Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III has established the Patriots Legal Defense Fund with an initial goal to raise $5 million to help provide legal representation for “various non-violent, peaceful Americans who demonstrated and exercised their First Amendment rights in Washington D.C. on Jan. 5–6, 2021.”
“I am touched and encouraged that patriots, friends, family, and lovers of American liberty have undertaken this project,” Rhodes said in a statement from the Alexandria City Jail in Virginia, where he is being held pending trial on charges of seditious conspiracy and other Jan. 6–related counts.
