{"id":1938806,"date":"2023-05-26T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oath-keepers-founder-given-longest-prison-sentence-of-any-jan-6-defendant-yet\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:27:29","slug":"oath-keepers-founder-given-longest-prison-sentence-of-any-jan-6-defendant-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oath-keepers-founder-given-longest-prison-sentence-of-any-jan-6-defendant-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 Defendant Receives Lengthiest Jail Term Among Oath Keepers Founder."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Foath-keepers-founder-given-longest-prison-sentence-of-any-jan-6-defendant-yet%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=1938806&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--><h2>Oath Keepers Founder Receives Longest Prison Sentence Yet for Jan. 6 Capitol Incursion<\/h2>\n<p>The founder of Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion, according to Politico. This is the longest sentence given to any defendant involved in the incident to date.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes is one of 14 Jan. 6 defendants to plead guilty to or be convicted of seditious conspiracy, and the first to be sentenced, as reported by Politico. Four members of the Proud Boys were also found guilty of the same charge in early May.<\/p>\n<p>During the sentencing, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta told Rhodes, &#8220;The moment you are released, whenever that may be, you will be ready to take up arms against your government,&#8221; according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors urged Mehta to hand Rhodes a minimum sentence of 25 years, arguing that he encouraged Oath Keepers members to assemble weapons that could be used in the city and prepare for violence if former President Donald Trump did not prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results, per Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta applied enhanced terrorism penalties to Rhodes, citing him as &#8220;an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and to the very fabric of our democracy,&#8221; according to Politico.<\/p>\n<h3>Rhodes&#8217; Defense<\/h3>\n<p>Prior to sentencing, Rhodes characterized himself as a &#8220;political prisoner,&#8221; likening his case to the former president&#8217;s and Kafka&#8217;s &#8220;The Trial&#8221; &#8211; maintaining that he did not intend to disrupt the transfer of power but was present in Washington as security for speakers at the rally and noting that he never entered the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mehta cited messages sent between Rhodes and other members of the group that were revealed during last fall&#8217;s trial to demonstrate he had plans to disrupt the transfer of power, including one sent two days before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oath-keepers-founder-given-longest-prison-sentence-of-any-jan-6-defendant-yet\/\" title=\"Jan. 6 Defendant Receives Lengthiest Jail Term Among Oath Keepers Founder.\">election telling members<\/a> to prepare for &#8220;civil war,&#8221; according to AP.<\/p>\n<h3>Disclaimer<\/h3>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-weighs-in-on-deadly-subway-clash-after-desantis-calls-marine-a-good-samaritan\/\" title=\"Trump Weighs In on Deadly Subway Clash After DeSantis Calls Marine a 'Good Samaritan'\">nonpartisan newswire service<\/a>, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter&#8217;s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oath-keepers-founder-given-longest-prison-sentence-jan-6-defendant-yet\/\">Oath Keepers Founder Given Longest Prison Sentence of Any Jan. 6 Defendant Yet<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, received the longest sentence to date for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison, making him the first of 14 defendants to plead guilty or be convicted of seditious conspiracy. Politico reported the news on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":1938807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[14827,4148,5471,6936,9137,27721,9138,8255,9095],"class_list":["post-1938806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-defendant","tag-founder","tag-jail","tag-jan","tag-keepers","tag-lengthiest","tag-oath","tag-receives","tag-term"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938806","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\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}