Breaking: Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes Sentenced To 18 Years Over Jan. 6
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday by a federal judge who also accepted a government recommendation to enhance the charge to “terrorism” in relation to his role in the January 6th debacle.
This is the longest Jan. 6 sentence thus far and the first case where a judge applied the government-recommended enhancement for terrorism.
The sentencing is the first successful seditious conspiracy conviction by an American jury since 1995.
Rhodes was accused by D.C. District Judge Amit Mehta of fomenting “revolution.”
“What we absolutely cannot have is a group…