A U.S. judge on May 25 sentenced the founder of the Oath Keepers militia group to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach, after a defiant Rhodes stood before him and insisted that he’s a “political prisoner.”
“For decades, Mr. Rhodes, it is clear you have wanted the democracy of this country to devolve into violence,” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee, told Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder.
