{"id":1547691,"date":"2022-07-10T21:49:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T01:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547691"},"modified":"2022-07-10T21:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T01:49:39","slug":"exclusive-oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes-wants-to-testify-live-challenge-j6-committees-pack-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes-wants-to-testify-live-challenge-j6-committees-pack-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Wants to Testify Live, Challenge J6 Committee\u2019s \u2018Pack of Lies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes-wants-to-testify-live-challenge-j6-committees-pack-of-lies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547691&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-oath-keepers\">Oath Keepers<\/a> founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III is challenging the House Jan. 6 Select Committee to let him testify on a live broadcast so he can pit the truth as he sees it against the committee\u2019s \u201cpack of lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic televised testimony, that\u2019s the only condition,\u201d Rhodes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were given a chance to give an opening statement, I\u2019m writing up what I would give them,\u201d Rhodes told The Epoch Times on July 10. \u201cIf they decline to accept my offer, I\u2019m going to go ahead and publish my opening statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes said he does not expect the committee to accept his offer because his appearance would be a free-wheeling discussion, not a scripted presentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should jump at the opportunity, but they won\u2019t because they don\u2019t want that,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat they want is what you\u2019ve seen, which is just a scripted, controlled, pre-screened show trial. They\u2019re only going to put people in front of the public that they know are going to say what they want them to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to push back,\u201d Rhodes said. \u201cI want to cut back against this false narrative. They don\u2019t want the truth. That\u2019s why they won\u2019t let me just get up there, unscreened, uncoached, and just answer[ing] questions because they don\u2019t want the truth out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they were concerned with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, they would welcome the opportunity to talk to me because I pled the Fifth on everything from election time on back in February. I answered no questions about anything after election night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Waive My Fifth Amendment Rights\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The Select Committee next meets on July 12 in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The panel might hold a prime-time hearing on July 14. It plans to cover the issue of domestic extremism and the roles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III is challenging the House Jan. 6 Select Committee to let him testify on a live broadcast so he can pit the truth as he sees it against the committee\u2019s \u201cpack of lies.\u201d \u201cPublic televised testimony, that\u2019s the only condition,\u201d Rhodes said. \u201cIf I were given a chance to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}