Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in relation to the Jan. 6 riot, was in the Capitol complex on Wednesday to meet with GOP lawmakers —
The Oath Keepers founder met with Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida to lobby for a pardon for fellow Oath Keeper and January 6 rioter Jeremy Brown, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on weapons charges.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, one of the most infamous Capitol rioters, was spotted in a congressional office building on Wednesday, just days after being set free by President Trump.
Four years after they raided the Capitol and assaulted police officers, a group of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters are now free men.
At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
Oath Keepers' Rhodes, convicted of sedition for Jan. 6 attack, visits Capitol Hill after clemency and meets lawmakers.
An extremist group leader who orchestrated an assault on the U.S. Capitol four years ago defended his role in the attack as he returned to the scene of the crime on Wednesday, while judges who sentenced hundreds of
Federal judges criticized President Trump's pardons of over 1,500 individuals linked to the Capitol riot, including members of Proud Boys and Oath Kee
House gives final passage to immigrant detention bill, sending Trump the first law he can sign.
Trump ordered 1,500 more military personnel to the border with Mexico as part of a flurry of steps to tackle immigration.