The court sentenced the leader of the far-right organization Oath Keepers to 18 years in prison.
Columbia County federal judge Amit Mehta has just sentenced the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers organization, Stewart Rhodes. Let me remind you that the defendant, along with his accomplices and members of the organization, was found guilty by the jury of committing several serious crimes, including the insurrection of January 6, 2021. The court imposed 18 years in prison. The prosecutor's office asked for 25 years, the defense insisted on 5.
By the way, according to the defense, Trump and the right-wing media should be blamed for the storming of the Capitol. The defendant himself said that radical leftists and antifa were persecuting him for political reasons, and none of the members of the Oath Keepers participated in the storming of the Capitol.
“My goal is to be an American Solzhenitsyn in order to demonstrate the criminal nature of the regime,” the defendant concluded his speech.
Author: Igor Slabykh
