— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) November 14, 2020
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When asked what he meant by “resisting” anything Biden signs into law, the stocky Oath Keepers’ founder said that “when it comes time to enforce it, we’ll defend ourselves against the enforcement.”
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Here’s the last bit. pic.twitter.com/pHAk5ybu99
— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) November 14, 2020
Whatever happened to “law and order”? Rhodes previously threw his support behind Kyle Rittenhouse after the teenager shot and killed two people protesting police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rhodes called him “a Hero, a Patriot” on Twitter. Rhodes is a deranged lunatic that appears to believe in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that Trump is engaged in a battle with a cabal of Democratic, Satan-worshipping, pedophile elites.
Calling the Oath Keepers a “militia” isn’t really accurate since the organization appears to be more of a group of domestic terrorists. Interestingly, the “stop the count” and “recount” crowd are trying to steal an election by claiming the election was stolen. It doesn’t matter whether they want to go all “not my president” on Joe Biden, who will, in fact, take the oath of office in January.
Last week, a letter, signed by leaders of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, stated that the 2020 presidential election was the “most secure in American history.” Meanwhile, Trump’s attorney’s have failed to provide evidence of widespread voter fraud in court.
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