The far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder serving 18 years for the Capitol riot visited Capitol Hill after President Trump freed him.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted of orchestrating his far-right extremist group’s Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, showed up on Capitol Hill a day after he was released from prison as part of President Trump's sweeping clemency order. Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases brought by the Justice Department, met with at least one lawmaker during his Wednesday visit and chatted with others. He defended his Jan.
Chutkan added that her order dismissing the case against an Illinois man who was charged with firing a gun into the air during the riot cannot 'diminish the heroism of law enforcement officers' who defended the Capitol. “It cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake,” Chutkan wrote. “And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America’s sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.
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