Federal prosecutors want the founder of the Oath Keepers sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.
Prosecutors wrote that the"scope and scale of Rhodes’ conduct in calling for and conspiring to perpetrate violence against the U.S. government to change the results of a presidential election and retaliate against Congress for certifying those results merits" increasing the amount of time he spends in prison because the attack was a crime of terrorism.
"Defendant Rhodes stands out among the conspirators for the frequency and vehemence with which he urged his followers to use intimidation and coercion to influence and affect the conduct of government and to retaliate against government conduct ," prosecutors wrote.
Prosecutors cited a case involving the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, noting that the defendants were"sentenced under the Treason guidelines" and received sentences ranging from 25 years to life in prison.
Prosecutors said Rhodes"used his talents for manipulation to goad more than twenty other American citizens into using force, intimidation, and violence to seek to impose their preferred result on a U.S. presidential election" and deserved 300 months in federal prison. "The Court saw evidence at trial of Rhodes’ talent at finding and exploiting potential followers’ manipulation points," prosecutors wrote."Co-conspirators Jason Dolan, Graydon Young, and Caleb Berry all provided powerful testimony about how Rhodes’ framing of that moment in time—as a critical turning point in an ongoing battle against a tyrannical government—gave them purpose and meaning that was lacking in their lives for different reasons.
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