Oath Keeper leader's family fears Trump pardon
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🗓️ 27 October 2024
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On January 6th, 2021, the nation watched as a violent attack unfolded in Washington D.C. That’s when thousands of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol building. But how did we get here? In 2009, a Yale educated attorney and former Army paratrooper named Stewart Rhodes founded a far-right anti-government militia called the Oath Keepers. How did Rhodes come to create, recruit and lead the group whose name would become synonymous with the attack on the Capitol? And why is his family terrified that, should Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election, the man they fear most could be pardoned and released? USA TODAY National Correspondent and Extremism Reporter Will Carless has spent years covering the Oath Keepers and the trial of Stewart Rhodes. He joins The Excerpt to share his conversations with Stewart Rhodes's family.
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| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the excerpt, I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Sunday October 27th, |
| 0:25.8 | 2024. On January 6th, 2021, the nation watched as a violent attack unfolded in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:34.0 | That's when thousands of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol building. |
| 0:38.0 | But how did we get here? |
| 0:40.0 | Or rather, how did they get there? |
| 0:43.0 | In 2009, a Yale educated attorney and former Army Paratrooper named Stuart Rhodes |
| 0:49.0 | founded a far-right anti-government militia called the Oath Keepers. How did Rhodes come to create, |
| 0:56.0 | recruit, and lead the group whose name would become synonymous with the attack on the capital |
| 1:01.2 | on January 6th. |
| 1:03.0 | And why is his family terrified |
| 1:05.0 | that should Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election, |
| 1:09.0 | the man they fear most could be pardoned and released. |
| 1:13.0 | My ex-husband is Stuart Rhodes. |
| 1:15.0 | He's the founder and president of the Oathkeepers, |
| 1:19.0 | the militia who was the mastermind behind the entire January 6th disaster. Terrorist attack. |
| 1:28.0 | That's Tasha Adams, Stuart Rhodes now ex-wife, one of their children, Dakota Adams, the eldest of six, also agreed to speak with us. |
| 1:37.0 | If Stewart is released from prison, my minor siblings especially need to not be in the United States anymore like before he has a chance to get to Montana. |
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